Mar 13, 2008 - Sale 2139

Sale 2139 - Lot 226

Price Realized: $ 360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. Autograph Quotation Signed, and dated, the final stanza from his poem, The Last Leaf. 1 page, approximately 4x4 inches; faint staining through signature; small closed tear in space below signature, horizontal fold, minor foxing; matted and framed with an engraved portrait. not examined out of frame. Np, 16 August 1890

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"And if I should live to be / The last leaf upon the tree / In the Spring, / Let them smile as I do now / At the old foresaken bough / Where I cling."