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AL 1773.810

[ Holmes, Oliver Wensell. I

HARVARD

COLLEGE

SEP 6 1917

LIBRARY

Porcellian Club

AL 1773.310

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by
OLIVER WENDELL HOLNEP,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

31-246
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THE AUTOCRAT'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

THE interruption referred to in the first sentence of the first of these papers was just a quarter of a century in duration.

Two articles entitled "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" will be found in the "New England Magazine," formerly published in Boston by J. T. and E. Buckingham. The date of the first of these articles is November 1831, and that of the second February 1832. When "The Atlantic Monthly" was begun, twentyfive years afterwards, and the author was asked to write for it, the recollection of these crude products of his uncombed literary boyhood suggested the thought that it would be a curious experiment to shake the same bough again, and see if the ripe fruit were better or worse than the early windfalls.

So began this series of papers, which nat urally brings those earlier attempts to my own notice and that of some few friends who were

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