Correspondence dated 20 December 1950

Summary

An item from the surviving correspondence of William John Sands.

Historical context

This item forms part of the surviving William John Sands correspondence and is dated 20 December 1950. It is preserved in the William John Sands Family Archive as evidence of Sands’s professional work and relationships. The accompanying transcript was produced by machine OCR and should be checked against the original scan before being treated as a definitive reading.

Catalogue description

Original correspondence scan imported from the Sands and Ferguson family archive. Source file: 19501220.jpg.

Machine transcript — unreviewed

oy CRAVATH, SWAINE & MOORE , —_ 4 THAN SPoRTATION @MicoING 15 BROAD STREET WASHINGTON 1c. New YorK S , New YORK December 20, 1950 Dear Mr. Sands: We were all pleased to receive your Christmas card and wish that we had an opportunity to get away for a week or two to hunt the ducks so attractively portrayed on your eard. After leaving Belfast Dorothy and I went to Edinburgh for two very pleasant days away from documents and deposi- tions. We then spent a pleasant but rather arduous week outside Coventry examining, among others, Sir John Black and Chambers. The examination of Chambers continued in London contemporaneously with Mr. Seymour's examination of Ferguson, and we concluded but a few hours before we had to catch the Queen Mary for the United States. Our return ocean voyage was unexciting until the last few hours, when we ran briefly into a hurricane which gave Dorothy a chance to discover whether her sailing ability had improved since the short crossing from Belfast to Scotland, which had caused her some discomfort. Since our return we have been engaged in the custo- mary round of depositions, which are now nearly at an end. A trial judge was appointed on Friday, and it now appears likely that we will go to trial perhaps as early as the beginning of February. However, it is a little early to make any guess as to the precise trial date or as to the schedule which will be followed after the trial begins. Dorothy and I were delighted to have the opportu- nity of seeing you, and our all too brief visit with you, Meta and Molly is one of the most pleasant of our many Pleasant memories of our trip. We wish that there had been more time available, but the schedule we had to follow in Belfast was not made any easier by the production there of approximately 25,000 documents from the Fitzpatrick files which I had been asking to have produced for more than a year. I have been reading microfilms of those documents