(1888-1964) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, instrumental in securing the unanimous opinion of the court to strike down segregation in public schools in the case Brown v. Board of Education. A good group of six items in various formats, includes: an A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo., Washington, May 10, 1950, on Supreme Court letterhead to Andor and Mrs. Klay, sending friendly content; a S.P. 8 in. x 10 in. b/w, showing Burton in robes, signed at blank bottom margin; a T.L.S. 1p. 8vo., Washington, Apr. 9, 1955, on Supreme Court letterhead to Eisenhower’s atomic energy advisor Lewis L. Strauss, thanking him for ‘the Seventeenth Semiannual Report of the Atomic Energy Commission…’; a T.L.S. 1p. 4to., Washington, Apr. 2, 1957, on Supreme Court letterhead to Andor Klay sending thanks for a copy of his work ‘Daring Diplomacy’; a T.L.S. 1p. 8vo., Washington, Nov. 11, 1942, on Senate letterhead to Congressman Michael Kirwan, congratulating him upon his reelection; and a T.L.S. 1p. 4to., Washington, Dec. 4, 1950, on Supreme Court letterhead to the Foreign Student Summer Project, sending thanks for the report of their 1950 program at M.I.T. Together six pieces, very good.