Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Tristram Coffin, 1891 Dec. 9.

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Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Tristram Coffin, 1891 Dec. 9.

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Stating that he Coffin will receive portions of The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table by the next post. Discussing his poor eyesight and noting that he will be unable to copy any more of the text. Noting "if you would prefer to pay me for my labor, make your own terms, -- you know what it is worth to you."

1 item (1 p.) ; 17.8 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...

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