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Creator
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Holmes
Physical description
168 items
Preferred Citation

[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.

Repository
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
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This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence, and financial documents.

Biographical/historical information

Oliver Wendell Holmes was an American poet, prose writer, lecturer, physician, and a professor of the Harvard Medical School from 1847-1882.

Scope and arrangement

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.

The Oliver Wendell Holmes collection of papers are arranged in three series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

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.

Source of acquisition

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.

Processing information

Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.

Using the collection

Location

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 320

Conditions Governing Use

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