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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 : Boston, to Mr. Rathbone, 1888 Jan 7

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-4
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS thanking him for mistletoe and holly and describing meeting of class of 1829.
Dates: 1888 Jan 7
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Boston, to Mrs. Mary L. Hoffman, 534 Bartlett St., San Francisco, California, 1882 Feb 28

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-48
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS inviting the recipient's son to call on him for advice about his studies, and thanking her for praise of his writings. Accompanied by original envelope and by reproduction of a portrait of Holmes (copyright 1907 by Eugene A. Perry).
Dates: 1882 Feb 28
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Boston, to "My dear Dr.", 1860 Nov 12

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-28
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS thanking him for a fine edition of selected poems, addressed to Mrs. Holmes.
Dates: 1860 Nov 12
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Boston, to "My dear Sir", 1885 Feb 10

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-45
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS thanking the recipient for kind words and mentioning John Lothrop Motley.
Dates: 1885 Feb 10
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Boston, to "My Dear Sir", 1884 Jan 13

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-17
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS thanking the recipient for his pamphlet "Random Notes and Observations."
Dates: 1884 Jan 13
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Boston, to "My dear Sir", 1880 December 20

 Part of Collection — Box: 102, Folder: 11
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: Autograph letter, signed, discussing books and authors. Holmes says that he will send a copy of his book The Iron Gate and Other Poems.
Dates: 1880 December 20
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Boston, to R. S. Chilton, U. S. Consul, St. Catharine's, Ontario, Canada, 1883 May 12

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-36
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS praising a poem by Chilton.

With envelope.
Dates: 1883 May 12
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Boston, to Robert B. Hall, Buckland, Mass., 1870 Apr 5

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-41
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS declining an invitation from two literary societies at Williams College.

With envelope.
Dates: 1870 Apr 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 Scribner & Co., 1872 Aug 4

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-51
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS sending thanks but declining an undescribed proposal from Scribner & Co.
Dates: 1872 Aug 4
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Boston, to Susie Barstow Skelding, Brooklyn, 1886 Jan 14

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-19
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS thanking the illustrator for a book she sent as a New Year's gift.

With envelope.
Dates: 1886 Jan 14
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Boston, to Thomas M. Brewer, Atlas Office, 1845 Dec 23

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-1
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS explaining that he has sent his poem to the Daily Adventure.

With two photographs of Holmes, a clipping of a portrait of him, and manuscript notes about him.
Dates: 1845 Dec 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 Trustees of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the City of New York, 1840 Mar 6

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-33
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS recommending his colleague Dr. Elisha Bartlett for a Chair in the College.
Dates: 1840 Mar 6
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Boston, to unidentified recipient, 1861 Mar 20

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-55
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS introducing Isaac H. Hazelton.
Dates: 1861 Mar 20
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Boston, to William Dean Howells, [1866] Oct 15

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-6
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS to Howells, subeditor of the Atlantic Monthly, concerning Four Years in the Saddle, by Harry Gilmor, given to Holmes by Gilmor's father-in-law, Jasper Strong.
Dates: [1866] Oct 15
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Cambridge, to Mr. [Richard H.?] Derby, n.d.

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-25
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS regarding tickets to an unnamed lecture for himself and Wendell.

With envelope in unidentified hand, not orginal to letter.
Dates: n.d.
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Great Malvern, [England], to “My dear Sir”, 1886 July 11

 Part of Collection — Box: 96, Folder: 40
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Dates: 1886 July 11
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Pittsfield, to "My dear Sir", 1849 Sep 14

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-40
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS concerning a legacy left to his maid, Sarah Tolman, by her aunt, [Anne] Cleverly, describing the history of Sarah's mother's and sisters' service to the Wendell and Holmes families for over sixty years.
Dates: 1849 Sep 14
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Pittsfield, to [Robert C.] Winthrop, 1857 Jul 26

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-52
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS declining an invitation to a meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Accompanied by a photomechanical print of Oliver Wendell Holmes, with prints of "The Holmes Children" (Edward Jackson Holmes, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Amelia Jackson Holmes) and "The Gambrel-roofed House in Cambridge" on the verso.
Dates: 1857 Jul 26
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : Pittsfield, to W. H. Kennard, President of the Mercantile Library Association, 1841 Aug 29

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-70
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS declining a request from an unidentified committee for Holmes to deliver a long poem. Address pane clipped from envelope is mounted to verso.
Dates: 1841 Aug 29
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894

Letter : to [Charles Colrock Jones], 1861 Mar 5

 Part of Collection — Box: 21, Folder: GROUP 439, F-39
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS thanking the recipient for a copy of Monumental Remains of Georgia, expressing his belief in an unbreakable fellowship between writers and artists in both North and South.

Accompanied by a reproduction of a portrait drawing by E. Nicolas, 1891, after an earlier photograph.
Dates: 1861 Mar 5
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > H > HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 1809-1894