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Box 1

 Container

Contains 31 Results:

Facsimile of letter from Whitman to Dr. Johnston

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Identifier: Folder 14
Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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

Program and menu from Whitman's seventieth birthday, 1889-05-31

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Identifier: Folder 15
Scope and Contents

Morgan's Hall, Camden, NJ

Dates: Created: 1889-05-31

Advertisement page for Complete Poems and Prose, Leaves of Grass, and Portraits from Life

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Identifier: Folder 16
Scope and Contents

With Autobiographical Note on back

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

Robert Ingersoll lecture at Horticultural Hall, 1890-10-21

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Identifier: Folder 17
Scope and Contents

Playbill, 5.75" x 5.75" Ticket number 1374, 4" x 1.5" Ticket, 3.5" x 2.25"

Dates: Created: 1890-10-21

Envelopes used by Whitman when he was a member of the U.S. Christian Commission as a nurse in the Civil War

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Identifier: Folder 18
Scope and Contents

Return address: Walt Whitman, Camden, New Jersey Return address: U.S. Christian Commission, Office in Washington, D.C., 343 Pennsylvania Avenue

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

"You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me," and "After the Supper and Talk," proof sheets, 1888

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Identifier: Folder 19
Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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: 1888

Engraving of Whitman

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
Identifier: Folder 20
Scope and Contents

5.5" x 8"

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

49th Congress, House of Representatives, Report No. 3856 to accompany Bill H.R. 10707 for the relief of Walt Whitman

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Identifier: Folder 21
Scope and Contents From the Collection: 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

Tributes to William Carlyle and Thomas Jefferson Whitman:

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Identifier: Folder 22
Scope and Contents

"The Dead Carlyle," one column "An Engineer's Obituary" (from The Engineering Record NY, Dec. 13, 1890), for his brother, one column

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

Walt Whitman's Poetic Platform

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 23
Identifier: Folder 23
Scope and Contents

Proof sheet about Whitman's article, "The Poetry of the Future"

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