AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS) with a CABINET CARD PHOTOGRAPH
6 February 1892. Manuscript. On a small (4-1/8" x 2-7/8") piece of paper Holmes has written the third stanza of "Song. For A Temperance Dinner" and dated and SIGNED in full "Oliver Wendell Holmes" below.
Alas for the loved one, too spotless and fair
The joys of his banquet to chasten and share
Her eye lost its light that his goblet might shine
And the rose of her cheek was dissolved in his wine. Photograph Fine; manuscript Very Good with a neatly repaired tear going through the quotation. Item #020639
Price: $600.00