Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Tristram Coffin, 1891 Nov. 19.

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Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Tristram Coffin, 1891 Nov. 19.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269546444

Discussing the portions of The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table that he would like Holmes to copy.

1 item (2 p.) ; 17.7 cm. + envelope.

Pierpont Morgan 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...

Coffin, Tristram

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Gandalet, L. A., Miss.

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Secretary to the American writer and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Tristram Coffin, 1891 Nov. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269546444 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Boston], to Tristram Coffin, 1891 Nov. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 642361611 ...