Menu and program from Delmonico's dinner

Menu and program from Delmonico's dinner

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

Delmonnico's Restaurant (New York, N.Y.)

Following Holmes’ resignation of his professorship at Harvard, the physicians of New York hosted a public dinner in his honor. The dinner was held at Delmonico’s on April 12; the symbol of the event, embossed on the cover of the menu and a souvenir booklet of the proceedings, was a crossed scalpel and pen, as Holmes was “skilled to dissect with both.” Dr. Fordyce Barker, president of the New York Academy of Medicine, was the honorary chairman of the event, and notable figures among the two hundred guests included Drs. Alonzo Clark, S. Weir Mitchell, Austin Flint, John Shaw Billings, Henry Jacob Bigelow, Samuel D. Gross, and William Pepper. In response to the toasts and speeches, Holmes delivered a 2,000 word poem.

Cover and menu from the souvenir booklet of the honorary dinner for Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)

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1883 April 12

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1 cover and 1 menu

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DigID0002186

DigID0002187

Gift of H. Daland Chandler to the Library of Harvard Medical School, 1951