Friday, June 12, 2015

Lousy correspondent

DEAREST TELLY FROM DAY TO DAY ONE THING OR ANOTHER PUTS ME OFF WRITING YOU I AM ASHAMED OF MYSELF . . . PAY NO ATTENTION TO MY SILENCE AND WRITE ME ALWAYS.

Felix Frankfurter, telegram to his sister, Estelle (Telly), Dec. 13, 1935
quoted in Harvard Law Bulletin, Summer 1999, at 32

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