Autograph letter signed Julia Ward Howe to: "John W. Tufts Esq. My dear Sir" May 19, [1887].
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Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910
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Julia Ward Howe, née Julia Ward, (born May 27, 1819, New York, New York, U.S.—died October 17, 1910, Newport, Rhode Island), American author and lecturer best known for her “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Julia Ward came of a well-to-do family and was educated privately. In 1843 she married educator Samuel Gridley Howe and took up residence in Boston. Always of a literary bent, she published her first volume of poetry, Passion Flowers, in 1854; this and subsequent works—including a poetry collec...
Tufts, John W. (John Wheeler), 1825-1908
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Biography is taken from The New Grove Dictionary of American Music . Article by William Osborne. John Wheeler Tufts was born on May 12, 1825 in Dover, New Hampshire. He was a music educator and organist. After studying in Frankfurt and Leipzig, he settled in Bangor and then Portland, Maine, where he was active as a church organist and conductor of a choral society that he had organized. About 1880, he moved to Boston, where he served as organist of Kings Chapel for 15 ye...
