Oct 28, 2021 - Sale 2584

Sale 2584 - Lot 110

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. Three items: Autograph Quotation dated and Signed * Two brief Autograph Letters Signed. The first letter, to "Dear Sir," complying with an autograph request. The quotation, two couplets from his poem entitled "The Voiceless," beginning "A few can touch the magic string." The second letter, to "Dear Madam," thanking for her "pretty little collection of sonnets." Each 1 page, 12mo; first letter pasted at lower right corner verso to its integral blank, paper clip stain to second letter. Boston, 8 March 1853; 27 February 1878; Beverly, 5 September 1889

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"A few can touch the magic string / And noisy Fame is proud to win them; / Alas for those that never sing, / But die with all their music in them!"