Author of The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table and the poems Old Ironsides and The Chambered Nautilus, among others. AQS on a 4.5 x 3 lightly lined off-white slip. Holmes pens six lines from his work entitled The Last Leaf. In full, “And if I should live to be the last leaf upon the tree in the spring, Let them smile as I do now, At the old forsaken bough where I do cling.” Signed at the conclusion, “Oliver Wendell Holmes, Beverly Farms, Mass, July 3d, 1885.” In fine condition, with a light horizontal crease under signature. R&R COA.
