Letters from various correspondents, 1820-1894.

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Letters from various correspondents, 1820-1894.

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Many of the letters are from editors and literary friends and acquaintances, usually containing acknowledgments and comments on Holmes' writings or about social affairs; and several letters from other physicians, especially S. Weir Mitchell and James Jackson, concerning medical topics; from college friends Phineas Barnes and Elisha Bartlett about their medical studies; from John L. Motley mostly about British politics and his historical research in Europe; and from friends in Massachusetts and in England. Also include a few letters addressed to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Mitchell, Silas Weir, 1829-1914

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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Motley, John Lothrop, 1814-1877

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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...

Bartlett, Elisha, 1804-1855

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Barnes, Phineas

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