Correspondence dated 7 January 1952

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 7 January 1952. 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: 19520107.jpg.

Machine transcript — unreviewed

CRAVATH, SWAINE & MOGRE IS BROAD STREET™ New York 5 New YoRK “January 1, 1952 & Dear Mr. Sands: y Dorothy and I were delighted with the calendar and the wonderful picture of the Mourne Mountains "running down to the sea". We had spent a memorable Sunday to- gether at that very spot, and the picture brought back pleasant recollections of a delightful day. We have often talked of our delightful introduction to Northern Ireland which, apart from the dreary hours of preparing for and taking of depositions, has given us so many pleasant memories, principal among which are the pleasant afternoon we spent with you and your daughters, the lovely sight of the Northern Ireland coast in the early morning mist on our placid trip across the Irish Sea and the Sunday at the spot so well pictured on the calendar, which is now in the process of being framed. Ialso express for your many friends at our office our delight in receiving your Christmas card, which has been circulated to Bromley, O'Donnell, O'Connell, Kubiniec and Borker and your other companions at sandwich luncheons. We have, as you may have learned, been trying the case off and on since March 26. The first witness was Malvitz, who! confined himself principally to describing for the Court's benefit the types of implements and tractors with which the case was concerned. We then had a long session of D'Angelo, whose cross-examination was not completed until late in the fall, and we are now hearing a little bit about distributors and dealers. We have unfortunately not come to that part of the case which most interests Judge Bromley and me, the patent and technical phases, although there have been brief excursions into it by Judge Bromley, who cannot restrain his