DEAR MISS MANNERS: Please tell me the proper way of addressing an envelope to a Supreme Court justice and his or her spouse.
GENTLE READER: These questions did not arrive at the same time, but Miss Manners is gratified to know that citizens are addressing their government leaders respectfully, whatever it is that they intend to say.
Allowing for spousal titles or different surnames when applicable, Supreme Court justices and their spouses are addressed as:
“Justice Fairman and Mrs. Fairman” or “Justice Wisdom and Mr. Wisdom.”