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BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN. Autograph letter signed to Bradford R. Wood, New York, 25 February 1866. 8 pages, 8vo . A fine, impassioned letter on the equal rights of the recently emancipated slaves: "I utterly detest the narrow principles of that party which denied equal rights to any of our fellow men on account of race. The right of suffrage is the due of the negro as well as of the white man...." -- BRYANT. Autograph quotation signed of the last 8 lines of "Thanatopsis," n.p., 21 January 1878, 1 page, oblong 4to -- BRYANT. Autograph quotation signed, "Truth crushed to earth shall side against..." New York, 18 May 1878, 1 page, oblong 4to . Together 3 items, each tipped to larger sheet -- HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. Cabinet photo signed "Oliver Wendell Holmes," Boston, 18 March 1892, 142 x 108 mm., (5 x 4 in.), slight wear -- HOLMES. Autograph letter signed, Boston, 13 March 1891, 1 page, 4to . Response to an admirer -- HOLMES. Autograph quotation signed, n.p., 18 March 1891. 1 page, 4to , FROM "THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS": "Build thee more stately mansions, O My Soul As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!" -- Autograph quotation signed, Boston, 15 May 1888, 1 page, oblong 4to , "Lord of the Universe, shield us and guide us, Trusting Thee always through shadow and sun! Thou hast united us, - who whall divide us? Keep us, O keep us the many in one!" Together 7 items . (7)