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Howard, Oliver Otis, 1830-1909 to J. Bok

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05508.135 Author/Creator: Howard, Oliver Otis, 1830-1909 Place Written: San Francisco, California Type: Letter signed Date: 8 March 1888 Pagination: 4 p. : Height: 19.9 cm, Width: 12.2 cm Order a Copy

Howard received the Beecher Memorial and read many of the contributions. He accepted the book as thanks for his contribution. He believes Mrs. Holloway's article best captured Beecher in concise and comprehensive terms. He also refuses to write an anticipatory obituary. His own death gives him no apprehension: " 'To live is Christ, to die is gain.' "

Howard, Oliver Otis, 1830-1909
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887

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