BIB_ID
101290
Accession number
MA 574.15
Creator
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.
Display Date
1878 Sept. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 9 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters and manuscripts of Oliver Wendell Holmes. See collection record for MA 574 for more information.
Signed "O.W. Holmes."
Signed "O.W. Holmes."
Provenance
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
Noting that the Q.B.K. (i.e., Phi Betta Kappa) speeches are never recorded and that the meetings are always private, but reporting that the recent speech was greeted with "great applause."
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