BIB_ID
101283
Accession number
MA 574.8
Creator
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.
Display Date
1875 Dec. 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 14.9 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters and manuscripts of Oliver Wendell Holmes. See collection record for MA 574 for more information.
Possibly written to Holmes's publisher James R. Osgood (of Fields, Osgood, & Company).
Signed "O.W. Holmes" and written from "296 Beacon St."
Possibly written to Holmes's publisher James R. Osgood (of Fields, Osgood, & Company).
Signed "O.W. Holmes" and written from "296 Beacon St."
Provenance
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
Concerning a projected republication of his poem "The Chambered Nautilus" by Miss Ida M. Eliot of New Bedford, who wishes to include the poem in a collection for schools.
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