[Rarebooks] FS: Julia Ward Howe: Mother's Day Gift

[charles agvent]

HOWE, Julia Ward AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS)
Quatrain from an unspecified poem on a 7-1/2" x 5" sheet of paper 
SIGNED by Howe and dated 15 January 1887: "Then spake the Angel of 
Mothers/To me, in gentle tone:/'Be kind to the children of others,/And 
thus deserve thine own.'" Howe, active in the women's suffrage 
movement, is perhaps best known as the author of another poem, "The 
Battle Hymn of the Republic," written at night in a dark tent near the 
beleaguered capital of Washington at the beginning of the Civil War. 
It earned her the grand total of $4 upon its publication in THE 
ATLANTIC MONTHLY along with the added bonus of instant and lasting 
fame. Later she became president of the New England Woman Suffrage 
Association as well as the Association of the Advancement of Women. 
Howe was honored as the first woman elected to the American Academy of 
Arts and Letters in 1908, two years before her death at 91. Beautiful 
lyric, and what a great Mother's Day gift!    $1000

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