A Guide to the William James Stillman Collection
A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 7214
University of Virginia Library
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
Collection is open to research.
Use Restrictions
See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.
Preferred Citation
William James Stillman Collection, Accession 7214, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Acquisition Information
Purchase 1963 Feb 25
Funding Note
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- G. C. Cox
- John Holmes
- R. G. Tietze
- William James Stillman
- [John Clinton] Gray
Item Listing
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William James Stillman to Judge [John Clinton] GrayOct 15ALS, 4 p.
[Asks to be given privately his opinion on the legality of a decision by the State Department to deny United States citizens protection and passports after they have lived abroad for more than five years; explains he was issued a temporary passport by the Embassy in Rome under the condition that he declare his intention to return to the United States within a limited time; states that he knows other people with the same predicament, most of whom like himself are without the funds to make a case before the Supreme Court ; mentions mutual friends of the old "Adirondack set" John Holmes , Forbes, and Ward; says that he and the judge are the only ones of the set still living.]