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JOSEPH STORY (1779-1845) Associate Justice U.S. Supreme Court. ALS, as Supreme Court justice, 1p,...

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JOSEPH STORY (1779-1845) Associate Justice U.S. Supreme Court. ALS, as Supreme Court justice, 1p,...
JOSEPH STORY (1779-1845) Associate Justice U.S. Supreme Court. ALS, as Supreme Court justice, 1p, Aug 13, 1816, 4to, Salem, Mass, to Henry A S Dearborn (1783-1851), who had served as a Brigadier General and guarded Boston Harbor during War of 1812, good content. In part, "...I received your translation of the French Treatise on Pastel...my duty to acknowledge...my obligation to you for your kind & valuable present - The translation does equal honor to your judgement industry & patriotism; & entitles you to the warm thanks of all who feel interested in the agricultural & manufacturing establishments of our country. Real independence is to be acquired only by endeavoring to cultivate within ourselves as far as we can the arts of peace & the arts of war..." With attached integral leaf, with lengthy docket by Dearborn. Letter was written the same year as Story's historical opinion in Martin vs Hunter's Lessee, which has been called the keystone of the arch of federal judicial power, holding as it did that appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court could rightfully be exercised over state courts. VG. $600-800