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A Secretary's Absence For A Law School Examination, Todd C. Peppers
A Secretary's Absence For A Law School Examination, Todd C. Peppers
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The May 5, 1893 letter from Justice Horace Gray to Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller touches upon several different strands of Supreme Court history. To place the letter in context, we need to briefly discuss the creation of the law clerk position as well as the different functions of this first generation of law clerks. And we need to talk about the untimely death of a young Harvard Law School graduate named Moses Day Kimball.