BARING-GOULD, SABINE. Autograph manuscript signed ("S. Baring-Gould") of the hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers," a fair copy, n.d. [published 1864]. 1 page, folio, 40 lines in 5 stanzas, titled at the head. The words of this famous hymn were written in 1864 for a Children's Festival and published in Church Times, London, 15 October 1864. It was set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan and published in this form in The Musical Times in December 1871. See Fuld, The Book of World-Famous Music, 3rd. edn., pp. 416-417.

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BARING-GOULD, SABINE. Autograph manuscript signed ("S. Baring-Gould") of the hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers," a fair copy, n.d. [published 1864]. 1 page, folio, 40 lines in 5 stanzas, titled at the head. The words of this famous hymn were written in 1864 for a Children's Festival and published in Church Times, London, 15 October 1864. It was set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan and published in this form in The Musical Times in December 1871. See Fuld, The Book of World-Famous Music, 3rd. edn., pp. 416-417.