The Holmes-Sheehan Correspondence: The Letters of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Canon Patrick Augustine Sheehan

by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Book Overview

This warm and affectionate collection of letters exchanged between Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American jurist, and Patrick Augustine Sheehan, Irish priest, enhances the reputation of Holmes as one of the great letter writers in American history and illuminates the highly complex and controversial "mind and faith" of Justice Holmes in new and significant ways. Holmes, the man of science, and Sheehan, the man of God, face each other in these letters,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823215253
• ISBN13: 9780823215256
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.8"