"Dear Carson, I never heard a more powerful speech nor a more searching crossXam. I congratulate you on having escaped most of the filth. Yrs ever, R. Henn Collins."
— Edward Carson

January 1, 1970

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Note passed by Mr Justice Henn Collins to Carson at the end of the Queensberry libel trial, quoted in Merlin Holland, "The Irish Peacock and the Scarlet Marquess" (4th Estate, 2002), p. xxx.