Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
Dates
- Existence: 1809-08-29 - 1894-10-07
Biographical / Historical
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) was a physician, poet, essayist, and novelist in Massachusetts.
Found in 107 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence, 1871 July 24-1880 September 3
Correspondence, 1866-1892
Correspondence, 1883 November 27, undated
Three autograph manuscript letters, signed, from Oliver Wendell Holmes. Includes a letter addressed to Miss Sanborn saying when he will be available for a visit; and a letter addressed to Mr. Fields and "James" discussing publishing matters.
Letter : 8 Belgrave Crescent, to an unidentified recipient, 1886 Jun 28
ALS to "My dear Sir" sending thanks for a gift.
Letter : 8 Montgomery Place, to W. W. Greenough, 71 Temple Street, n.y. April 10
ALS, with integral address leaf, providing biographical information on Abraham Wendell.
Letter : 21 Charles St., Boston, to Board of Naval Examiners, 1862 Jul 21
ALS, with envelope, recommending Dr. Henry Shaw. With one printed portrait engraving of Holmes.
Letter : 21 Charles St., Boston, to Caroline Stickney, 1863 Jul 28
ALS, with envelope, concerning a submission of poems.
Letter : 21 Charles St., to an unidentified recipient, 1864 November 15
ALS to "My dear Sir" concerning medical matters.
Letter : 21 Charles St., to "Dear Sir", n.y. Dec 3
ALS apologizing for forgetting a promise that the first delivery of a lecture would be at the "cause" of the recipient, and delivering it first at Concord Hall, at the request of Rev. Mr. Hale.
Letter : 21 Charles St., to Jeremiah Colburn, n.y. Oct 4
ALS thanking Colburn for sending old papers, many bearing the name of Holmes's grandfather. Accompanied by two attached clippings, a review of Holmes's address to the Massachusetts Medical Society in May 1860, and an engraving of Holmes.
Letter : 21 Charles St., to Mr. [Clubb?], 1865 Oct 29
ALS regarding "painting" for an unidentified work.
Letter : 21 Charles St., to [William Henry] Furness, 1864 Oct 30
ALS about writing for newspapers.
With engraved portrait of Holmes.
Letter : 21 Charles Street, Boston, to [Frederick Swartwout Cozzens?], 1863 May 24
ALS discussing a recent surgeon general's order, mentioning Dr. James Jackson and Dr. Hammond, and thanking the recipient for kind words concerning Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., about whom Holmes has been writing in the Atlantic Monthly. He lists his son's war injuries thus far, including those recently sustained at Fredericksburg, and describes his convalescence.
Letter : 164 Charles St., to Dr. [Frederic Henry] Hedge, 1869 Dec 8
ALS thanking Hedge for a copy of his book and praising it in detail.
Letter : 164 Charles St., to Dr, [James?], 1869 Aug 16
ALS regarding a pamphlet by the recipient, praising his figure of Jacobson's Nerve.
With envelope, not original to letter.
Letter : 164 Charles St., to "My dear Gray", [ca. 1880] Jun 3
ALS regarding an alumni meeting and alumni fund.
Letter : 296 Beacon St., Boston, to Alexander Denham, n.y. Dec 4
ALS asking Denham to send two works by Thackeray, the Student's Quarto and Certain Miscellany Tracts.
Letter : 296 Beacon St., [Boston], to Mrs. N. Silsbee, 240 Marlborough St., Boston, 1884 Dec 16
ALS, with envelope, expressing thanks for her condolences upon the death of his youngest child.
Letter : 296 Beacon St., to an unidentified recipient, 1889 Nov 19
ALS to "My dear Sir" complimenting an unidentified poet on a poem published in Youth's Companion.