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What would Ralph say?(Ralph Sharp Brown, Intellectual Property, and the Public Interest)(Brief Article)

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From: Yale Law Journal
Date: 19990501
Author:Ryden, John G.

Ralph Brown had "a long love affair" with Yale University Press. Those aren't my words, they're Betty Brown's. They explain why it was his wish that we meet here today to remember him. The "affair" began when Ralph was in his early twenties and lasted for the rest of his long and full life.

To earn the money for his tuition at Yale Law School, Ralph worked on the Yale edition of Horace Walpole's Letters, a vast undertaking that took half a century and forty-eight volumes to complete, all made possible by the splendid beneficence of Wilmarth "Lefty" Lewis. At the Walpole ...

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