Oliver Wendell Holmes collection, 1852-1936.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes collection, 1852-1936.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48380040

The collection consists of correspondence (mostly letters from Holmes), recitation questions, printed poems, one manuscript poem, one news clipping, photographs, and recollections of Holmes, spanning 1852-1936. Of interest is a typescript essay by Anna Howell Kennedy Findlay that describes an encounter with the younger Oliver Wendell Holmes during the Civil War.

.2 linear ft. (0.5 document box)

Johns Hopkins University, Sheridan Libraries and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7593744

Johns Hopkins University, Sheridan Libraries and the Milton S. Eisenhower 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...

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...

Findlay, Anna Howell Kennedy, 1852-

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Gilman, Daniel Coit, 1831-1908

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American educator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : to W. Reid, 1871 Dec. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269584399 Biographical Note: Daniel Coit Gilman was an educator and first president of The Johns Hopkins University. From the description of Daniel Coit Gilman papers, 1773-1925. (Johns Hopkins University). WorldCat record id: 48134620 Daniel Coit Gilman: president of the University of California, 1872-1875; president of Johns Hop...