ID 813784 
Lot 119  | Fair copy of "Onward Christian Soldiers"
Estimate value
$ 1 500 – 2 500 
Sabine Baring-Gould, ca. 1912
BARING-GOULD, Sabine (1832-1924). Autograph manuscript signed ("S. Baring-Gould"), n.p., n.d.
One page, 323 x 198mm, 40 lines in 5 stanzas, titled at head, tipped to a bifolium sheet.
A fair copy of "Onward, Christian Soldiers." The verses of this famous hymn were written in 1864 for a children's festival and published in Church Times, London, 15 October 1864; it was later set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan.
[With:] BARING-GOULD, Sabine. Autograph note signed, North Devon, 6 October 1912. 1 page, 78 x 112mm, tipped to the same bifolium opposite the manuscript. Gould describes the circumstances under which the famous hymn was written, noting it "was written in a great hurry one Saturday, printed same day...practised on the Sunday and sung on the Monday."
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