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The Holmes-Sheehan Correspondence. The Letters of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Canon Patrick Augustine Sheehan.
Burton, David Henry; Holmes, Oliver Wendell; Sheehan, P. A.
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Description for The Holmes-Sheehan Correspondence. The Letters of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Canon Patrick Augustine Sheehan.
Hardback. The friendship of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, noted US jurist, and the Irish clerical savant, Canon Patrick Sheehan, operated largely through these letters, written from 1903 until Sheehan's death in 1913. They discussed with equal insight issues such as faith, the economic man, and the classics. Num Pages: 96 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJC; BGA; HPC; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 321.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., distinguished American jurist, and Patrick Augustine Sheehan, an Irish clerical-savant, enjoyed a warm and notable friendship based largely on their exchange of letters from 1903, when they first met in Ireland, until 1913, the year of Sheehan's death. This correspondence illuminates what is otherwise a largely hidden and little appreciated side of the mind and faith of Justince Holmes. Sheehan was able to draw from his friend an awareness and sympathy for human frailty and its counterpoint, faith in a divine plan of earthly things, thoughts and feelings that surfaced in letters to other of his ... Read more
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., distinguished American jurist, and Patrick Augustine Sheehan, an Irish clerical-savant, enjoyed a warm and notable friendship based largely on their exchange of letters from 1903, when they first met in Ireland, until 1913, the year of Sheehan's death. This correspondence illuminates what is otherwise a largely hidden and little appreciated side of the mind and faith of Justince Holmes. Sheehan was able to draw from his friend an awareness and sympathy for human frailty and its counterpoint, faith in a divine plan of earthly things, thoughts and feelings that surfaced in letters to other of his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823215256
SKU
V9780823215256
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About Burton, David Henry; Holmes, Oliver Wendell; Sheehan, P. A.
David H. Burton is Professor of History at St. Joseph's University. He is author of several biographies and books on American intellectual history including Political Ideas of Justice Holmes.
Reviews for The Holmes-Sheehan Correspondence. The Letters of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Canon Patrick Augustine Sheehan.
"Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. still holds his place as the most interesting of American lawyers and judges. This correspondence with a Roman Catholic parish priest in Ireland is a slight record of ten years of unexpectedly sympathetic friendship." -Law Books in Review