HOLMES OLIVER WENDELL Autograph Letter Signed OW Holmes to M

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HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. Autograph Letter Signed, "O.W. Holmes," to Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd, elaborately declining an invitation. 1 page, 8vo, with integral blank; horizontal folds. Boston, 28 December 1869

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"Had I the wings of a dove I would be with you for an hour at least . . . ."
"But I am very unmigratory from necessity just now and I can only thank you from the cage where I rarely sing and whence I almost never fly. . . ."