Letter from O.W. Holmes [Oliver Wendell Holmes senior] [to William Robinson]
Information
Title
Letter from O.W. Holmes [Oliver Wendell Holmes senior] [to William Robinson]
Record type
Archive
Original Reference
WRO/2/067
Date
10 Mar 1872
Scope & content
Written from Boston, [Massachusetts, United States of America]. Manuscript
He has received ‘The Garden’ for many weeks and is grateful for it; he has seen extracts from a book of his in the journal; he is not a horticulturist but has read and admired Robinson’s articles and illustrations; if Robinson feels obliged to him for passages he has borrowed, Holmes is repaid by the pleasure of seeing them in such good company and by receiving the journal without payment; his friend Mr H. Winthrop Sargent speaks with interest of Robinson’s journal which must be popular in England and America