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Richard Burbage

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  • Title: Richard Burbage
  • Date: Undated
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: duk.00106
  • Source: Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Transcribed from digital images of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: Grier notes that "the writing seems to be WW's handwriting of the 1850s" (Walt Whitman: Notebooks and Unpublished Manuscripts, ed. Edward F. Grier [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 5:1750.) Item is pasted down, making the verso unavailable.
  • Contributors to digital file: Lauren Grewe Nicole Gray Ty Alyea Matt Cohen Ashlyn Stewart
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Richard Burbage." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 23 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: duk.00106.xml (TEI)

Key

Textual Feature Appearance
Whitman's hand blue double overline and underline
Highlighting yellow background with top and bottom border
Paste-on gray box with black borders
Laid in white box with black borders
Erasure white text with dark gray background
Overwritten brown with strikethrough
[begin surface 1] Richard Burbage, principal owner in theatre, & principal actor of first parts, must have been quite a character —he was quite rich— died in 1619—(worth £300 a year)
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