1. Taft papers) ("I have been doing what I could to bring about the selection of Gus Hand as your colleague. I wrote the President. I stirred up Stone and he went to see the President. I wrote George Wickersham, and he has written a letter. I wrote Hughes and asked him to write a letter, and I wrote to Hilles and asked him to write a letter. The latter was for the purpose of taking care of the political end. Stone had an interview with the President yesterday;Hand;Letter from WHT to Charles Evans Hughes,1926
2. Taft papers) ("I felicitate you on the prospect of a long, useful, judicial life, and I don't think that one can lead any life that can be more satisfactory than it;Augustus N Hand;I must face the fact that it is more important what Hilles thinks in this matter than what I think,1926
3. I am inclined to press Swan for Rogers' place and then have the President put up Gus Hand for the new Circuit Judgeship that I hope we can get;Letter from WHT to Learned Hand,1926
4. Taft papers) ("I shall bear in mind all of the fine things you say of Dean Swan. It was a genuine pleasure to see you looking so well;Letter From Calvin Coolidge;Letter from Thomas W. Swan to WHT,1926
5. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes was moved to remark that "[i]t is no disparagement of this new enterprise to say that we shall leave that historic room with keen regret. In its dignity, in its simplicity, in its priceless memories as the former Senate chambers and for upwards of seventy years the seat of the Court, that room has no rival. It will be long, indeed, before this beautiful building can boast of the spiritual endowment which has blessed the old home;Ct Sup;A.B.A. J,1925