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Hymn for the class meeting of 1869 : poem signed with initials, 1869 Jan. 6.

BIB_ID
297848
Accession number
MA 797.2
Creator
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.
Display Date
1869 Jan. 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 20.1 cm
Notes
According to notes on the accompanying envelope, this is the thirteenth of 13 copies numbered and initialed by Holmes.
Part of a collection of two poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes. See collection record for MA 797 for more detail.
Printed in Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1872), p. 129-130.
Provenance
From the Harvard Library; J. Chester Chamberlain; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan, possibly from the dealer A.H. Hahlo in 1912.
Summary
A printed copy of the poem, numbered 13 by Holmes and signed "O.W.H."