Male : Man of letters, novelist, story writer, biographer & poet. Anti-Calvinist. He also wrote a number of books on medicine and surgery. Married Amelia Jackson in 1840

Nationality : American Place of Birth : Cambridge, Massachusetts

Date of Birth : 1809 Date of Death : 1894 Age : 85

Other Work : Professor of Anatomy at Harvard

Education : Phillips Andover Academy & Harvard

1833-1846
The Harbinger : A May-Gift (1833)
(In) Library of Practical Medicine (1836 Perkins & Marvin, Boston)
Boylston Prize Dissertations for 1836 & 1837 (1838)
Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions : Lectures (1842 Ticknor, Boston)
Poems (1846 Rich, London)
Urania : A Rhymed Lesson (1846 Ticknor)

1847-1860
Astraea : The Balance of Illusions - A Poem (1850 Ticknor, Reed & Fields)
Poetical Works (1852)
Lectures on English Poets of the 19thC (1853)
Puerpal Fever, as a Private Pestilence (1855 Ticknor & Fields)
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1857) (1858 Phillips, Sampson - Boston)
The Professor at the Breakfast Table, with The Story of Iris (1860 Ticknor & Fields)
(1860 Sampson Low)

1861-1870
Elsie Venner : A Romance of Destiny (1861 Ticknor & Fields) - 2 vols
(1861 Routledge)
Currents and Counter-Currents in Medical Science (1861 Ticknor & Fields)
Songs in Many Keys (1862 Ticknor & Fields) (1862 Sampson Low)
Border Lines of Knowledge in Some Provinces of Medical Science (1862 Boston)
Soundings from the Atlantic (1864 Ticknor & Fields)
Humorous Poems (1865 Boston)
The Guardian Angel (1867 London) (1867 Ticknor & Fields) - 2 vols

1871-1880
Mechanism in Thought & Morals (1871 Osgood)
The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872 Osgood) (1872 Routledge)
Songs of Many Seasons 1862-1874 (1875 James R Osgood)
Welcome to All Nations (1876 Phila) - single sheet. folded
The Poetical Works (1877 Osgood)
John Lothrop Motley : A Memoir (1878 Trubner) (1879 Houghton, Osgood) - 516 large paper
The Brave Old South (1879 Boston) - Broadside
The School Boy (1879 Houghton Osgood) - D C Hitchcock
The Iron Gate & other Poems (1880 HM)
Benjamin Pierce : Astronomer, Mathematician 1809-1880 (1880 Riverside Press, Boston)
- Broadside. 100

1881-1890
The Common Law (1881 Little Brown)
Poetical Works (1881)
Medical Essays 1842-1882 (1883)
Pages from an Old Volume of Life : A Collection of Essays 1857-1881 (1883 Houghton Mifflin)
A Mortal Antipathy : First Opening of the New Portfolio (1885 HM)
Illustrated Poems (1885 Macmillan)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1885 Houghton Mifflin)
Our Hundred Days in Europe (1887 HM)
Poem for the Dedication of the Fountain at Stratford-on-Avon (1887 Np)
Before the Curfew & other Poems, Chiefly Occasional (1888 Houghton Mifflin) - 250
(1888 Sampson Low Marston)
The Collected Works (1890 Riverside Press, Boston) - 14 vols

1891-1900
Over the Teacups (1891 Houghton Mifflin)
The Works : Standard Library Edition (1892 Houghton Mifflin) - 13 vols
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1894 Houghton Mifflin) - 2 vols. Howard Pyle
The Last Leaf (1895 Riverside Press, Cambridge)
Complete Poetical Works (1895) - Edited by Horace E Scudder
Speeches (1900 Little Brown)

20thC
A Dissertation on Acute Pericarditis (1937)
At Dartmouth : The Phi Beta Kappa Poem 1839 (1940)
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1955 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by R J Holden
The Autocrat's Miscellanies (1959) - Edited by Albert Mordell

READING
John T Morse : Life & Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes (1896 Boston) - 2 vols
Mark A De Wolfe Howe : Holmes of the Breakfast-Table (1936)
Eleanor M Tilton : Amiable Autocrat - A Biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes (1947)
Thomas Franklin Currier & Eleanor M Tilton : A Bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes
(1953 New York UP)
Miriam R Small : Oliver Wendell Holmes (1963)