...ight, not very important to the race, but having an odd sort of interest for one at least. Very truly yours, O. W. Holmese. In childhood I became intimate with the household circle in which Oliver Wendell Holmes was born and bred, the intimacy coming from the fact that my father's house stood next to it and that Dr. Holmes's nephew, Charles Parsons,--afterward Professor Parsons of Brown University,--was my e...