Holograph translation into English by American transcendentalist and abolitionist Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, of Martial's 'Venisti centum', beginning 'I kept my bed; to ease my pain'.

On both sides of white card, 6.5 x 10 cm, with three lines in Latin (beginning 'Venisti centum') on one side, signed at foot 'H. B. Sanborn | Concord Feb 17. 1886', and the English translation in six lines on the other side, also signed at foot: 'F. B. Sanborn | Concord Feby 17 '86'. The translation reads: 'I kept my bed; to ease my pain | You came, good doctor, with your train; | A hundred hands, colder than Boston greeting, | Fingered my pulse to count its languid beating. | I had no fever, Dr Puff! | But now I have one, sure enough.' The translation was published in the same year in the New England Medical Gazette.