In 1911 he had two articles on airship law in foreign journals ("Revue de l'Institut de Droit Comparé" and "Zeitschrift für Völkerrecht und Bundesstaatsrecht"). Notwithstanding his work in many fields, his real interest was always in modern law. He has been called an antiquarian, but his studies in this line did not go beyond colonial history, more particularly Connecticut history. Few men have played a more important part in so many activities that concerned their own community. When he was presented for the degree of LL.D. at the Yale Commencement in 1916 he was called, inter alia, ""the first citizen of Connecticut."" No designation could have fitted him better. ―George Edward Woodbine