Scope and Content Note
Manuscripts from the Library of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841-1935) were a part of the larger Holmes Family Library gift to the Library of Congress in 1935. The collection contains correspondence, sermon notes, recipe books, household account books, notebooks, travel journals, tributes, diaries, an address book, a medical account book, photograph album, book of quotations, Latin vocabulary, and a ship's log. Creators of the manuscripts include Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Dr. James Oliver, Fanny Bowditch Dixwell Holmes, and Amelia Jackson Holmes. The sermon books are notes from the sermons of Joshua Moodey, Gurdon Saltonstall, and Jacob Wendell. Journals include a diary of George Otis and the journal of Captain Thomas Bowditch, of the Brig Nereus.