ABSTRACT
All over Boston are boxes of Sacco-Vanzetti papers, some in the many universities, some in public libraries, others jealously or generously kept by individuals. Much of what could be found covers ground which is only too familiar; or it concentrates on fine legal detail. If ever there was a lawyer's case in a lawyers' city, it was this. Other brown beribboned boxes conceal memorabilia - Defense Committee leaflets, contemporary photographs, autographed letters, telegrams of support, as if everyone who lived through or close to this moment in American history felt the need to leave some footprint in the sand, or some treasure trove beneath.
