We are sorry to learn that in the spring the Holmes' house, in spite of all its associations, is to be removed or torn down. We are not rich enough in America in historical monuments and memories to let so noteworthy a building go without a protest. Here was the headquarters of General Artemus Ward, during the first days of the Revolution. In its corners are the dents of revolutionary muskets stacked there by the patriot soldiers. Here, also, Oliver Wendell Holmes, America's greatest wit and one of her most charming writers, was born. Loosely bound to the past and with but few historical associations, the loss of so famous a building would be irreparable. Misfortune through it be, we fear the Holmes house is doomed, and that after this year we shall never see the only monument in Cambridge which brings back our past vividly to us, and is, as it were, a link to the America of a hundred years ago.
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