I am
Faithfully yours
GEO. F. HOAR.
I got the following pleasant reply:
BEVERLY FARMS, MASS., August 30, 1889.
My dear Mr. Hoar,
Your note of felicitation upon my having reached that "length of days" which Wisdom, if I remember correctly, holds in her right hand, was the first I received and is the first I answer. Briefly, of course, but with heartfelt sincerity, for I hardly thought that you whose hand is on the wheel that governs the course of the Nation, would find time to remember so small an event as my birthday.
You cannot doubt that it was a great pleasure to me to read your name at the bottom of a page containing so much that it was kind in you to write and most agreeable for me to read.
Please accept my warmest and most grateful acknowledgments, and believe me
Faithfully yours,
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
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