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Excerpt from Oliver Wendell Holmes
August 29th, 1809, in the historic town we called it then a Village -of Cambridge, Massa chusetts. Cambridge then differed very widely from what it is to-day 1 Lowell, ten years the junior of Holmes, has described in his Fireside Travels 2 the Cambridge of his boyhood; and from his descriptions we can easily conjure up a picture of the country village, with its own habits and traditions, yet with some of that cloistered quiet which characterises all university towns Let those who are greatly interested in the early life of Oliver Wendell Holmes turn to the first pages of The Poet at the Breakfast Table and there re read the beautiful story of the Gambrel - roofed House my birthplace, the home of my child hood, and earlier and later boyhood.
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