Portrait of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr in a 19th century tribute
The article recalls Holmes as a kind genial man with liberal views for a Unitarian era. It notes his sunny temperament inherited from both parents and hints his poetic wit came from his mother while his father also wrote verse.
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New England
Holmes
Theodore Parker
Atlantic
Henry Ward Beecher
England
Europe
Franklin
Versailles
Old Montgomery Place
Bosworth Street
Hamilton Place
Temple Place
Tremont Street
Oliver Wendell
Amélia
Edward Jackson
John Turner Sargent
Boston
Sargent
Edward Jackson Holmes
Judge Holmes
Beacon Street
Dr. Holmes
Pittsfield
Mass
Jacob Wendell
Berkshire
Pontoosuc
Canoe Place
Oliver Wendell Holmes A Life of Poetry and Medicine
A long profile traces Oliver Wendell Holmes from Cambridge childhood near Harvard to his rise as a physician and writer. It covers his education, family life, early poems like Old Ironsides, his Harvard tenure, the Atlantic Monthly birth, and his later prolific outputs including The Breakfast Table series and Elsie Venner.
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Bigelow
Cambridgeport
Academy
Cambridge
Holmes
Huckleberry
Phillips Academy
Andover
Harvard
James Freeman Clarke
Samuel Francis Smith
William H. Channing
Europe
Commonwealth
Httle
Boston
Dartmouth College
Harvard Medical School
Parkman
Harvard University
Dorchester
Kennedy
Hood
Washington
Branch
Phi Beta Kappa
George William Curtis
Edward Everett
Beeston, Otis, Broadus & Co
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Thomas Melvill
Green Street
Mercantile’ Library Association
Yale Phi Beta Kappa
Pittsfield
Rip van Winkle
Atlantic Monthly
The
Atlantic
Emerson
Longfellow
Motley
Charles Eliot
Norton
Edmund Quincy
Francis H. Underwood
Lowell
Phillips & Sampson
Massachusetts
Elsie Venner
Buckingham
New England Magazine
Dr. Holmes
Elsie
Dickens
Leigh Hunt
Tom Hood
Hoss Shay
Avon
Bulwer
Breakfast Table
Iris
Addison
Hawthorne
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