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Lot #6183
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Autograph Quotation Signed - Final Stanza of 'The Chambered Nautilus'

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Wonderful AQS on an off-white 7.25 x 5 sheet, signed neatly in fountain pen, “Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, January 2d, 1880," who writes the concluding stanza of his 1858 poem 'The Chambered Nautilus,' in full: “Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, / As the swift seasons roll! / Leave thy low-vaulted past! / Let each new temple, nobler than the last, / Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, / Till thou at length art free, / Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!” In fine condition.

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