Reel 4 continues with material related to Brandeis' opposition to the merger of the Boston & Maine/New Haven railroads. Included are financial reports of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, press releases, correspondence in 1908 with Harry B. Needham, Charles H. Jones, and William Z. Ripley, and drafts of speeches prepared for the New England Dry Goods Association and the Cambridge Citizens Trade Association by Brandeis, Charles F. Choate, Jr., and John Higgins. Memoranda, drafts of proposed legislation, Brandeis' letters to influential Boston clergymen soliciting their support and tally sheets of potential votes by Massachusetts legislators on anti-merger bills are also found. (Boxes NMF 1G-2, 1H, 1I, 1J )
