Author: HOLMES, Oliver Wendell
Title: Autograph Quotation Signed (Aqs)
Description: Beverly Farms, MA, 24 August 1878. Manuscript. On a 6-1/8" x 6-3/8" piece of lined paper the author has written the following six-line stanza from his poem "The Silent Melody": Sweet are the lips of all who sing When nature's music heather unsought But never yet could voice or string So truly shape our tenderest thought As when by life's decaying fire Our fingers sweep the stringless lyre! Below this he has SIGNED "Oliver Wendell Holmes/Beverly Farms, Mass./Aug. 24th 1878." The poem is identified in ink in a smaller hand at the bottom left corner. A few small stains and mounting remnants on verso. Near Fine .

Keywords: Signed, Manuscript, 19th Century American Literature, 19th Century Literature, Medicine, Oliver Wendell Holmes Signed Literature: American Autographs 19th Century American Literature


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