Auction Date:2010 Jun 16 @ 10:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
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AQS on a 4.25 x 6.5 sheet tipped by its left edge to the reverse of an early book portrait of Stowe, signed “Harriet Beecher Stowe, April 13, 1894.” A passage captioned in Stowe’s hand “Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Chap. 12.” In full: “Not one throb of anguish, not one tear of the oppressed is forgotten by the Man of Sorrows the Lord of Glory. In His patient generous bosom He bears the anguish of a world.” A central horizontal fold (small split to right edge), and mild soiling and wrinkling, otherwise fine condition. Accompanied by the address panel from the original mailing envelope, postmarked from Hartford, Connecticut, on the same day.
The poignant passage scripted by Stowe recounts Uncle Tom’s lament over watching a slave trader take Lucy’s baby from her and sell the infant. The woman’s grief over losing her child—and being overwhelmed by the evils of human bondage—led to her eventual suicide by drowning. The words—and the message that even those in the depths of despair or those suffering unimaginable oppression are forgotten by God—are considered one of the key passages of the book. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century, and the second best-selling book of 1800s. In the first year following its 1852 publication, 300,000 copies were sold in the United States, and the work is credited with aiding the abolitionist cause while also sharpening regional differences and perspectives about slavery. An emotional passage from one of America’s greatest pieces of literature.
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