Lot 168
Howe, Julia Ward - With First Printing of "Battle Hymn of the Republic". Signature on a 2¼x4½" card, with a copy of the February 1862 issue of The Atlantic Monthly (Boston: Ticknor and Firlds), containing the first printing of "Battle Hymn of the Republic." Paper covers are toned and worn, split at the spine and partially held together with old tape; the inside pages are tightly bound with string and only lightly toned. There are a few marks above "Battle Hymn of the Republic," which is printed as a poem, on the first page of the magazine, having five stanzas. This published version has a few changes from Howe's manuscript version, written in 1861, and a sixth stanza was not included. (For the story of how Mrs. Howe came to write the poem that became the most popular Northern song of the Civil War, see the description of the previous lot).
Estimated Value $2,000 - 3,000.
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