Autograph letter signed : Rutland, Vt., to Jeannette L. Gilder, 1884 Aug. 18.

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Autograph letter signed : Rutland, Vt., to Jeannette L. Gilder, 1884 Aug. 18.

Paying tribute to Oliver Wendell Holmes on his 75th birthday.

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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...

Gilder, Jeannette L. (Jeannette Leonard), 1849-1916

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Journalist, editor, and literary critic for various publications. From the description of Papers of Jeannette L. Gilder [manuscript], 1879-1909. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647810869 Jeannette L. Gilder was an editor, journalist, and critic, best remembered as editor of The Critic, which she co-founded with her brother, Joseph. The Critic was small but respected, and published and encouraged some of the most recognizable names of the day. She continued to c...

Dorr, Julia C. R. (Julia Caroline Ripley), 1825-1913

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Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr was an American writer of poetry, fiction, and criticism, contributing to Century and Atlantic monthly among others. A graduate of Middlebury College, she lived most of her life in Vermont. From the description of Julia C.R. Dorr poem, 1878 Nov. 4. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 49419327 American novelist and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Rutland, Vt., to Charles Edwin Hurd, lite...