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Howe was deeply rooted in his native New England. His father, Mark A. DeWolfe Howe, was not a native of Boston (his father, also Mark A. DeWolfe Howe, had been Bishop of Central Pennsylvania in the Protestant Episcopal Church), but he came to be the Bostonian of Bostonians, historian of...
Upon his graduation in 1933, his life took a turn that was to have a lasting effect on his career. The late Mr. Justice Frankfurter, then still in his professorial chair at the Law School, selected Howe to be secretary to Holmes. Similar to Holmes in background--both men had...
After his clerkship with Holmes, Howe entered private practice in Boston with the firm of Hill, Barlow & Homans. After a few years he left, in 1937, to become professor at the University of Buffalo Law School. He became Dean there in 1939, already at work on Holmes' papers.
In 1941 he published Holmes' correspondence with Sir Frederick Pollock. That edition, like Howe's later editions of Holmes' Civil War letters and his correspondence with Harold Laski, was notable for the unobtrusively informative notes with which Howe outfitted his text. Scarcely a book was so obscure or a person...
It was not until later, after service in World War II -- during which Howe recevied the Legion of Merit and the Distinguished Service Medal -- and joining the Harvard law faculty, that Howe's work on Holmes enabled him to display the full range of his talents.