ASSOCIATE JUSTICE FELIX FRANKFURTER - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED - HFSID 88906

FELIX FRANKFURTER
Frankfurter handwrote and signed this letter to Charlotte Rudyard in 1915, asking her to "Please lift the veil of anonynity" on three things he read.
Autograph note signed: "F. F.", 1 page, 5x6¼ (folded). Dated: "Friday".In full: "CR There is sprightliness in this number and good writing, and some ideas. Please lift the veil of anony-nity and reveal 1 - the author of The Chances it is Alvin J. 2 - the anti-storker. It is our baby editor or W. [illegible] or - who? And 3 - Is Facultas Bourne Greetings". Post script: "My crop of boys is here again". Lightly toned and creased. Folded once and unfolded. Otherwise, fine condition. Accompanied by: Original mailing envelope. Addressed by Felix Frankfurter: "Miss/Charlotte Rudyard/421 West 21th/New York City". Postmarked Cambridge, Massachusetts, Sept. 24, 1915. With one 2¢ red-and-white stamp affixed. Lightly toned, soiled and creased. Flap was neatly torn open with paper loss. Otherwise, fine condition. A renowned legal scholar, Frankfurter (1882-1965, born in Vienna, Austria) influenced Supreme Court decisions for more than 20 years (1939-1962). A former advisor to the NAACP and co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, Frankfurter had affirmed that any form of discrimination against Blacks violated the 15th Amendment (Lane vs. Wilson,1939). Believing that the Court should not interfere with laws established by the people's elected officials, he upheld President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal legislation. In the realm of civil liberties, Frankfurter would play a pivotal role in deciding the famous school desegregation case Brown vs. the Board of Education (1954), ensuring its historic importance by securing a unanimous decision. He dissented when the Court overturned Minersville West Virginia State Board of Education vs. Barnette(1943) and when it ruled in favor of legislative reapportionment (Baker vs. Carr, 1962), which he felt was strictly a political problem to be solved by the legislature, not the judiciary. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the staunch advocate of judicial self-restraint stabilized the liberal Earl Warren Court and promoted "procedural fairness" in criminal cases. Frankfurter was presented the Medal of Freedom by John F. Kennedy in 1963. Two items.