BIB_ID
289366
Accession number
MA 7435
Creator
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.
Display Date
1883 Dec. 24.
Credit line
Gift of the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.6 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope addressed to Stedman in New York, N.Y.
On letterhead from 296 Beacon Street, dated "Christmas Eve."
On letterhead from 296 Beacon Street, dated "Christmas Eve."
Provenance
Joseph F. McCrindle.
Summary
Regarding his poem "on the cast of Lincoln's hand," published in "The independent," that he finds to be very good, "free from these rhyming and rhetorical tricks which the versifying confectioners are working their spun sugar artifices in ..."
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