THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Excerpt from The Autocrat's Autobiography
The interruption referred to in the first sentence of the first of these papers was just a quarter of a century in duration.
Two articles entitled "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" will be found in the "New England Magazine," formerly published in Boston by J. T. and E. Buckingham. The date of the first of these articles is November 1831, and that of the second February 1832. When "The Atlantic Monthly" was begun, twenty-five years afterwards, and the author was asked to...