[Rarebooks] FS: The First Pulitzer Prize in Biography JULIA WARD HOWE with an Original Page of Manuscript

[Charles Agvent]

On this day in 1917, the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded. The first 
Pulitzer for biography was awarded to Laura E. Richards and Maude H. 
Elliott for their collaborative biography of their mother, Julia Ward 
Howe.  Here is an excellent example of the limited edition with an 
ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT PAGE completely in Howe's hand.

[HOWE, Julia Ward] RICHARDS, Laura and ELLIOTT, Maud Howe. JULIA WARD 
HOWE 1819 - 1910. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. 
First Edition. Two volumes in original cloth-backed boards. Copy #392 of 
450 copies of the Large-Paper Edition with a numbered (3) leaf of Howe's 
unsigned AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT tipped in by the publisher. Though not 
directly making a statement about women's rights, a favorite subject of 
Howe's, this 20-line manuscript seems to be part of an argument for 
equal treatment of women. In full: "...difficulties will have to be 
imagined by me. I know there are difficulties connected with the 
treatment of this question, for I have encountered them myself. But if 
we try to think at all in the direction of progress, are we not [?] [?] 
encounter difficulties? Look at the opposition which any acknowledged 
doctrine makes to a new one. We [?] slowly & unwillingly mankind [?] 
find out that they have been in the wrong. The [?] doing its best to [?] 
& [?], see the old systems of astronomy reluctantly giving place to the 
Copernican system. With Europe holding on to aristocratic traditions," 
Illustrated with plates and portraits, including a facsimile manuscript 
of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Winner of the 1917 Pulitzer Prize 
for Biography. Some fraying to the spine tips and rubbing. Very Good. 
(#016168)        $400.00

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