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 Harvard Law Review.

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Editorial Board,

George R. Nutter Editor-in-Chief.

Everett V. Abbot, Wilson G. Crosby,

George P. Furber, Treasurer, Otto R. Hansen,

Charles M. Ludden, Alfred E. McCordic,

Edward T. Sanford, Edward I. Smith,

Samuel H. Smith, Joseph Walker.

lo Tremont Street, Boston, April 2, 1888. Tb the Editors of the Harvard Law Review, Cambridge^ Mass: —

Gentlemen, — Mr. Justice John Lathrop of the Superior Court of Massachusetts recently discovered in a collection of old papers in his office in the Court House, in this city, some valuable and interesting documents and letters relating to the organization of a Harvard Law School Association in the year 1868, which he has very kindly placed in my hands to be preserved with the papers and records of the present Harvard Law School Association.

Among these papers is a printed circular containing an account of the formation of the Association of 1868, to which are appended the autograph signatures of two hundred and seventeen former members and students of the Harvard Law School, who subscribed to the con- stitution and united to form the Association.

Believing that this document will prove of great interest, not only to the survivors of the group of former members of the Law School who united to form this first Association of its Alumni, but also to all Har- vard Law School men now living who are members of, or interested in, the present Harvard Law School Association, I send you a copy of the circu- lar, and of the list of the original two hundred and seventeen subscribers, with the request and suggestion that they be printed in the pages of the Harvard Law Review.

The organization of the Association of 1868 was followed in the next year by a reunion of its members at a dinner at the Parker House, Boston, June 24, 1869, which was numerously attended. Among the distinguished guests present on that occasion who responded to toasts were : Hon. E. R. Hoar, Attorney-General of the United States ; Mr. Justice Horace Gray of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts ; Professor Theophilus Parsons of the Harvard I^w School ; Chief Justice Charles L. Bradley of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island ; Mr. Justice Storer of Ohio ; Mr. Justice Charles Devens of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts ; Mr. Justice John Wells of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts ; Professor James Russell Lowell.

How soon thereafter the Harvard Law School Association of 1868 ceased altogether to meet for any purpose, either of business or