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The autocrat of the breakfast table : every man his own Boswell : autograph manuscript of parts 4-12, 1857-1859.

BIB_ID
101169
Accession number
MA 193
Creator
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.
Display Date
1857-1859.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (306 p.) ; 31.6 cm
Notes
On p. 129, The title The Anatomist's Hymn has been changed to The Living Temple. Parson Turell's legacy, or; The President's old arm-chair, a mathematical story (p. 284) is an amplification of The President's old arm-chair, or Prelude.
Parts 1-3 are lacking in this manuscript owing to the physical incapacity of Holmes to copy them out (see accompanying letters). The Autocrat's Autobiography dated Boston, November 1, 1858 written for the 1858 edition, The Preface to the new and revised edition, 1883, dated Beverly Farms, Mass. August 29, 1882, and Parson Turell's Legacy, were re-copied by Dr. Holmes in December 1891 by request.
Summary
A fair copy.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (34.9 cm)