[Rarebooks] FS: Superb Julia Ward Howe AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION about Mothers

[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 a great Mother's Day gift.         $1,000.00

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