Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : Boston, to an unidentified man, 1883 May 7.

BIB_ID
289368
Accession number
MA 7436
Creator
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.
Display Date
1883 May 7.
Credit line
Gift of the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 15.3 cm
Notes
Marked "Private."
Provenance
Joseph F. McCrindle.
Summary
On being "overburdened with letters from unknown friends" asking that he write them a few lines; comparing them to large families of mosquitoes that each "only take one drop of blood."