Lot 424
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr (1809-1894) American physician, poet, professor, lecturer, and author. Autograph quotation signed, 1 page, 3 x 6 in., being one verse of the poem, "For the Window in St. Margaret's / In Memory of a Son of Archdeacon Farrar:
Afar he sleeps whose name is graven here,
Where loving hearts his early doom deplore;
Youth, promise, virtue, all that made him dear
Heaven lent, earth borrowed, sorrowing to restore."
With an autograph note signed ("O.W. Holmes"), 1 page, 6 x 4 7/8 in., Boston, March 15, 1886. To Charles Morris, "I shall refer your request to my Publisher…."
Estimated Value $300 - 400.
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