Papers, 1745-1938.

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Papers, 1745-1938.

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Consists of correspondence of Edward Jackson Holmes and other members of the Holmes family, including Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Abiel Holmes, and John Holmes. Includes 72 letters, 1886, accepting or declining invitation to a reception given in London by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and his daughter Mrs. Turner Sargent. Also includes diary, 1886, of Amelia Jackson Holmes Sargent; diary, 1896, of Edward Jackson Holmes; address and engagement books, 1886, of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.; manuscripts of writings by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and others; and Jacob Wendell's account book, 1748-1750, of the committee for rebuilding Boston Court House.

4 boxes (2 linear ft.)

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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Holmes (Harvard, M.D. 1836) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, dean of the Medical School from 1847 to 1853, and a noted essayist and poet. A paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, presented at an 1843 meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, was his most famous contribution to medicine. His indictment of physicians for their role in causing and spreading the fever was one of the most controversial treatises of the time...

Holmes, John, 1812-1899

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Holmes family.

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Holmes, Edward Jackson, 1873-1950.

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Sargent, Amelia Jackson Holmes, 1843-1889

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Holmes, Abiel, 1763-1837

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Congregational clergyman of Cambridge, Mass. From the description of Meteorological register of Abiel Holmes, 1795-1829. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71069604 American Congregational clergyman and historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cambridge, to Noah Webster, 1809 Sept. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269523484 Congregational clergyman and historian; father of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. From the description of Ab...

Wendell, Jacob, 1691-1761

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