William James Stillman to Judge [John Clinton] Gray

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4 p.

Scope and content:

[Asks to be given privately his opinion on the legality of a decision by the State Departmentto deny United Statescitizens protection and passports after they have lived abroad for more than five years; explains he was issued a temporary passport by the Embassy in Romeunder the condition that he declare his intention to return to the United Stateswithin 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.]

Names:

State Department
Supreme Court
William James Stillman
[John Clinton] Gray
John Holmes

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