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Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress Manuscript Division, 2009
Finding aid URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009026
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.
The papers of Julia Ward Howe, author and reformer, were given to the Library of Congress by her daughter, Maud Howe Elliott, and by Mary Lieber, 1937-1950.
The papers of Julia Ward Howe were arranged and described in 1979. The finding aid was revised in 2005.
Musical scores have been transferred to the Library's Music Division where they are identified as part of these papers.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Julia Ward Howe is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Julia Ward Howe are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Julia Ward Howe Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Date | Event |
| 1819, May 27 | Born, New York, N. Y. |
| 1843 | Married Samuel Gridley Howe (died 1876) |
| 1843-1844 | Toured Europe with her husband |
| 1852-1853 | Wrote articles for the Free Soil journal, The Commonwealth |
| 1854 | Published anonymously Passion-Flowers. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields |
| 1857 | Published
The World's Own. Boston: Ticknor and
Fields Published Words for the Hour. Boston: Ticknor and Fields |
| 1859 | Visited Cuba |
| 1860 | Published A Trip to Cuba. Boston: Ticknor and Fields |
| 1861 | Wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" to the rhythm of "John Brown's Body;" published in Atlantic Monthly, Feb. 1862 |
| 1864 | Edited The Boatswain's Whistle in Boston |
| 1866 | Published Later Lyrics. Boston: J. E. Tilton |
| 1867 | Toured Europe |
| 1868 | Published
From the Oak to the Olive. Boston: Lee &
Shepard Elected president of the New England Woman Suffrage Association |
| 1869 | Delivered suffrage addresses to a committee of the Massachusetts legislature and to the American Woman Suffrage Association convention in Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1870 | Wrote "An Appeal to Womanhood Throughout the World" to
promote peace Delivered her first sermon from a pulpit, Harrisburg, Pa. Elected president of New England Woman's Club |
| 1871 | Chosen president, American Branch of the Woman's International Peace Association |
| 1872-1879 | Edited with others The Woman's Journal |
| 1873 | Organized the Woman's Liberal Christian Union, Boston,
Mass., for women preachers Joined the Association for the Advancement of Women |
| 1874 | Published Sex and Education. Boston: Roberts Brothers |
| 1876 | Published Memoir of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe. Boston: Printed by A. J. Wright |
| 1877-1879 | Toured Europe and the Middle East |
| 1881 | Published Modern Society. Boston: Roberts Brothers |
| 1883 | Published Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli). Boston: Roberts Brothers. |
| 1884-1885 | President, Department of Woman's Work of the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans, La. |
| 1888 | Lectured across the American West |
| 1891 | Proposed that citizenship tests be given for new immigrant voters, Association for the Advancement of Women convention, Grand Rapids, Mich. |
| 1895 | Published Is Polite Society Polite? Boston: Lamson, Wolffe |
| 1898 | Published From Sunset Ridge. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin |
| 1899 | Published Reminiscences, 1819-1899. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin |
| 1907 | First woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters |
| 1910, Oct. 17 | Died, Newport, R. I. |
The papers of Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) span the years 1845-1917 and consist of correspondence, speeches and writings, and miscellany. The collection documents Howe's activities in behalf of causes and organizations ranging from an international peace appeal to women to the dedication of a new building at the Framingham Normal School. Her letters and writings reflect the reactions of a reformer and her associates to the events and developments of the late nineteenth century.
The correspondence file, consisting of letters sent and received from 1861 to1917, includes letters from Howe's family, a letter from the Unitarian minister W. H. Channing, and a letter from Howe to the political scientist Francis Lieber. The largest amount of correspondence concerns Howe's role as director of the woman's department at the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1884-1885. A letter to her daughter, Maud Howe Elliott, from A. J. Bloor of the United States Sanitary Commission concerns his association with Howe during the Civil War.
The speeches and writings include sermons, lectures, articles, two notebooks, two plays, and a volume of poetry. Although sermons based on Bible verses predominate, there are also a large number of lectures on philosophical themes and other topics including women's rights, education of African Americans in the South, European immigration, and prison reform. The notebooks contain Howe's thoughts on theological and ethical matters. The playsin the collection are "The Parlor Macbeth" and a typescript copy of "Hippolytus" written by Howe about 1859-1860 at the request of Edwin Booth, who later declined to produce it. "Poems in Memory of Harry," written in 1845-1846 by Howe to express her grief over her brother's death five years earlier, was given by her to Francis Lieber, who added some notes at the end of the volume.
Also included are notes, fragments, and printed matter. The notes are mostly undated and untitled and consist of minutes of meetings, fragments of speeches, and personal reflections. Among the printed matter are a copy of Howe's "Appeal to Womanhood throughout the World," in French, and an autographed copy of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," published on her seventieth birthday. In her later years, Howe frequently copied this poem for friends and acquaintances, and some of these copies are to be found in various repositories, including the Music Division of the Library of Congress.
