Doctor Oliver W. Holmes : autograph poem signed : [London?], 1884 Aug.

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Doctor Oliver W. Holmes : autograph poem signed : [London?], 1884 Aug.

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A duplicate of the poem to commemorate Oliver Wendell Holmes' 75th birthday that Locker-Lampson included in his Aug. 7, 1884 letter (MA 194.46). This copy includes corrections in red ink.

1 item (1 p.) ; 17.6 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7914663

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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...

Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 1821-1895

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British poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Rowfant, Crawley, to Jeannette L. Gilder, 1884 Oct. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 644685614 From the description of Doctor Oliver W. Holmes : autograph poem signed : [London?], 1884 Aug. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 644709797 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to the editors of The Critic [Jeannette L. and Joseph B. Gilder], 1884 Aug. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270591...