OFFICERS
Chief Justice
Warren E. Burger, Honorary Chairman
Robert T.
Stevens, Chairman
Elizabeth
Hughes Gossett, President
William
F. Swindler, Editor
Jeffrey
B. Morris, Associate Editor
Mary Beth
O'Brien, Assistant Editor
INTRODUCTION
Judging
from the many comments we have received, our YEARBOOK
continues to be a journal not only of immense interest
to our members, but a publication worthy of reference
by future historians.
This year
an exciting discovery has been made, and we are pleased
to reproduce it in this issue. Lying unobtrusively in
the files of the Supreme Court library was found a long
and interesting letter from the future Chief Justice
John Jay to a friend in England, written in his own
hand.
One wonders
how many other rare and valuable items may be awaiting
discovery, and whether this provides another of the
many reasons for our existence and the need for continuing
and broadening support of the Society's activities.
Elizabeth
Hughes Gossett
President
The
Supreme Court Historical Society - BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Chief
Justice Warren E. Burger,
Honorary
Chairman
Robert
T. Stevens, Chairman
Elizabeth
Hughes Gossett, President
Vice-Presidents
- Earl W. Kintner, Whitney North Seymour William
P. Rogers, Fred M. Vinson, Jr.
Mrs.
Hugo L. Black, Secretary
Vincent
C. Burke, Jr., Treasurer
Mrs. David
Acheson, David L. Kreeger, Ralph B. Becker, Sol. M.
Linowitz, Herbert Brownell, Richard A. Moore, Gwendolyn
D. Cafritz, David A. Morse, Howland Chase, Alice L.
O'Donnell, William T. Coleman, Jr. , Melvin M. Payne,
Charles T. Duncan, Harvey T. Reid, Patricia Collins
Dwinnell, Fred Schwengel, Newell W. Ellison, Bernard
G. Segal, Paul A. Freund, Lauson Stone, Erwin N. Griswold,
William F. Swindler, Lita Annenberg Hazen, Obert C.
Tanner, Joseph H. Hennage, Hobart Taylor, Jr., Linwood
Holton, Mrs. Earl Warren, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach,
J. Albert Woll, Francis R. Kirkham
William
H. Press, Executive Director
Copyright,
1978, by the Supreme Court Historical Society, Suite
612, 1511 K Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 20005.
