LETTER TO THE EDITOR RECOMMENDING MONUMENT TO OLIVER WENDELL

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR RECOMMENDING MONUMENT TO OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (SUFFRAGISTS.) JULIA WARD HOWE. Autograph Letter Signed, twice, an open letter to the editor of the Boston Evening Transcript, recommending that a bronze wreath be mounted to a wall in King's Chapel [Boston] commemorating Oliver Wendell Holmes's contribution to women's medicine and, in a brief note additionally signed on the verso of the letter's third page, requesting of the editor that the letter either be published or the manuscript returned. 2 1/2 pages, 8vo, written on three sheets; closed tears affecting upper and middle portions of one leaf, some scattered editor's markings in black crayon, faint scattered soiling, horizontal folds. [Boston], 28 April 1909

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"I ask . . . to make public . . . a recollection which occurs to me in connection with the recent celebration of the centenary of the birth of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. The Doctor more than once mentioned to me that in the days of his early professional life, and in view of an epidemic of puerperal fever which had desolated the city of New York, he had published a pamphlet suggesting that the fever might have been carried from one patient to another by the officiating practitioner. . . . [I]t led to a serious study of the subject with the result that . . . no physician in attendance upon a case of puerperal fever should . . . assume the charge of another . . . . [I]t seems to me that the Women of our Community should offer some especial tribute . . . ."