LADY'S ALMANAC FOR THE YEAR 1865

Boston: Published by George Coolidge, No. 3 Milk Street/ (Printed by Geo. C. Rand & Avery), 1864. First edition, for the year of 1865, printing Civil War-related essays and poetry. pp. [7](ads), 128, [7](ads), illustrated (in black-and-white, with engraved vignettes, pictorial title page and numberous advertisements, some pictorial). 32mo (measuring 4 1/2 by 2 7/8 inches). Embossed blue cloth, spine and front cover stamped in gilt,Light wear to binding at tips of spine, few spots of discoloration on front and rear covers, front and rear hinges started (but intact and securely bound), else a very good copy, with the binding tight, text very fresh and clean. First edition, for the year of 1865, printing Civil War-related essays and poetry. pp. [7](ads), 128, [7](ads), illustrated (in black-and-white, with engraved vignettes, pictorial title page and numberous advertisements, some pictorial). 32mo (measuring 4 1/2 by 2 7/8 inches). 1865 LADY'S ALMANAC, PRINTING "NEW ENGLAND WOMEN'S LEAGUE, FOR DIMINISHING THE USE OF LUXURIES DURING THE WAR"
(Printing statement by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Julia Ward Howe [et al]). Contains the first appearance of "New England Women's League, for Diminishing the Use of Luxuries During the War," a letter, dated "Boston, July 4, 1864," beginning, "We, the undersigned, women of the United States, impelled by a deep sense of the peril of our beloved country, and of the sacrifices and sufferings of our brave soldiers... by Mrs. H[arriet] Beecher Stowe [not in BAL, which does note entries, under Stowe, for 'The Lady's Almanac for the Year 1866,' 1868, and 1869 [see BAL, Vol. VIII, p. 126; not in Hildreth, which does note other Stowe appearances in anthologies and annuals], Mrs. Julia Ward Howe and numerous other women. Also prints "Address to the Women of New England," and John G. Whittier's abolitionist poem, "What the Birds Said" [BAL 21853], "Snow" by Mrs. Akers, "Longing for Rain" and "Day Lilies" by Harriet McEwen Kimball, "Love" by Jean Inglow (from her poem, "Afternoon at the Parsonage"), "The Invalid Corps" by Harriet Woods, "Arthur's Wife" by Phoebe Cary [BAL 2901], "An Appeal to the Patriotic Women of America" by "A Woman" [signed in type, "H. C. Ingersol," and dated April 18, 1864], "Scenes in the Hospital" [by Mrs. Harriet E. Francis], "Old Maid" by H. W. Beecher, poems by Mrs. Sarah W. Brooks and numerous anonymous contributions, including "Come Sunshine, Come! translated [by Frederic S. Cozzens] from the French of Charles Vincent" [BAL 4006]. Also contains the usual 19th-century subject materials of almanacs, including lunar and solar cycles, monthly calendars, with blanks for daily memoranda or diary entries, etc. Light wear to binding at tips of spine, few spots of discoloration on front and rear covers, front and rear hinges started (but intact and securely bound), else a very good copy, with the binding tight, text very fresh and clean. An uncommon issue of the 'Lady's Almanac' annuals;An uncommon issue of the 'Lady's Almanac' annuals;

OCLC locates four holdings of this individual issue [Harvard, Wellesley, NYPL and Rochester]. This 1865 issue prints a letter from the New England Women's League, by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Julia Ward Howe (among others), encouraging New England women to be frugal, and to forego luxuries, during the Civil War.