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so full; mouth rather more feminine; chin not quite so strong; but on the whole a very good likeness, and I have no doubt you will make an excellent doctor.”
After Holyoke had explained his business Doctor Holmes finally said: “I liked your grandfather, and shall always be glad to see you here.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was class poet of 1861, an honor which pleased his father very much.
Immediately after graduating he went to the war, and came near losing his life at the battle of Antietam.
A rifle-ball passed through both lungs, and narrowly missed his heart.
Alexander Hamilton died of exactly such a wound in seven hours; and yet in three days Captain Holmes was able to write to his father.
The Doctor started at once for the seat of war, and met with quite a series of small adventures which he afterwards described in a felicitous article in the Atlantic, called “My Hunt after the Captain.”
His friend, Dr. Henry P. Bowditch, lost his son in the same battle, and when they met at the railway depot Holmes said: “I would give my house to have your fortune like mine.”
In a letter to Motley dated February 3, 1862, he says:
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