“If in a future state there shall be vacations in which we may have liberty to revisit our old home, I think one of the first places I should go to would be that mighty, awe-inspiring river, the Nile.”
About Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
29 August 1809–7 October 1894
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., born 29 August 1809 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and dead 7 October 1894 in Boston, was one of the most recognizably versatile figures in nineteenth-century American culture: physician, medical reformer, anatomist, professor, poet, novelist, essayist, conversational satirist, and public…