Author, suffragette, dramatist, poet, and biographer (1819–1910), best remembered as the lyricist of “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” AQS on an off-white 6.25 x 7.5 sheet expertly inlaid into a larger sheet, signed “Julia Ward Howe” and dated May 18, 1897. Howe pens two stanzas from her poem “Our Country”: “Oh! Exile of the wrath of Kings,/Oh! Pilgrim ark of Liberty!/The refuge of divinest things,/Their record must abide in thee. To link thy ways to those of God,/To follow firm the heavenly laws/That stars may greet thee, warrior-browed,/And storm-sped angels hail thy cause.” Subtle brush to two words of text, otherwise very fine, clean condition. LOA John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and R&R COA.
