OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
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Academy of Arts and Sciences of Boston. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Yale university in 1886, and from Harvard in 1895. As a youth he collected rare engravings to the extent of his limited means. He was married June 17, 1872, to Fanny Bowditch, daughter of Epes S. Dixwell of Cambridge, Massachusetts, his early instructor in Latin. He edited the twelfth edition of “Kent's Commentaries” (1873) and is the author of “The Common Law” (Lowell Institute Lectures, 1881), and of a volume of speeches.
