BIB_ID
101998
Accession number
MA 685.2
Creator
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.
Display Date
ca. 1879 Jan. 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 24.8 cm
Notes
Docket with title and date, and with a note erroneously indicating that the manuscript is in Holmes's autograph.
Part of a collection of letters and manuscripts of Oliver Wendell Holmes. See collection record for MA 685 for more information.
Printed exactly in The Life, Travels, and Literary Career of Bayard Taylor preceded by the note "Dr. Holmes's address was nearly as follows."
Part of a collection of letters and manuscripts of Oliver Wendell Holmes. See collection record for MA 685 for more information.
Printed exactly in The Life, Travels, and Literary Career of Bayard Taylor preceded by the note "Dr. Holmes's address was nearly as follows."
Provenance
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
A fair copy of a speech by Holmes eulogizing Bayard Taylor, which was given at the Tremont Temple in Boston on 10 January 1879.
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