Weary : Boston : autograph poem signed, 1864 Feb. 17.

Record ID: 
101943
Accession number: 
MA 685.9
Author: 
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description: 
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.4 cm
Notes: 

Written on stationery embossed "21 Charles St."
Written for the Brooklyn and Long Island Fair in aid of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, at the request of an unidentifed woman.
Part of a collection of letters and manuscripts of Oliver Wendell Holmes. See collection record for MA 685 for more information.

Summary: 

A fair copy of the poem, signed and dated.

Provenance: 
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.