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Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Abbott Memorial Collection, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections and Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine

Original records created by the George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections and Archives, Bowdoin College Library; revised and expanded by the Walt Whitman Archive and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. Encoded Archival Description completed with the assistance of the National Endowment for the Humanities.




Individual items at this repository

  • Whitman Archive Title: Emerson's Books, (the shadows of them)
  • Whitman Archive ID: bow.00003
  • Series: Literary World records
  • Sub-series: The Emerson Tribute
  • Repository Title: Whitman's "Emerson's Books, (Shadows of Them)," [n.d.], AMS, 6p.
  • Date: 1880
  • Genre: prose
  • Physical Description: 6 leaves, handwritten
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  • Content: Manuscript prepared for the printer of an essay written for the Literary World (Boston) of May 22, 1880.

  • Whitman Archive Title: Emerson's Books, (the Shadows of Them.)
  • Whitman Archive ID: bow.00005
  • Series: Literary World records
  • Sub-series: The Emerson Tribute
  • Repository Title: Whitman's "Emerson's Books, (Shadows of Them)," [n.d.], galley proof with holograph corrections, [1]p.
  • Date: 1880
  • Genre: prose
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, printed; handwritten
  • View Images: 1
  • Content: Partial galley proof, with corrections and marginal note, of an essay first published in the May 22, 1880, issue of the Literary World (Boston). In 1882, a revised version was published under the same title in the "Notes Left Over" section of Specimen Days & Collect .

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