Lot 275
Howe, Julia Ward (1819-1910) Poet, essayist, lecturer, reformer and biographer, best known as the author of "Battle Hymn of the Republic." She worked to end slavery, helped to initiate the women's movement in many states, and organized for international peace. In 1908 she became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Autograph letter signed, 2pp, 7½ x 5", Boston, Jan. 17, 1876. Fine. Acknowledging a note of condolence upon the death of her husband, Samuel Gridley Howe, who had taken part in the Greek Revolution and was head of the Perkins Institution for the Blind. In part, "I am very glad that, in my dear husband's funeral services, the thoughts and emblems of victory overtoppled those of mortality. This best victory we may hope to share with him, in which the final rout of our physical powers is only the prelude to the immortal morning." One would never know that some 20 years earlier, she had written in her diary, "I have never known my husband to approve of any act of mine which I myself valued. Books--poems--essays--everything has been contemptible in his eyes because not his way of doing things."
Estimated Value $400 - 600.
The Arden Family Holdings of Beverly Hills.
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