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More Books

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  • Title: More Books
  • Date: After 1884
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.03403
  • Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 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: Whitman moved to the Mickle Street address listed on the verso of this page on March 26, 1884, so these notes were almost certainly written after that date.
  • Contributors to digital file: Lauren Grewe Ty Alyea Nicole Gray Matt Cohen Ashlyn Stewart
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "More Books." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 24 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.03403.xml (TEI)

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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] Others on the main table more books, a few of them evidently, books, several of them 'old-timers'— a Bible, a several Shaksperes; Tennyson, Ossian, Burns—a work devoted to H translations of Homer, and the Pindar, and the Greek tragedies, ^and Felton's Greeks and Symonds' books on Greece—a full collection of books the works, Fauriel, Ellis, and others on medieval ballads—a well-thumb'd volume ^(his companion—off and on for fifty years) of Walter Scotts' Border Minstrelsy—Tennyson, Ossian, Burns, form part or have formed parts of his familiar reading [begin surface 2] Whitman 328 Mickle St Camden
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