Dr. Holmes's Boston
By: ed. by Caroline Ticknor ...
Contributors: Ticknor, Caroline, 1866-1937, ed.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Published: 1915
Place of publication: Boston; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Boston; Boston (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Boston (Mass.) -- Social life and customs; Boston (Mass.) -- Description and travel
Notes: Title vignette.
"This edition consists of seven hundred and fifty numbered copies, of which this is number X, publisher's copy."
"The 'Boston of Holmes' as set forth by himself. The many passages  ... have been gleaned from his entire works and have been fitted together in chronological order."--Pref.
Table of contents: title: Childhood and college days, 1809-1830.; title: Habits and habitations.; title: Boston in war time.; title: The Coliseum and the Boston fire.; title: Boston versus England.; title: "The Hub."; title: Boston the lecture cradle.; title: Boston the bookish.; title: Boston elms and the long path.; title: Farewell, Boston.