The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

£3,500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

First edition of the Riverside Press Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe. No. 231 of 250 copies. Vol 1 signed “Harriet Beecher Stowe / Jan ^y^ 8th 1896” on a special leaf “written specially for this edition a few months before her death”. Lacking the final two volumes: (XIV) Stories, Sketches and Studies (XVI) and Stories, Sketches for the Young. A handsome inscribed set with an interesting note from Stowe’s sister-in-law, Eunice White Beecher, to The Standard Union newspaper (of Brooklyn) loosely inserted in the first volume refuting the suggestion that Harriet Beecher Stowe had been placed in an asylum. The note (written on two small slips of paper) reads: “To / “The Standard Union” / It has been reported in several papers that Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe had been placed in an Asylum - I wrote at once to her daughters to learn if this was true and last evening received the reply - assuring me that the report was utterly false, that Mrs Stowe had been since August very much better than she had been since she broke down eight years ago. If you will kindly contradict the report of her failure you will greatly oblige. Yours respectfully / Mrs Henry Ward Beecher / The Plymouth / 71 Orange Street / Brooklyn” The reports of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s supposed mental health crisis appeared in various US newspapers in 1895 suggesting that Stowe had been placed in a mental asylum. Stowe famously suffered from poor mental health towards the end of her life, most likely suffering from (what w

• Year: 1896

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