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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

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Auction Date:2012 Feb 15 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
AQS on an off-white 8.5 x 5 sheet. Holmes pens a stanza from ‘The Chambered Nautilus.’ In full:
“Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!”

Signed at the conclusion, “Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, Dec. 8th 1870.” Cloth matted and framed with a nice Andrew Wyeth print of a woman in bed (thought to be Wyeth’s mother-in-law on her bed during the final illness of her life, a chambered nautilus on her hope chest), to an overall size of 21.75 x 22. In fine condition, with a vertical crease to right side, and a mild shade of toning. A superb example from arguably his best known work. Oversized.