BIB_ID
101943
Accession number
MA 685.9
Creator
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.
Display Date
1864 Feb. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.4 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters and manuscripts of Oliver Wendell Holmes. See collection record for MA 685 for more information.
Written for the Brooklyn and Long Island Fair in aid of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, at the request of an unidentifed woman.
Written on stationery embossed "21 Charles St."
Written for the Brooklyn and Long Island Fair in aid of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, at the request of an unidentifed woman.
Written on stationery embossed "21 Charles St."
Provenance
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
A fair copy of the poem, signed and dated.
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