Note 13 — Chapter IV · ROMAN HOLIDAY

Conspicuous among friends who were not only loyal over many years to the condemned men but who also understood many of the forces at work in this inversion of so-called justice were Alice Stone Blackwell, Mrs. Cerise Jack, Sacco’s teacher of English; Amleto Fabbri, Secretary of the Defense Committee, 1924-’26; Mrs. Gertrude L. Winslow, Leonard Abbott, Roscoe Pound, Francis H. Bigelow, Mrs. Elsie Hillsmith; Mrs. Virginia MacMechan, Vanzetti’s teacher during six years of his imprisonment; Maude Pettyjohn, Mrs. E. A. Codman, and H. W. L. Dana. For letters to these and others among the greatest friends of the condemned men, vide “The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti,” edited by Marion Denman Frankfurter and Gardner Jackson, The Viking Press.