Oct 28, 2021 - Sale 2584

Sale 2584 - Lot 109

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. Autograph Quotation Signed, the last stanza from his "The Last Leaf," on a leaf removed from an album. Oblong 12mo; short closed separation at horizontal fold, remnants of mounting at upper and lower edges verso. Beverly, 9 August 1883
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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 forsaken bough / Where I cling."
With--(Oliver Wendell Holmes.) Cabinet card photograph, unsigned, half-length portrait by A.W. Elson showing him looking into the camera.