ALS, 1888 February 24 : Boston, to unknown recipient.

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ALS, 1888 February 24 : Boston, to unknown recipient.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15261947

Holmes here refers to his novels "The Guardian Angel," "The Professor at the Breakfast Table," and his own personal favorite "Elsie Venner." This letter is written to an unknown admirer of the author's works.

4 p. ; 20.5 x 12.5 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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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...