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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1809-08-29 - 1894-10-07

Biographical / Historical

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) was a physician, poet, essayist, and novelist in Massachusetts.
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Found in 119 Collections and/or Records:

Letter : 296, Beacon Street, to Mrs. Henschel, 1883 Mar 9

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-18
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS in response to thanks from her, in flattering metaphors.
Dates: 1883 Mar 9
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : 8 Belgrave Crescent, to an unidentified recipient, 1886 Jun 28

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-89
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS to "My dear Sir" sending thanks for a gift.
Dates: 1886 Jun 28
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : 8 Montgomery Place, to W. W. Greenough, 71 Temple Street, n.y. April 10

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-93
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS, with integral address leaf, providing biographical information on Abraham Wendell.
Dates: n.y. April 10
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Bever[l]ey Farms, Mass., to George Ed Sears, Box 695, Kingston, Ontario, 1889 Jun 17

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-90
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS discussing his poem "Evening by a Tailor," with address panel of envelope and printed reproduction of a portrait engraving of Holmes pasted in.
Dates: 1889 Jun 17
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Beverly Farms, Mass., to an unidentified recipient, 1883 Jul 13

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-72
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS to "My dear Sir" explaining why he cannot recommend the work of the recipient to publishers.
Dates: 1883 Jul 13
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Beverly Farms, Mass., to an unidentified recipient, 1888 Jul 25

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-86
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS to "My dear Sir" enclosing a clipping and thanking the recipient for an article on "the Moral Philisophy of Doni."
Dates: 1888 Jul 25
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Beverly Farms, Mass., to an unidentified recipient, 1883 Sep 16

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-5
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS to "My dear sir" expressing sympathy.
Dates: 1883 Sep 16
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Beverly Farms, Mass., to "Dear Sir", 1893 Sep 18

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-30
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ANS on printed card directing the recipient to contact Houghton Mifflin directly with his proposal to illustrate The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.
Dates: 1893 Sep 18
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Beverly Farms, Mass., to [Lorettus Sutton] Metcalf, 1890 Jun 28

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-61
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS declining an invitation to contribute to an unidentified literary project, possibly Metcalf's periodical, The Forum.
Dates: 1890 Jun 28
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Beverly Farms, Mass., to Mr. Haven, 1889 Jun 28

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-27
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS explaining why he received an A.M. fifty years after he earned it in 1832.
Dates: 1889 Jun 28
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Beverly Farms, Mass., to Mr. Hovey, 1878 Aug 3

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-11
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS originally conveying questions and poetry for "Notes and Queries," to be printed anonymously.
Dates: 1878 Aug 3
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Beverly Farms, Mass., to "Story", 1890 August 27

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-96
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS sharing news of James Russell Lowell and other mutual friends.
Dates: 1890 August 27
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Beverly Farms, Mass., to Winthrop Wetherbee, 10 Matthews Hall, Harvard College, Cambridge, 1886 Oct 4

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-58
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS, with envelope, informing Wetherbee that an unidentified poem is unfinished. Accompanied by a signed engraving of Holmes by H. W. Smith.
Dates: 1886 Oct 4
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, to Miss Alma, 1888 Sep 5

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-42
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS thanking her for the compliment of reciting his work.
Dates: 1888 Sep 5
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Beverly Farms, to [John Greenleaf] Whittier, 1880 Sep 19

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-38
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS asking if the publishers have sent Whittier a copy of Holmes's new book, praising Whittier's "Minister's Daughter," and conveying a copy of Holmes's essay "Jonathan Edwards."
Dates: 1880 Sep 19
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Beverly Farms, to Miss Bloom, 1878 Sep 15

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-32
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS thanking her for photographs of Salisbury Cathedral and Stonehenge.
Dates: 1878 Sep 15
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Boston, to A. O. Kaplan, 14 Fulton Avenue, Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1891 Oct 23

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-49
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS thanking Kaplan for a copy of his book, The Baby's Biography, praising its usefulness, and suggesting how valuable a completed baby book might be if the child grew to be someone of importance. Accompanied by original envelope, addressed in a different hand.
Dates: 1891 Oct 23
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Boston, to Alfred Yankauer, 1893 Oct 31

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-13
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS granting permission to name a literary society after him.
Dates: 1893 Oct 31
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Boston, to an unidentified recipient, 1867 Sep 5

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-64
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS to "my dear sir" thanking the recipient for an unidentified volume of poems.
Dates: 1867 Sep 5
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Boston, to an unidentified recipient, 1861 Mar 12

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-66
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS to "My dear Sir" thanking the recipient for a volume of Chambers's Cyclopedia.
Dates: 1861 Mar 12
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894