Felix Frankfurter Typed Letter Signed.

Rare typed letter signed by Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter. One page, typescript on Frankfurter's Supreme Court letterhead, the letter is dated May 2, 1940 and reads, 'Dear Judge McAllister: These are indeed grim days. Only the compulsions of duty and the enticements of the imagination can take one’s thoughts from the awful implications of events abroad. Your letter has afforded me one of these diversions because I have been caught up in your own excitement over your study of Henry II. Of course you must do that and nothing else. After all, if it be true, as I believe it to be, that the great achievements of civilization are in the balance, then that kind of imaginative interpretation, that insight into the past which you so superbly outline in your conception of Henry II must not only be fought for but cherished and pursued in the way in which you are planning to pursue it. I am sorry you were ill when you were down here and I count on seeing you when you turn up again. With every good wish, Sincerely yours, "Felix Frankfurter."' The recipient, Thomas F. McAllister served as a justice on the Michigan Supreme Court from 1938 to 1941 prior to his appointment as a judge to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In near fine condition.