Oliver Wendell Holmes correspondence
Overview
Collection includes letters to and from American physician and humorist Oliver Wendell Holmes. Correspondents include a Miss Willis of Boston and E. Lakin Brown [(1809-1899), of Michigan?]
Dates
- Creation: 1872 - 1890
Creator
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
No access restriction
Conditions Governing Use
Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.
Biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
Oliver Wendell Holmes was born in Cambridge Massachusetts and studied law at Harvard University before changing career paths, thereafter studying medicine at both Harvard and in Paris and receiving his medical degree from Harvard in 1836. Holmes had a private medical practice for 10 years and then taught anatomy for two years at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire before becoming a professor of anatomy and physiology at Harvard in 1847. Holmes later became dean of Harvard's medical school and held that post until 1882.
Holmes was perhaps better known as a humorist poet than as a medical doctor, earning national acclaim as early as 1830 for his poem "Old Ironsides." He contributed "Breakfast-Table" papers regularly to the Atlantic Monthly beginning in 1857, which he turned into several publications.
[Information retrieved from britannica.com.]
Extent
2 folders (5 sheets + 1 photograph)
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
MS P147
Custodial History
Probable Source for MS P147A: McCullough collection (MS E68)– Annie Willis McCullough was a journalist active in 1889 & 1890; the tear marks on the June 1890 letter and the portrait seem to come from a pair of facing pages in MS E68.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
MS P147B: Gift, Mrs. C.F. Nelson.
- Title
- Guide to the Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection
- Subtitle
- Oliver Wendell Holmes correspondence
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by am, 1961. Finding aid encoded by skt, 2006. Finding aid revised by mwh, 2020.
- Date
- 2006
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Finding aid written in English.
- Finding aid permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/10407/4641638252
- Preferred citation
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Oliver Wendell Holmes correspondence, Department of Special Collections, MS P147, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository