HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. Autograph letter signed, Boston, 8 February 1879. 4 pages, 4to. Holmes responds to a friendly letter from a Scottish critic: "...Nothing but sweets have ever come to me from Dundee. The marmalade is on my table daily. One of the prettiest of women, Mrs. Laird, also of Dundee, has sweetened the austerity of my library with her gracious presence. And now comes your letter, with your criticism sounding as mellifluously to me and read it as our famous old tune "Dundee" used to sound as we sung it to the words...."