Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1894 — Ottver Wendell Holmes. [ARTICLE]

Ottver Wendell Holmes.

Binoe 1171 Oliver Wendell Holmes has Uved In a plain red brick house in Boston. Here a great many of his late poems have been written, and here he la likely |o spend the remainder of his days. Oliver Wendell Holmes, though be does not look it, is 83 years old. Dap In and day out he reoeives a email anny ot call ere, who, unbidden, never fail to appear upon hie doorstep. Autograph seekers, would-be poet* ot a tender age, older one® who will never see 60 again, but who, nevertheless, essay tbo eeoeat of the moot difficult mountain that over oonfronted man; young ladle® In their town, with dainty eoente# Pspars. Joined with ribbons; toaster* austere end prim, with manusorlpta written in faded lab, about as Intelligible as the hieroglyphic* of the early As toon—these, together with students, scientists, doctors, professors aad divines, are continually seeking him. Every mall —there are some half done In the day—triage him letters, books and manuscripts from all parte of toe country and. except In Isolated Instances, the whole of them oome from people of when* vary existence he was unaware. Basse ask him to write a orltMs. * preface, some require a rhyme corrected, all want something dona, aad so fart do those aocumulate that to use the poofs own words, “To nsgtort attending to them for a day or two would moan to have my room full,* In appearance too poet la perhaps a trifle under the medium height, and gives oaa too impression of being very methodical aad exact in his habits. In oonvarsatton hie whole face lights up end his eyes glow. When he laughs he looks mere then ever the whole-heertcd mas bets.