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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
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Books of WW

Copies, evidently often read, of the Bible, Homer and Shakspere. Then among others, Felton's Greece, Scott's a big volume with all Walter Scotts Poetry, ^Ellis's old metrical abstracts Hedge's Prose writers and Poets of Germany, Voltaires Dictionary, ^George Sands' books Volney, Virgil, Tennyson, eleven big vols. American ^Library Literature, Emerson, the Dictionaries, R G Ingersoll, Ossian, George Sands' books, Ellis[illegible] old metrical abstracts, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius Ticknor's Spanish Literature tran- lations of all "the classics" and of Dante, Hafiz Saadi, Omar Khayyam, &c. &c: [begin surface 2] Walt Whitman Camden New Jersey. will return ^n.p. clipping very soon.
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