JULIA WARD HOWE - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 2/12 - HFSID 5740
Price: $700.00
JULIA WARD HOWE
Invitation to tea addressed to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who shared
her literary and reform enthusiasms, and also shared a place with her in Civil
War history
Autograph Letter Signed: "Julia W. Howe", 1½ pages, 4½x3½
card, front and verso. 241 Beacon Street, Boston, no year, February
12, Monday. To Colonel Higginson. In full: "I will come if I can
find the Mss in question. I will hunt for it tomorrow. Could you (all three)
come in on Thursday afternoon 15th Feb. for a cup of tea?" Entire letter and
signature on one side. Handwritten postscript on verso: "PS. Mr
Sutherland has ceased from troubling me. You or the Judge must have
administered soothing syrup." JULIA WARD HOWE (1819-1910) wrote
"Battle Hymn of the Republic" in 1862, following visits to army camps in
Washington, D.C. Also a writer of poems and essays, Howe was a leader in
Boston's woman's suffrage movement. THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON
(1823-1911), a Union Colonel of a Black regiment during the Civil War, was a
writer, editor and supporter of woman's suffrage. In the 1870s, Howe and
Higginson were contributors to "Woman's Journal", founded by Lucy Stone and
edited by Mary Livermore. Lightly creased and soiled. Name written (unknown
hand) at lower right margin of verso. Overall, fine condition.
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