Papers of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1838-1890 (inclusive).

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Papers of Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1838-1890 (inclusive).

1838-1890

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Includes several letters from Holmes; an 1890 letter from Annie Fields to Sarah Orne Jewett about Holmes; Holmes' essay on medical education, 1870; a Boston Society for Medical Improvement notice for an 1838 meeting and a verse about the Society. Most of the letters are to Jared Sparks concerning Harvard Medical School lectures and related matters; also includes an 1882 letter addressed to Holmes' first class (1885) in the Medical School. There are also copies of Holmes' letters and verse (originals are housed in other libraries). Additional accession includes an 1863 letter addressed to William Hunt regarding his son, Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1841-1935.

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway 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...

Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866

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Jared Sparks (1789-1866) was the President of Harvard University from February 1, 1849 to February 10, 1853. He was also a Unitarian minister, editor, and historian. Jared Sparks was born to Joseph Sparks and Elinor (Orcut) Sparks on May 10, 1789 in Willington, Connecticut. Sparks was one of nine children and came from a family of modest means. When he turned six years old, Sparks went to live with an aunt and uncle in Camden, New York, to help relieve the family of a mout...

Boston Society for Medical Improvement (Mass.)

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The Boston Society for Medical Improvement was founded in 1828 to foster professional relationships in the Boston, Mass. medical community; and to elicit and impart information upon the different branches of the medical sciences. From the description of Records, 1853-1915. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 83571114 ...

Fields, Annie, 1834-1915

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Annie Adams Fields was an author and charity worker, the wife of the Boston publisher James T. Fields. From the description of Papers pertaining to the estate of Annie Adams Fields, 1846-1935. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 86143813 From the guide to the Papers pertaining to the estate of Annie Adams Fields, 1846-1935., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Eighteen letters written by Annie Adams Fields between the years 1882 and...

Harvard Medical School.

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