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.

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• Title: 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
• Collection Number: bow.ead01
• Creator: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
• Repository: George J. Mitchell Dept. of Special Collections and Archives

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• Abstract:

  This catalog was created from catalogue records created by George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections and Archives, Bowdoin College Library, and obtained by the Walt Whitman Archive. The original papers and catalogue records are held at George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections and Archives, Bowdoin College Library.

• Scope and Content:

  Abbott Memorial Collection, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections and Archives, Bowdoin College Library, holds a prose manuscript, a galley proof, and two pieces of correspondence written by Walt Whitman. The individual items described in this catalog are only those deemed prose manuscripts.

• Biographical Information:

  For additional biographical information, see "Walt Whitman", by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price, and the chronology of Whitman's Life.

• Subjects:
  • Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
  • Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts
  • Poets, American--19th century

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