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HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

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HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>HARRIET BEECHER STOWE </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'><BR><BR></span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>“Eager For Truth Wherever To Be Found”</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'><BR><BR>(1811-1896). Passionate abolitionist author of <i>Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly</i> (1851), a scathing indictment of slavery and credited with helping to precipitate the Civil War. ALS “<i>H.B.Stowe</i>,” 1½pp, 8vo, Andover, Jul 17, 1860. Letter of introduction on lightly lined letter paper to Christian Socialist F.D. Maurice in England. “<i>I hope you will not consider me as straining too much the privilege of a short acquaintance in so often giving letters of introduction to those in our country who have read your works with interest and are desirous of making your personal acquaintance. Our friend Mr. Wright has for two years been a student of theology & exegesis in the institution with which my husband is connected </i>[Andover Theological Seminary] <i>and goes abroad to enlarge his sphere of thought and study —he has a bright active mind & is eager for truth wherever to be found.</i>..” Boldly penned and signed. Light mounting stains and traces in margins of recto of minimal affect; also on verso with light abrasion and some show-through on blank integral leaf; partial fold separation with no paper loss; small printed identification laid to bottom edge of second page, else VG.</span></p>