successor as solicitor general, John W. Davis. Often critical of Carnegie, he was one of the most vociferous regarding Alger Hiss, first because of the irregular procedure in accepting Hiss and president and then after following HUAC hearings in August 1948. During late November and early December 1948, he wrote a "Factual Review of the Whittaker Chambers-Alger Hiss Controversy," which he soon after had published. With this review, he voted on December 13, 1948, that the trustees accept Hiss's resignation as president but accepted the board's majority vote for leave of absence without pay. Bullitt then attended both trials of Hiss during 1949 and provided Federal prosecutor Thomas Murphy with his review as a legal aid. Personal life Bullitt was known to be a very slight man who one Kentuckian remarked could "talk faster than any man in Kentucky." He was a noted collector of rare mathematics texts. Following a discussion with his friend G. H. Hardy, Bullitt set out to obtain first-edition works by what he considered the twenty-five greatest mathematicians of all time. Following his death, this collection, which grew to include at least 300 volumes by at least sixty different mathematicians, was donated to the University of Louisville. Among the texts in the collection are works by Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, René Descartes, Galileo, Copernicus, Euclid, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Leonhard Euler, and Gottfried Leibniz. In November 1956, thieves cracked a wall safe in his Oxmoor home. Police estimated the amount of valuables taken as high as $250,000, of which $77,000 was recovered by the time Bullitt died a year later. Death Bullitt died on October 3, 1957, of a heart attack at the age of 84. Bullitt was buried at Oxmoor Cemetery in Kentucky. Impact Bullitt argued more than fifty cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, some of which were argued while serving as Solicitor General of the United States. Publications The following publications appear in two listings in the Library of Congress online catalog: Civil and Criminal Codes of Practice of Kentucky and Amendments Enacted Prior to 1899 (1899) Civil and Criminal Codes of Practice of Kentucky (1902) Louisville Election Contest Cases (1907) The Relation of the Individual Policyholder to the Resources of a Mutual Life Insurance Company (1914) The Supreme Court of the United States and Unconstitutional Legislation (1924) Opinion of Wm. Marshall Bullitt Upon the Disputed Claims between Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Ltd.,