(HOWE, Julia Ward)

ORDER OF EXERCISES. Howe Family Gathering at Harmony Grove, South Framingham, [Mass.] August 31, 1871. [Caption title]

Boston: C.T. Evans & Son, Printers, 106 Washington St. [1871]. First edition. Single sheet, folded to 28 x 23 cm., [4] pp. Old folds, one small hole. For the program of events Julia Ward Howe offered a song and an address. Her song is printed with music on p. [2], along with two other songs composed for the occasion by other family members (Mary R. Howe Hinckley and Caroline Dana Howe). Accompanied by a nearly identical sized announcement of "A Grand Meeting of the Howe Family," [4] pp., and including a page of time tables for trains going to Framingham, plus an early genealogy and a [2] pp. description of the proposed celebration. BAL 9438. OCLC: AAS, Boston Public, MA Hist. Soc., Brown Univ. Not mentioning additional sheet. Item #67607

Price: $450.00