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51 Am. J. Legal Hist. 395 (2011)
The Correspondence of Henry Friendly and Richard A. Posner 1982-86

handle is hein.journals/amhist51 and id is 403 raw text is: In his warm tribute to Henry Friendly (1903-1983) in the Har- vard Law Review, Richard Posner (1939- ) tantalizingly men- tions that he had a correspondence with Friendly that had started when he was appointed to the Seventh Circuit in 1981, that he saw Friendly frequently during the 1982-86 period in what he describes as a blossoming friendship, and that he spent an afternoon with Friendly shortly before his death.' News that the great men corre- sponded and frequently saw each makes anyone interested in the federal courts, in judging, and in the intellectual life want to know more. After all, Friendly was the most influential circuit court judge of his generation in the same way that Posner is the most influential circuit court judge of his.2 Luckily, Friendly archived his correspon- dence with Posner, so that now, with the opening of the Friendly Papers at the Harvard Law School,' we can witness an unparalleled event in the history of American law. * Federal court practitioner. J.D., University of Connecticut School of Law; Ph.D., University of California, Riverside. Author of In the Opinion of the Court (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996; The Great Justices 1941-54: Black, Douglas, Frankfurter, and Jackson in Chambers (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006); and Federal Judges Revealed (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). 1 Richard A. Posner, In Memoriam: Henry J. Friendly, 99 Harv. L. Rev. 1724 (1986). 2 Friendly and Posner have been cited by name by the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals, and the U.S. Districts Court more often by far than any other circuit court judges. 3 Henry Jacob Friendly Papers, Harvard Law School Library, Harvard University, Series VI Correspondence Files, 1965-1986, Subseries B, 221-7, Friendly-Posner Correspondence 1982-1986. The correspondence file contains 62 letters. There are approximately 106 pages of letters making up approximately fifteen thousand words. With the exception of Friendly handwritten letter of August 28, 1983, all of the letters are typewritten. Internal references indicate that four letters are miss- ing from the archive. Reference to the letters will be to Friendly to Posner and Posner to Friendly, followed by the date of the letter in the archive.

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