@article{1478167,
      recid = {1478167},
      author = {Burton, David H., },
      title = {The Holmes-Sheehan Correspondence : The Letters of Justice  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Canon Patrick Augustine  Sheehan /},
      pages = {1 online resource (96 p.)},
      abstract = {Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., distinguished American jurist,  and Patrick Augustine Sheehan, an Irish clerical-savant,  enjoyed a warm and notable friendship based largely on  their exchange of letters from 1903, when they first met in  Ireland, until 1913, the year of Sheehan's death. This  correspondence illuminates what is otherwise a largely  hidden and little appreciated side of the mind and faith of  Justince Holmes. Sheehan was able to draw from his friend  an awareness and sympathy for human frailty and its  counterpoint, faith in a divine plan of earthly things,  thoughts and feelings that surfaced in letters to other of  his friends. The importance of this edition of the  Holmes-Sheehan letters rests in the first instance on this  discovery. But Canon Sheehan wsa no mere foil for Holmes as  they discussed with equal insight issues as varied as the  economic man and the age of faith, of classical works,  including Dante's Divine Comedy and Pascal's Pensees.  Holmes discovered in the Canon a man of the most profound  faith who remained open and tolerant of the beliefs and  non-beliefs of others. He is better understood because of  his affection for Sheehan, and, no less telling, because of  the Canon's admiration for him. Gary J. Aichele in Oliver  Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Soldier, Scholar, Judge finds this set  of letters "perhaps the most unusual" of any collection of  Holmes correspondence published to date.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478167},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823296842},
}