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Unlike many other Boston Brahmins of the day. Holmes chose to plunge into the Civil War rather than flee it. He was seriously wounded three times, but kept coming back for more. On a worn piece of paper he scrawled. "I am Capt. O W Holmes 20th Mass son of...
Separate cases contain selected Holmes papers from his terms on the Massachusetts and United States Supreme Courts. "I think in construing the constitution we should remember that it is a frame of government for men of opposite opinions and for the future," men of opposite opinions and for the future...
Holmes had vowed to write a book before he reached 40 and fulfilled the promise with several weeks to spare. The exhibit contains an autographed, first edition copy of The Common Law, the book which earned him a Law School professorship. A collection of lectures originally delivered at Boston's...
Holmes maintained a wide range of correspondents, both American and foreign. He exchanged letters with such luminaries as the British economist Harold J. Laski and the brothers William and Henry James. An excerpt from hi travel diary dated May 26, 1866 reads: "...Then with them [Henry Adams and his family...
Holmes was often known as "the Great Liberal" and "the Great Dissenter," but, says Chadbourn. "He wasn't that liberal and he didn't dissent all that much." In a series of sedition cases after World War I, Holmes authored the majority opinion which found Americans guilty of collaboration with...