Two items: ALS, one page, 4 x 6, November 28, 1873. Brief letter complying with a signature request. In full: “It gives me pleasure to comply with your slight request.”; and an AQS, signed “Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, July 2d 1873,” on an off-white 5 x 2.5 vertically lined slip. In full: “A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!” In very good condition, with scattered creasing and toning to both. RR Auction COA.
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