“I remember writing an article for the North American Review many years…” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“I remember writing an article for the North American Review many years ago in which the editor claimed his Editorial right to change things to suit himself, and altered just one word — for the worse.”

A humorous but serious defence of an author's control over his wording · Letter, August 19, 1882

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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