AQS on an off-white 6 x 8 sheet, signed, “Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, Dec. 18th 1888.” Holmes pens the final stanza from his poem ‘The Boys,’ in full: “Then here's to our boyhood, its gold and its gray, / The stars of its winter, the dews of its May! / And when we have done with our life-lasting toys / Dear Father, take care of thy children, The Boys!” An engraving of Holmes is affixed above. In very good condition, with light foxing along the vertical fold, and an old remnant on the reverse showing through lightly beneath the date (could be matted out). Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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