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Contains 31 Results:

MC49. Walt Whitman Collection, 1860-1971

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MC-49
Scope and Contents Advertising circular, envelopes, offprints, posters, handbills, literary criticism, lithographs, letters, framed pictures and portraits, printed announcement, and lecture program; program and menu for Whitman's seventieth birthday party (1889); proofs of labels and autographs; admission tickets for a Robert Ingersoll lecture (1890); and a facsimile of a Whitman letter. The material was collected by business executive and Whitman scholar, Charles E. Feinberg of Detroit, Michigan....
Dates: Created: 1860 - 1971; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1983

Engraving of Whitman

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: Folder 1
Scope and Contents

5" x 8"

Dates: Created: 1860 - 1971; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1983

"Ah, Not This Granite Dead and Cold", 1885-02

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: Folder 2
Scope and Contents

Final proof

Dates: Created: 1885-02

Notes on Walt Whitman, As Poet and Person

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: Folder 3
Scope and Contents

By John Burroughs, 2nd. Ed., 1871 proof signature

Dates: Created: 1860 - 1971; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1983

"Foreign Criticisms on an American Poet"

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: Folder 4
Scope and Contents

1 page about Whitman

Dates: Created: 1860 - 1971; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1983

Proof sheets from November Boughs, 1889

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: Folder 5
Scope and Contents

"What Lurks Behind Shakspere's Plays?" "Some War Memoranda" "Abraham Lincoln" "The Bible as Poetry"

Dates: Created: 1889

Presentation page from "Memoranda During the War", 1871

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: Folder 6
Scope and Contents

(Rememberance Copy with Personal Note)

Dates: Created: 1871

Engraving of Whitman

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Identifier: Folder 7
Scope and Contents

With facsimile signature and four line quote from Leaves of Grass

Dates: Created: 1860 - 1971; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1983

"My Book and I"

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: Folder 8
Scope and Contents

Proof signature from magazine article

Dates: Created: 1860 - 1971; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1983

"During the War"

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Identifier: Folder 9
Scope and Contents

Proof signature

Dates: Created: 1860 - 1971; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1983