Charles Dudley Warner
“Thou wert the morning star among the living,
Ere thy fair light had fled:
Now, having died, thou art as Hesperus, giving
New splendor to the dead.”
American Men of Letters
Note
My thanks are due to the members of Mr. Emerson’s family, and the other friends who kindly assisted me by lending interesting letters and furnishing valuable information.
The Index, carefully made by Mr. J.H. Wiggin, was revised and somewhat abridged by myself.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Boston, November 25, 1884.