ALS 1898 May 7 to "Dear Gilder" (Richard Watson Gilder) Kaltenleutgeben, near Vienna.

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ALS 1898 May 7 to "Dear Gilder" (Richard Watson Gilder) Kaltenleutgeben, near Vienna.

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Surprised by a generous offer from the editor of Century magazine, Mark Twain fondly remembers the first time he was "rated" with the great Oliver Wendell Holmes!

4 pages 13.97 x 22.23 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley 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...