Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. (1841–1935), son and namesake of the well‐known writer and professor of medicine, was himself professor of law at Harvard, chief justice of the Massachusetts supreme court (1899–1902), and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1902–32). His writings include The Common Law (1881), Speeches (1891, 1913), and Collected Legal Papers (1920), all exhibiting his distinction of mind and liberal views. Felix Frankfurter wrote Mr. Justice Holmes and the Constitution (1927). Touched with Fire (1946) collects his Civil War diary and letters. His correspondence with Sir Frederick Pollock was published in 1941, and his letters to and from Harold J. Laski, in 1953. He is the subject of more popular treatment in Catherine Drinker Bowen's biography, Yankee from Olympus (1944), and Emmet Lavery's play The Magnificent Yankee (1946).