What tranquil joy his friendly presence gives!

Printed in brown on heavy tan paper; colored illustration of yellow frame house pasted on broadside above text. Title from first line of two-line excerpt from At the Saturday Club by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Type-signed at end of couplet: Holmes.

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Original record: What tranquil joy his friendly presence gives!
Collection: Harris Broadsides
Date(s): 1807 – 1882
1910
Usage: Collection is open for research.
Rights Statement: No Copyright - United States
Creator(s): Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 (creator)
Subject(s): Broadsides
Broadsides (Notices)
Buildings Cambridge
Death in poetry
Homes and haunts
Illinois
Joliet
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Massachusetts
Poetry
United States
Type: text

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