[ Fanny Garrison; suffrage; black rights ]Autograph Poem signed "Fannie Garrison" with autograph verse signed by Francis J[ackson] Garrison

Fanny Garrison [Helen Frances "Fanny" Garrison Villard (1844 1928), American women's suffrage campaigner, pacifist, co-founder of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People].

Verlag: Fannie's verse Boston Oct.21 ; Francis Jackson's verse Boston Oct.23 1860, 1860

Beschreibung

One page, 12mo, very good condition. Text, a verse from Gerald Massey's "To-Day and To-Morrow" (see note below) as follows: [Fanny's quotation marks] "Though hearts brood o'er the past, our eyes | With smiling features glisten, | For, lo! our day bursts up the skies! | Lean out your souls and listen! | The world rolls Freedom's radiant way, | And ripens with her sorrows; | Keep heart! who bears the cross to-day, | Shall wear the crown tomorrow." | Fannie Garrison. | Boston, Oct.21st, 1860 | [ 'Mrs Henry villard' in another hand ] || "Why ask a name? Small is the good it brings; | Names are but breath; deeds, deeds alone are things." | Francis J. Garrison. | Boston, Oct. 23, 1860." Note: Given the date of writing, Fanny (aged 15) probably found the poem in this publication, "Souvenir of Modern Minstrelsy: a collection of original and select poetry, by living writers" (London, 1860); Francis Jackson Garrison's lines are apparently the response of Horace Mann to a request for an autograph in 1852. Garrison, also an abolitionist in later life, was born in 1848, his age reflected in his handwriting, Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 23139

Bibliografische Details

Titel: [ Fanny Garrison; suffrage; black rights ]...

Verlag: Fannie's verse Boston Oct.21 ; Francis Jackson's verse Boston Oct.23 1860

Erscheinungsdatum: 1860