"The dinner-bell, the dinner-bell / Is ringing loud and clear; / ...
Published: 1883
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Notes: Facsimile telegraph form on which appear in ms. facsimile 8 lines from Holmes's early poem "A noontide lyric"; dated "Boston April 12 1883"; distributed for the enlivenment of the guests at a dinner given in Holmes's honor by the medical profession of New York at Delmonico's restaurant, 12 Apr. 1883; with a humorous sketch of Holmes, Dr. Fordyce Barker, & Gov. Benjamin Butler on the verso.