Letters to Addie Herzog, 1883-1888.

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Letters to Addie Herzog, 1883-1888.

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Two letters from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. to Miss Addie Herzog. Included in folder is a 1935 letter from Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. to Paul M. Herzog, and a typewritten note from Herzog: "The letters dated 1883 and 1888 were addressed by the novelist, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, to my father's blind cousin, Miss Addie Herzog, who was a great admirer of his work....The letter from his son, Justice Holmes...relates to his having then been shown his Father's letters by me. I have been advised by Justice Holmes' last secretary, James H. Rowe, Jr....that the autograph signature is the last one which the Justice ever wrote before his death six weeks later....The remainder of the letter is in Rowe's handwriting, but was dictated by the Justice...."

2 folded sheets (6 p.)

Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138

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Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138

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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...

Herzog, Addie,

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Herzog, Paul M., 1906-1986

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Lawyer, educator, and government official. From the description of Papers, 1931-1962. (Harry S Truman Library). WorldCat record id: 70944292 ...

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935

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Holmes was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to the prominent writer and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. and abolitionist Amelia Lee Jackson. Dr. Holmes was a leading figure in Boston intellectual and literary circles. Mrs. Holmes was connected to the leading families; Henry James Sr., Ralph Waldo Emerson and other transcendentalists were family friends. Known as "Wendell" in his youth, Holmes, Henry James Jr. and William James became lifelong friends. Holmes accordingly grew up in an atmospher...