Nov 08, 2018 - Sale 2492

Sale 2492 - Lot 335

Price Realized: $ 195
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
CIVIL WAR-DATED VERSE OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. Autograph Quotation Signed, the last verse from his poem, "The Chambered Nautilus." 1 page, oblong 8vo, with integral blank; marked marginal toning from prior matting; folds. Boston, 28 December 1865

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"Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, / . . . Till thou at length art free, / Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!"

From the Collection of William Wheeler III.