Reel 5 includes drafts of Brandeis press releases on merger, as well as correspondence on that subject with the Public Franchise League of Boston, Roger Wolcott, Norman H. White, Charles S. Mellon, Norman Hapgood, Mark Sullivan, D. O. Ives, and Joseph B. Eastman. Reports and memoranda in opposition to a closer union of the Boston & Maine and the New Haven railroads and testimony generated in litigation against various railroads are also found. (Boxes NMF 1K, 1L-1/3a)