Reel 8 contains correspondence, news clippings, reports, and speeches on controversial topics such as the proposed construction of the Washington Street Subway, Boston's Public Schools, and anti-bribery laws. Brandeis' behind the scenes role in preparing the miners' case before the Coal Strike Commission in 1902 is also documented. Correspondents include Morton Prince, Albert E. Pillsbury, A. Lawrence Lowell, Edward A. Adler, Clarence S. Darrow, Henry Demarest Lloyd and Boston mayors Patrick A. Collins and Thomas N. Hart. (Boxes NMF 2-2/5, 3, 4, 5-1a)
Box 3, folder 1 and Box 4, folder 4 containing news clippings were not filmed.
