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10/20/1938 - First Term Program: Roman Law, Jurisprudence; Leisure Time Readings by Thomas L. Blakemore

TLB WSR Trinity Hall Cambridge England October Dear Mr Rogers As refreshing theselast three months vacationing still feeling relief I settle routine study Tending ofthe immediate present leaves abstract speculations ultimate future I relish thought uninterrupted months these inspiring surroundings My legal activities first centered chiefly Roman Law since common source European legal systems knowledge prerequisite study Comparative Lav Obviously I spend years Cambridge undergr8duate lawyers I hardly could separation nonessentials Therefore I receiving private instructions Dr Lipstein German re_search professor field associate Professor Guttridge stressing those elements which important We following textbook after giving outlines suggests certain supplementary readings occasionly advance assignment frequent references Jolowicz Historical Introduct Roman Law League Roman Private Hunter Introduction Roman Law bsckground I reading unroe Smith The Development European Law volume Continental Legal History Series entitled The General Survey Events Sources Persons ovemeuts Within I begin other legal readings history theory Jurisprudence under Professor Gutteridge supervision wherein assigns certain materis andffrom short essays effort estimate extent deficiencies Our initial ction Pound Introduction Philosophy after iscuss certain designated sections Holdsvorth History nglish Law Also I weekly meetings Comparative Law seminar absorb I It quite agreed efforts ought confine I commencing collateral leisure readings outlined Professor Rheinstein Univer Chicago widely varied consisting histories books Japan economic religious philosophic treatises certain classics which hitherto touched shelves I starting slowly these avoid confusion oresent doing stick ocrates arguments third Y Republic In language there problems which I Should advice You recall plans immediate beginning Japanese preferably Cambridge I could competent instruction commuting several times School Oriental Studies London It seems modification these plans Would desirable least Professor Gutteridge thinks reading knowledge German Something which I ntirely essential routine study Japanese opinion voiced Professor Rheinstein It absolute esseutial sense Japanese language without probably could learn something since modern Japanese almost wholesale adoption German references parent decisions interpreting bound Courts instructors therefore Professor Gutteridge feels intellectua equipment incomplete without I start Orient I rluctant addition already musts while probably wouldn offer mountainous resistance Japanese still German anything molehill However recommendation unequivocally Professors Rheinstein Gutteridge secondithem shall legist possible suffering If decide I should learn German question Jhen I begin My every inclination Japanese earliest possible moment I years intensive study store I working knowledge classic colloquial language Yet without single exception every advisor warned troubles difficulties ahead attempt tongues though differ widely structure deference advice I think I should these For several reasons Professor Gutteridge thinks would satisfactory coLmence German instead Japanese Facilities learning German Euch better Japan there would confusion sttached present disposition after I startad Japanese language potential unknova thinks short intensive course until December vacation spent language school Berlin Switzerland might suffice Also tutor searched Vain Japanese instruction campus almost certain I should commute London thing which should avoid present He feels which I reasonably Japanese training England working basis Upon which start grind islands themselves thinks months English teaching great Finally epresses belief basic training Comparative Law Cambridge which means I still might apanese while In event start Upon either language until I Roman Law other studies I shall await expression before proceeding Sincerely