Jun 17, 2021 - Sale 2573

Sale 2573 - Lot 64

Price Realized: $ 228
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(SUFFRAGISTS.) Two Autograph Letters Signed: Julia Ward Howe * Jane Addams. Howe. To her publishers ("Roberts Brothers"), acknowledging receipt of a royalty check for her Margaret Fuller (1883). Verso bears ink stamp of a collector of antiques: "Miss Eleanor Hudson / Winchester Mass". 1 page, oblong 12mo; short closed tear at lower edge touching text, moderate marginal discoloration from prior matting, remnants of hinging at upper edge verso. Addams. To "Dear Miss Johnson," conveying a plan to convene the Chicago Settlements for a talk by [Graham?] Taylor on his experience with settlements in Britain. 1 page, 8vo, "Hull-House" stationery, with integral blank; some loss to lower right corner (not affecting text), moderate toning overall, short closed separations at folds, faint marginal discoloration from prior matting. Boston, 22 January 1895; Chicago, 30 December 1903

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Addams, 1903: "Miss [Gertrude?] Barnum asks that the Fed[eration] of Chicago Settlements be called & Saturday . . . Jan'y 9th at three thirty Prof Taylor will speak of his settlement experience in England."