Apr 17, 2012 - Sale 2276

Sale 2276 - Lot 394

Price Realized: $ 510
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. Two items: Autograph Letter Signed * Autograph Quotation Signed. The first, to "My dear Lady," giving her permission "to print 'The Last Leaf' in your volume of selections." 1 page, 8vo; evenly toned. The second, four lines from his poem "Flag of the Heroes," beginning, "Lord of the Universe, shield us and guide us." 1 page, oblong 8vo; oval portrait mounted at lower left. (AKF) Boston, 5 September 1865; 24 March 1864
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with--Printed bookplate: "From the library of Oliver Wendell Holmes. The gift of his son Oliver Wendell Holmes."