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Commemoration Ode by Harriet F. Monroe Provenance 1892 Chicago World's Fair For Sale
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Commemoration Ode by Harriet F. Monroe Provenance 1892 Chicago World's Fair :
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The Commemoration Ode (Columbian Ode) by Harriet F. Monroe with Provenance 1893 Columbian Exposition Worlds Fair in Chicago Harriet Monroe's ~ Columbian Ode and Song Book Columbia AAOK One of A Kind Hand Made Highly detailed masterwork. Gilt Lettering and Art 60 loose leaf pages Folio ***Note of Provenance is signed and dated Oct 1st, 1892. 100% Authentic. ***The Columbian Ode was written at the request of the Joint Committee on Ceremonies of the World's Columbian Exposition, accepted by that honorable body and delivered on the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America, October 21, 1892, before an audience of more than one hundred thousand persons,during the dedicatory ceremonies in the building for Manufactures and Liberal Arts. By authority of the Committee, Mr. Theodore Thomas, Director of Music, requested Prof. George W. Chadwick, of Boston, to set to music the lyric passages. The two songs, commencing, " Over the Wide Unknown," and Columbia! The inaugural ceremony on October 21, 1892, was given in Festival Hall and included 5,500 singers in the chorus, an orchestra of 200, two large military bands, and two drum corps of fifty players each. Harriet F. Monroe (26 Dec 1860 26 Sep 1936) American editor, scholar, literary critic, poet, and patron of the arts, founder of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse in October, 1912. Monroe played an important role in the development of modern poetry. Her correspondence with early twentieth century poets provides a wealth of information on their thoughts and motives. Having solidified her professional reputation as a freelance correspondent to the Chicago Tribune and through a widening circle of prominent literary acquaintances, Monroe was commissioned to write a commemorative ode for the 400th anniversary of Columbus discovery of America. She reveled in her poem, more than two years in the works, when 5,000 people joined in at an auditorium dedication ceremony at the Columbian Exposition. Monroe enjoyed even more fame after suing The New York World for publishing The Columbian Ode without her consent. She was awarded $5,000 dollars in a settlement that benefited artists. First Edition, Chicago: self-published, 1892. Harriet Monroe explained that she prepared a pamphlet edition of the poem for sale at a quarter each, and five thousand copies did not seem too many for the over sanguine author and her advisors. The Western News Company undertook to sell it, but found the dealers unresponsive. So all that winter I used the ode for fuel in the little stove which heated my bedroom-study Harriet Monroe, 1938 ~Full Insurance provided at no cost°
Commemoration Ode by Harriet F. Monroe Provenance 1892 Chicago World's Fair $50000.00
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