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Showing posts with label Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 8, 2019

John L. Motley to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, September 22, 1863

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Vienna,             September 22, 1863. My Dear Holmes : I am perfectly aware that I do not deserve to receive any letters or anythin...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

John L. Motley to Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., November 2, 1862

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Vienna, November 2, 1862. My Dear Holmes : More and more does it become difficult for me to write to you. I am greedier than ever for y...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett, July 18, 1864

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Washington, July 18, 1864. I have only time to write a few words to-night to say good-by. I was very much disappointed at not seeing yo...
Sunday, September 4, 2016

John L. Motley to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., August 31, 1862

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Vienna , August 31, 1862. My Dear Holmes : Bare, bare, bare of news, events, objects of the slightest interest to you or any one else,...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. to John L. Motley, April 27, 1862

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Boston , April 27, 1862. My Dear Motley : I saw Lowell day before yesterday, and asked him if he had written as you requested and as I ...
Friday, September 18, 2015

Major Wilder Dwight: Thursday Morning, October 24, 1861

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Camp Near Conrad's Ferry , October 24, 1861, Thursday Morning. The violation of every rule and maxim of military law, the exactio...
Sunday, September 6, 2015

John L. Motley to Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., February 16, 1862

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Legation of the United States of America, Vienna, February 26, 1862. My Dear Holmes : You are the most generous and delightful of cor...
Saturday, August 15, 2015

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes to John L. Motley, February 3, 1862

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BOSTON, February 3, 1862. . . . We are the conquerors of nature, they 1 of nature's weaker children. We thrive on reverses and dis...
Sunday, June 21, 2015

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. to John L. Motley November 29, 1861

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Boston , November 29, 1861. My Dear Motley : I know you will let me begin with my personal story, for you have heard before this time a...
Sunday, June 14, 2015

John Lothrop Motley to Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., November 15, 1861

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Vienna , November 14, 1861. My Dear Holmes : Your letter of October 8 awaited me here. I need not tell you with what delight I read it,...
Monday, April 20, 2015

Captain William Francis Bartlett to Harriet Plummer Bartlett, Saturday Night, October 25, 1861

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Camp Benton, Saturday Night, October 25, 1861. My Dear Mother , — . . . . I have not had time or heart to write you, who had such goo...