BIB_ID
288292
Accession number
MA 574.1-26
Creator
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.
Display Date
1854-1893.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 v. (26 items), bound ; 29.5 cm
Provenance
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
Collection consists of 13 autograph letters signed; 1 humorous "Letter from a Man to a Woman;" autograph manuscript fragments of 4 poems by Holmes; and 1 printed proof (with autograph revisions) of a biographical sketch. Letters and manuscripts within the collection are describedied individually in 20 catalog records (MA 574.1-20). With 6 portraits.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (32.8 cm)
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