Menu and program from Delmonico's dinner
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Title
Menu and program from Delmonico's dinner
Subject
Covers
Menus
Programs (documents)
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
Delmonnico's Restaurant (New York, N.Y.)
Description
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.
Abstract
Cover and menu from the souvenir booklet of the honorary dinner for Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
Creator
Unknown
Date Created
1883 April 12
Rights
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Access Rights
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Is Part Of
Havard Medical Library Rare Books Collection (1.Mh.1883.H)
Format
text
Extent
1 cover and 1 menu
Language
English
Type
text
Identifier
DigID0002186
DigID0002187
Provenance
Gift of H. Daland Chandler to the Library of Harvard Medical School, 1951
Files
Collection
Citation
Unknown, “Menu and program from Delmonico's dinner,” OnView, accessed April 28, 2024, https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/6334.