OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES SR. - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 02/14/1859 - HFSID 31987
Sale Price $395.00
Reg. $480.00
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. Autograph Letter signed: "O. W.
Holmes", 5x8. Boston, Massachusetts, 1859 February 14. To "Dear
Miss Rebecca". In full: "It gives me pleasure to comply with your
slight request. Yours very truly." Slightly soiled. Horizontal fold crosses
signature. Otherwise, fine condition. Accompanied by Autograph Envelope
(5½x3) addressed in Holmes' hand to "Miss Rebecca T. Bailey/Flushing/Belmont
Co./Ohio", postmarked Boston, February 14, 1889. Foxed and lightly soiled.
¼-inch tear at center of bottom edge. 3x1-inch paper loss on back of
envelope.Physician and author Holmes (1809-1894) is best known for
his poems "Old Ironsides" (1830) and "The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay" (1858), and
for his urbane Breakfast-Table sketches, the latter first
appearing in 1857 in the "Atlantic Monthly" (which he had named). He was the
first Dean of Harvard Medical School. His son and namesake was a
distinguished Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Two
items.
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