HOLMES, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894). Autograph letter signed ("O.W. Holmes") to [Paul Hamilton] Hayne (1830-1886), Boston, 21 October 1868. 4 pages, 8vo. POET TO POET. Holmes remarks on a poem sent to him by the southern poet: "The poem strikes me as musical, tender, thoughtful...that tranquil form of beauty which men sometimes think is oftener found under our cold Northern skies than in the fierce sunshine of the South. I like it all the better for this contemplative calmness. A eulogy...should have something of marble stillness, not coldness...Not clamorous grief, but subdued sorrow seems truest to the occasion, and the expression of this is what especially pleased me in your poem." Holmes comments on Henry Timrod (1828-1867, known as the Laureate of the Confederacy) and concludes: "I think this poem of yours will be accepted wherever it goes quite as lovingly as if [it] had been sung beneath the pines instead of under the palms - or magnolias." -- HOLMES. Autograph letter signed ("O.W. Holmes") to T.L. Dunnell, Boston, 5 October 1848. 1 page, 4to, integral address leaf. Concerning a course he teaches at the college and a lecture he will deliver at Providence. -- HOLMES. Autograph quotation signed ("Oliver Wendell Homes"), Boston, 13 November 1891. 1 page, 8vo. Holmes writes: "And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the Spring Let them smile as I do now At the old forsaken bough Where I cling." Together three items. (3)