"A - Correspondence." Miscellaneous correspondence., 1971-1980

In a group of pamphlets from James Luther Adams is a copy of a letter from Oliver Wendell Holmes addressed to Judge Wyzanski in response to the latter's request that Holmes summarize his beliefs in the motives of the legal profession (September 9, 1937). Professor Konvitz mentions in a letter to Chimon Abramsky that he no longer subscribes to the New York Review of Books because he "got a little tired of its dogmatic Leftism, and of the control that Noam Chomsky and I.F. Stone seemed to have over who writes what," (November 1, 1974). Konvitz wrote to congratulate the Honorable Shimon Agranat, Chief Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court, on retiring. Konvitz draws a comparison between the Courts of Israel and the United States and compliments Agranat on a significant role in the formation of the Israeli Court (September 20, 1976). In a letter to Professor Sydney E. Ahlstrom, Yale University, Doctor Konvitz requests references to sources which discuss the influence of Emerson on Friedrich W. Nietzsche and mentions Emerson's influence on his own world view (June 2, 1978). Personal letter from Konvitz to Mister Gershon Jacobson and Mister Nissan Gordon regarding Konvitz's reasons for not renewing his subscription to the Algemeine Journal. Doctor Konvitz explains that although he was "brought up" with a respect and even love for Yiddish newspapers, he found the Algemeine to be too narrow, "not Jewish but rabbinical and clerical, and even the rabbinism that it cultivates is limited to that which characterizes a part of Brooklyn and the Lower East Side," (July 5, 1975).