1881 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Signed Letter to Cousin Abolitionist Wendell Phillips For Sale

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Very Good Condition. This is a 2 pg letter signed by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809 - 1894).It is dated July 26, 1881 from \"Beverly Farm\", and addressed to Holmes distant cousin Wendell Phillips (famous abolitionist). Letter states, \"I thank you for the most eloquent and ? address to which we all listened without taking note of time. I find most of it so fixed in my memory as delivered that a hint from the page brings back whole paragraphs. I think you must have been pleased with your reception at Cambridge\"....etc. Both pages clear and bright. Measures5 x 6\".

NOTES: Wendell Phillips (1811 - 1884) dedicated his life to fighting for the freedom on which America was founded. He also gave his voice in support of woman\'s suffrage. The speech referred by Holmes in his letter was Phillips June 30, 1881 address at the Centennial Anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa of Harvard College in Cambridge. It was titled, \"The Scholar in a Republic\". Online info states, \"None of Mr. Phillips\' literary addresses is more characteristic than this, and in none are there more passages parallel with his earlier utterances. His whole address was in the spirit of that sentence of Emerson: I am an endless seeker, with no past at my back\".