Original records created by Special Collections, The Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University; revised and expanded by the Walt Whitman Archive and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. Encoded Archival Description completed with the assistance of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the University of Nebraska Research Council, the Institute for Museum and Library Services, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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• Title: Catalog of a Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscript in Special Collections, The Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Sheridan Libraries, The Johns Hopkins University
• Collection Number: jhu.ead01
• Creator: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
• Repository: Milton S. Eisenhower Library

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• Abstract:

  This electronic catalog was created from the original catalog records obtained by The Walt Whitman Archive. The original papers and catalog records are held at The Johns Hopkins University.

• Scope and Content:

  The Johns Hopkins University holds one Whitman poetry manuscript (a handwritten version of O Captain! My Captain!) and a postcard to Sidney Lanier (the postcard is held in the Sidney Lanier Papers, MS.7). For this catalog, only the poetry manuscript has been described at the item level.

• 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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