March 28, 1917 - I had a pippin of a brief prepared, that hit the case squarely in the kisser.

Joe is keeping Helen in his court case loop. Guess he wanted her to know that she was marrying a man that was heading for success.

Wednesday

My darling,

The sun this morning looked remarkably good alongside of that rain storm of the evening before. And your letters added a ray of sunshine in addition.

You know Charles and Stella are to be in New York Saturday, and while Charles attended the Bnai Brith meeting Saturday night; it was my idea that we could take Stella to a regular show, and later get a regular "after theatre dinner".

But I am just as delighted to go to "Dels" if you desire it and will see Stella tonight maybe and try and make other arrangements, unless she also wishes to go to the dance or whatever it is. I'll let you know. I'm going to Shelton this afternoon, guess what for.
I tried a very pretty case yesterday. Mayor Kneen was my client, and we had a perfect claim. Luckily too, our witnesses were fine people, who told  clear cut, straightforward, truthful stories, and were not even contradicted nor questioned. It then only became a question of the application of law to those facts.

Having spent considerable time on it, I had a pippin of a brief prepared, that hit the case squarely in the kisser. And I had several cases reserved, so that when my adversary made his argument and claims, I read these to knock a big whole into the argument. Say, girlie, you should have seen Mr. Kneen been as I made my points counts. When it was all over, he was happier than I. You see he was the man responsible in part for my position and when he appointed me as Corporation Counsel, I was told that he told some aspirant that  "there wasn't another fellow around in it with Joe; if there was only a ghost of a chance to win".

So with love and kisses and sympathy for your ma and of course love too,

I am Your
Joe

Next letter is March 30