The following letter from Dr. Holmes refers to the work, which is receiving such unbounded favor, on "Harvard and its Surroundings," by Moses King, compiler and publisher:-

296 BEACON STREET, BOSTON,June 24, 1878.DEAR SIR: I find your little book a very satisfactory guide to the most interesting Cambridge localities, well written, well arranged, and exceedingly well illustrated. I must not praise it as if I had carefully studied all its details, but I am disposed to be something more than pleased to see so compact, so well-filled, so handsomely presented a manual for the use of the stranger in the University city, - one too which the native of the town will find to contain much that he has forgotten and not a little which he has never known.

Yours very truly,

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.