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Oliver Wendell Holmes collection of papers
- Title
- Oliver Wendell Holmes collection of papers, [1833]-1908 bulk 1838-1894.
- Author
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding Aid
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Mixed material | Permit needed | Berg Coll MSS Holmes | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Bishop, George Riker.
- Davis, Charles Henry Stanley, 1840-1917.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
- Gardnier, William Tenant.
- Goodell, Abner Cheney, Jr., 1831-1914.
- Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928.
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
- Jenks, William, 1778-1866.
- Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 1821-1895.
- Osgood, James R. (James Ripley), 1836-1892.
- Peters, John P. (John Punnett), 1852-1921.
- Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917.
- Walpole, Spencer H. (Spencer Horatio), 1806-1898.
- Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.
- Description
- 168 items.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence.
- Biography (note)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes was an American poet, prose writer, lecturer, physician, and a professor of the Harvard Medical School from 1847-1882.
- Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
- Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.
- Provenance (note)
- This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources. The bulk of the materials was previously owned by W. T. H. Howe and Owen D. Young. Other materials were previously owned by [--?] Fayerweather, Frank Fletcher, George S. Hellman, Joan Howe, and Stephen H. Wakeman.
- Processing Action (note)
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- Berg Coll MSS Holmes
- OCLC
- NYPW04-A53
- Author
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.
- Title
- Oliver Wendell Holmes collection of papers, [1833]-1908 bulk 1838-1894.
- Summary
- This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence, and financial documents. The manuscripts include holograph poems and stanzas in the author's hand. The correspondence, dating from [1833] to 1894, includes letters from Holmes to George Riker Bishop, Charles Henry Davis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Abner C. Goodell, Jr., Edmund Gosse, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick Locker-Lampson, Rev. William Jenks, James R. Osgood, John Greenleaf Whittier, and others. Also included is a letter, dated 1886, from Spencer Horatio Walpole to Frederick Locker-Lampson, relating to Oliver Wendell Holmes. There are letters to Holmes from John Peters, and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, as well as a letter from Sir William Tennant Gardnier in Edward Newton Perkins' hand, dating from 1859 to 1886.
- Biography
- Oliver Wendell Holmes was an American poet, prose writer, lecturer, physician, and a professor of the Harvard Medical School from 1847-1882.
- Indexes
- Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Bishop, George Riker.Davis, Charles Henry Stanley, 1840-1917.Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.Gardnier, William Tenant.Goodell, Abner Cheney, Jr., 1831-1914.Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928.Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.Jenks, William, 1778-1866.Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 1821-1895.Osgood, James R. (James Ripley), 1836-1892.Peters, John P. (John Punnett), 1852-1921.Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917.Walpole, Spencer H. (Spencer Horatio), 1806-1898.Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup) Former ownerYoung, Owen D., 1874- Former ownerFletcher, Frank, 1870-1954. Former ownerHellman, George S. (George Sidney), 1878-1958. Former ownerHowe, Joan. Former ownerWakeman, Stephen H., 1859-1924. Former owner
- Research Call Number
- Berg Coll MSS Holmes