[Rarebooks] FS: Julia Ward Howe: "I no longer believe in [suffrage] as an abstract right to be dreamed of by Washington

[Charles Agvent]

[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 and the 
scarce dustwrappers and original slipcase. Copy #438 of 450 copies of 
the Large-Paper Edition with a leaf of Howe's unsigned AUTOGRAPH 
MANUSCRIPT tipped in by the publisher, this example with 18 lines and 
concerning Suffrage. In part: "I began with saying that I believe in 
suffrage. I believed in it, with incorrigible[?] doubts, when I first 
began to work for it, perhaps fourteen years ago. I believe in it now 
without doubt or misgiving. And I no longer believe in it as an abstract 
right to be dreamed of by Washington but more to be embodied in [?] 
legislation. I believe in the great awakening...." Illustrated with 
plates and portraits, including a facsimile manuscript of "The Battle 
Hymn of the Republic." Winner of the 1917 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. 
Manuscript pages by Howe concerning women's rights are quite desirable 
and to find one in a set in this condition is a rarity indeed. Fine in 
Very Good printed white dustwrappers with edgewear and a chip at the top 
of the spine of the second volume in a complete Good slipcase with an 
old tape repair on the bottom and torn at the top. (#019648)        $750

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