[Rarebooks] FS: James Russell Lowell MANUSCRIPT Honoring Harvard’s Civil War Heroes

[Charles Agvent]

LOWELL, James Russell. AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS). Deerfoot Farm, 
11 January 1886. On a 4-1/2" x 6-3/4" sheet of paper Lowell has written 
out the last 8 lines of his long poem “Ode Recited at the Harvard 
Commemoration, July 21, 1865,” written for and read at the Commemoration 
Day exercises at Harvard College on that day, an event especially 
honoring Harvard’s Civil War heroes. Undoubtedly for a special 
recipient, Harvard alumnus Lowell quotes the concluding lines and SIGNED 
and dated it below. Inspired by this Civil War Commemoration, Harvard’s 
famous Memorial Hall, in high Victorian Gothic style, was erected to 
commemorate graduates who died for the Union during the War. Funds 
raised to build the great hall totaled over $400,000, then equal to 
one-twelfth of Harvard’s total endowment.

What words divine of lover or of poet
Could tell our love & make Thee know it,
Among the Nations bright beyond compare?
What were our lives without thee?
What all our lives to save thee?
We reck not what we gave thee;
We will not dare to doubt thee,
But, ask whatever else, & we will dare!

Minor stains from mounting on verso. Boldly written and attractive. 
About Fine. (#020979)        $600

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