“For the first time since some early date, whether A. D. or A. Mundi I…” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“For the first time since some early date, whether A. D. or A. Mundi I hardly know, I have got my harness off and am standing for a month or two in the stall.”

A comic metaphor for temporarily escaping literary labour · Letter to M. A. De Wolfe Howe Jr, September 22, 1887

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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…

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