This collection is arranged alphabetically by type of material.
| Container | Contents | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOX 1 | Correspondence, 1861-1917, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Notes and fragments, 1871, 1888, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Printed matter, 1870-1910, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Speeches and writings | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | "Abide in Me...," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Address before the Free Religious Association, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | "Address, Framingham Normal School," Framingham, Mass., undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | "Address in a Prison," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Address on Christianity, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Address on religion considered as the essential expression of relations between God and man, including draft of letter to Miss Chapin, 1873, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Address to a women's organization, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Address to the Association for the Advancement of Women, [1893] | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | "Address to the Brooklyn, Conn., Parish," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Address to the League of Reform, New York, N.Y., undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Address to the Unitarian Convention, Saragoga, N.Y., undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | Address to the Universalist Mission, [1904] | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | "Advantages & Disadvantages of a State Church," [1900?] | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | "After the Fire, a Still Small Voice," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | "And God Saw Everything...," [1907] | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | "And He Opened the Book...," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | "And I Know That...," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | "And I Say Also...," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | "And Yet He Left...," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | "And You Hath He Quickened...," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | "Behold I create...," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 1 | "Behold Peter...," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | "Blessed Are They That Mourn...," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | [Brook farm], undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | "Clouds & Darkness...," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | "Culture," undated | ||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | "The Dear Lord Said: 'Feed My Lambs,'" undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | [A Dip into the South], 1898 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | "Distinctions between Philosophy and Religion," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | "The Dominion of the Church," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | "Doubt and Belief," address to the Radical Club, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | "An Early Paper," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | [Education], [1904] | ||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | "Emerson Centennial: Human Progress in the 19th Century," 1903 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | "Ethical Office of the Drama," [1902] | ||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | "For He Knew What...," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | "For I Have Given You...," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | "For If the Trumpet...," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 2 | [For Quincy Mansion School], [1901, 1905] | ||||||||||||
| BOX 3 | "For the Fasion of This World...," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 3 | "For the Things Seen...," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 3 | "Freely Ye Have Received...," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 3 | "The Glory That Shall Be Revealed," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 3 | "God Hath Not Left...," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 3 | "Great God! What Are We...," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 3 | "The Halfness of Nature," 1875 | ||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 3 | "Hippolytus," playscript, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 3 | "I Am Come...," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 3 | "I Am the Light...," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 3 | "I Began My Ethical Studies...," notebook, 1890 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 3 | "I Have Overcome...," [1872?] | ||||||||||||
| BOX 3 | "I Will Arise...," 1895 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 3 | [Immortality], undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 3 | "Is Not the Life...," undated | ||||||||||||
| (2 copies; copies vary) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 3 | "The Kingdom of Heaven...," [1872?] | ||||||||||||
| BOX 3 | "The Liberty Wherewith...," including letters from G. H. Norcross and Thomas Dana, 1871, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 3 | "Life Under Three Aspects," 1884 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 4 | "Moral Trigonometry, III," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 4 | "Moving forces," part of a series of philosophical papers on limitations, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 4 | "My Mind Often Occupies...," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 4 | "My Tears Have Been...," 1903 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 4 | "Not Servants, but Friends," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 4 | "Now That Our Gospel...," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 4 | [The old and new in education], [1890?] | ||||||||||||
| BOX 4 | [On Louisa Alcott], address to Colonial Dames, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 4 | "Optimism and Pessimism...," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 4 | "The Parlor Macbeth," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 4 | [Patriotism in American literature], undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 4 | "Poems in Memory of Harry," with notes at end of the volume by Francis Lieber, [1845-1846] | ||||||||||||
| BOX 4 | "Polarity, II," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 4 | "The Practical Uses of Philosophy," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 5 | "Progress of the Liberal Movement in Religoin," 1900 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 5 | "Proteus," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 5 | "Racial Problems in Europe," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 5 | "Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Author," [1903] | ||||||||||||
| BOX 5 | "Religious Power," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 5 | [Rest], [1893] | ||||||||||||
| BOX 5 | Sermon on the continuity of divine providence, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 5 | [Society], published under the title The Salon in America, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 5 | "Solitude & Religion," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 5 | Theological notebook, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 5 | "These Things Write I...," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 5 | Untitled, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 5 | "The Uses of Victory," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 5 | "What Is the Kingdom of Heaven?" [1872?] | ||||||||||||
| BOX 5 | "What Shall It Profit...," undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 5 | "The Wise Woman...," 1889 | ||||||||||||
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