JULIA WARD HOWE - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 05/23/1903 - HFSID 161408
Price: $700.00
JULIA WARD HOWE
Ward handwrote, signed and dated this letter to a Miss Cleveland from
Boston in 1903 to let her know that she will send "a little message for your
meeting."
Autograph letter signed "Julia Ward Howe". 1 page, 3¾x6.
Boston, Massachusetts, May 23, 1903. Addressed to "Miss
Cleveland". In full: "Dear Miss Cleveland I send on another
[illegible] paper, a little message for your meeting. Your's truly".
Howe (1819-1910, born in New York City), a social reformer and poet,
is best known for writing the poem The Battle Hymn of the Republic,
which she was inspired to write after visiting army camps in Washington,
D.C. during the Civil War. Howe's poem, first published in the February 1862
issue of The Atlantic Monthly, was later set to music to the tune of the
popular antislavery song John Brown's Body and became the unofficial
song of the Union Army. Howe later turned her fervor against slavery into a
crusade for women's rights. She was a co-founder (1868) and first
President of the New England Woman's Suffrage Association, co-led (with Lucy
Stone) the American Woman Suffrage Association (1869) and founded the
Women's International Peace Association (1871). In 1870, Howe assisted Stone
and her husband, Henry Blackwell, to establish the Woman's Journal, and
served as an editor and writer for the publication for 20 years. Howe, who also
wrote poems for other women's journals and founded the Boston Authors
Club, was the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and
Letters (1908). Lightly toned and foxed. Light impressions near bottom edge,
possibly from postmark, which touch return address but not signature or
handwriting. Folded once and unfolded. Otherwise in fine
condition.
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