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Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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families, whichwas never interrupted, although the chief justice removed his residencewithin a year or two to Rhode Island Avenue, and subsequently purchasedand took up his abode in the house of the sketch, in I Street, where hespent the remainder of his life. This was a veritable home, roomy, restful,with an air of substantial personal comfort, its appointments so tastefullyblended that no one feature fixed itself upon the mind ; a home in thehighest degree interesting from the fact that it seems in its refined sim-plicity to reflect the beautiful character of its distinguished occupant.It is a plain brick edifice, vine clad on its two sides, with bay windows infront, commanding a long stretch of street views, shaded by leafy trees.The library and study-room of the chief justice occupies the second floorin the rear. The entire walls to the ceiling are lined with books. Nearlyall that genius has created or industry achieved in the way of letters and CHIEF JUSTICE MORRISON REMICK WAITE
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THE LIBRARY OF CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE. legal lore has found its way to these shelves. The large library tablestrewed with papers in the centre of the room, remains just as he left it.The empty chair, as shown in the sketch, tells the touching story of anations loss. The little case of books to the left of the table belong tothe famous Bell telephone suit, to which the chief justice gave unremit-ting and severest study for months, improving the entire vacation of thecourt in the work. It is thought by many that application to this casewas the stroke of overwork that caused his death. The last public act ofhis life, as is well known, was to render his important decision on thevalidity of the Bell telephone patents. It was the custom of the chief justice to rise at a very early hour everymorning, and, with a simple cup of coffee served in his study, devote atleast two or three hours to his work before the family breakfast at nineoclock. It was thus he secured the quiet needful for continuit

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