BATES, Katherine Lee (1859-1929), poet, educator . Autograph manuscript signed ("Katherine Lee Bates"), [1915], "America the Beautiful." 2 pages, 8vo, four stanzas, laid down . [ With :] BATES. Typed letter signed ("Katherine Lee Bates"), to Miss Moulton, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 1 March 1915. 1 page, 8vo, Welleseley stationery, laid down . Enclosing copy of the present manuscript. Also with pamphlets, photos and other ephemera related to Bates's life.
BATES, Katherine Lee (1859-1929), poet, educator . Autograph manuscript signed ("Katherine Lee Bates"), [1915], "America the Beautiful." 2 pages, 8vo, four stanzas, laid down . [ With :] BATES. Typed letter signed ("Katherine Lee Bates"), to Miss Moulton, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 1 March 1915. 1 page, 8vo, Welleseley stationery, laid down . Enclosing copy of the present manuscript. Also with pamphlets, photos and other ephemera related to Bates's life. "O BEAUTIFUL FOR SPACIOUS SKIES, FOR AMBER WAVES OF GRAIN" A fine copy of all four stanzas of "America the Beautiful," presented by Bates, as she explains in the accompanying 1915 letter to Moulton, in appreciation for Moulton's support of the International Institute for Girls in Spain, "in which I have been deeply interested..." Bates penned this classic patriotic hymn--more melodic and more poetic than the drinking tune to which the Star-spangled Banner was set--22 years previously, inspired by a visit to Pike's Peak. She was teaching English literature at nearby Colorado College. "One day," as she would later explain, "some of the other teachers and I decided to go on a trip to 14,000-foot Pikes Peak. We hired a prairie wagon. Near the top we had to leave the wagon and go the rest of the way on mules. I was very tired. But when I saw the view, I felt great joy. All the wonder of America seemed displayed there, with the sea-like expanse." It first appeared in a Congregationalist journal in 1895, but gained wider popularity when republished in the Boston Evening Transcript in 1904. This final, four-stanza version, was completed in 1912. (2)
BATES, Katherine Lee (1859-1929), poet, educator . Autograph manuscript signed ("Katherine Lee Bates"), [1915], "America the Beautiful." 2 pages, 8vo, four stanzas, laid down . [ With :] BATES. Typed letter signed ("Katherine Lee Bates"), to Miss Moulton, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 1 March 1915. 1 page, 8vo, Welleseley stationery, laid down . Enclosing copy of the present manuscript. Also with pamphlets, photos and other ephemera related to Bates's life.
BATES, Katherine Lee (1859-1929), poet, educator . Autograph manuscript signed ("Katherine Lee Bates"), [1915], "America the Beautiful." 2 pages, 8vo, four stanzas, laid down . [ With :] BATES. Typed letter signed ("Katherine Lee Bates"), to Miss Moulton, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 1 March 1915. 1 page, 8vo, Welleseley stationery, laid down . Enclosing copy of the present manuscript. Also with pamphlets, photos and other ephemera related to Bates's life. "O BEAUTIFUL FOR SPACIOUS SKIES, FOR AMBER WAVES OF GRAIN" A fine copy of all four stanzas of "America the Beautiful," presented by Bates, as she explains in the accompanying 1915 letter to Moulton, in appreciation for Moulton's support of the International Institute for Girls in Spain, "in which I have been deeply interested..." Bates penned this classic patriotic hymn--more melodic and more poetic than the drinking tune to which the Star-spangled Banner was set--22 years previously, inspired by a visit to Pike's Peak. She was teaching English literature at nearby Colorado College. "One day," as she would later explain, "some of the other teachers and I decided to go on a trip to 14,000-foot Pikes Peak. We hired a prairie wagon. Near the top we had to leave the wagon and go the rest of the way on mules. I was very tired. But when I saw the view, I felt great joy. All the wonder of America seemed displayed there, with the sea-like expanse." It first appeared in a Congregationalist journal in 1895, but gained wider popularity when republished in the Boston Evening Transcript in 1904. This final, four-stanza version, was completed in 1912. (2)
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