Oliver Wendell Holmes letters, 1878-1886.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes letters, 1878-1886.

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The collection includes four letters written by Holmes: to My dear Sir, 10 Nov. 1878, thanking him for a gift of The Fireside Encyclopedia of Poetry, and comments on the books merits; to Professor Fisher, 3 June 1881, reminiscing over a recent stimulating conversation they shared; to My dear Mr. Gosse, 6 Dec. 1885, complimenting him on his book, Firdausi in Exile and Other Poems, with some personal news; to My dear Mr. Winthrop, 31 April 1886, thanking him for his hospitality during a recent visit by Holmes and his daughter.

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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...

Fisher, George Park, 1827-1909

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Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928

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Edmund Gosse, a well known man of letters, librarian to the House of Lords (1904-1914), and author of the autobiography, Father and Son (1907), was a pioneering translator of Ibsen and author of numerous volumes of poetry, criticism and biography. Charles Edmund Merrill was an active member of the Grolier Club from 1910 until his death in 1942. From the description of Letters : to Charles E. Merrill, 1910-1924. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122577035 English poet and man of...