[Rarebooks] FS: Biography of JULIA WARD HOWE with MANUSCRIPT Page on the Subject of Women's Suffrage

[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 with 
gilt-lettered leather spine labels. Copy #236 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 22 lines of over 100 
words, apparently the first page of a speech she was giving to women on 
the subject of women's suffrage. In part: "But, when I am here to ask 
for justice to all the women of our community.... They are not afraid of 
us, but of their sex in general." Illustrated with plates and portraits, 
including a facsimile manuscript of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." 
Owner's inscriptions on both front endpapers: "Elizabeth Walker 
Pontefract/from/Jean Charters Pontefract/June 1916." The Pontefracts 
were related to the Childs and Howe families by marriage; Thomas 
Marshall Howe, one of Pittsburgh's leading citizens of the late 19th 
century, was a distant cousin of Julia Ward Howe. Winner of the 1917 
Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Manuscript pages by Howe concerning 
women's rights are quite desirable. Spine labels a bit dried and with 
some cracking; light wear and darkening to the covers. About Very Good, 
lacking the dustwrappers and slipcase. (#021230)        $750

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