Oliver Wendell Holmes papers
Contributors: Holmes, Oliver Wendell. 1809-1894
Language: eng
Number of pages: 700
Subjects: Correspondence; American literature
Description: Chiefly correspondence and literary manuscripts including The Poet at the Breakfast-table: His Talks with His Fellow-boarders and the Reader (1872), John Lothrop Motley: A Memoir (1879), A Moral Antipathy (1885), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1885), Our Hundred Days in Europe (1887), and Over the Teacups (1891).  Correspondents include Louis Agassiz, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Robert Browning, Wilkie Collins, George William Curtis, Richard Henry Dana, Edmund Gosse, Julia Ward Howe, William Dean Howells, James Russell Lowell, John Boyle O'Reilly, Wendell Phillips, Edmund Clarence Stedman, and John Greenleaf Whittier.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition of vols. 1-3 of correspondence (1837-1894) available; no. 15,211 (15,671).

Microfilm edition produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1971.

Gift, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1921.

Various gifts, purchases, transfers, and deposit, 1915-1974.

Author, physician, educator, and dean of Harvard Medical School.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007047