Original records created by Rare Books and Manuscripts, Special Collections, Temple University Libraries; 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, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.

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• Title: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts in the Rare Books and Manuscripts, Special Collections, Temple University Libraries, Temple University
• Collection Number: tem.ead01
• Creator: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
• Repository: Rare Books and Manuscripts, Special Collections

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• Abstract:

  This catalog was created from the original finding aid obtained by The Walt Whitman Archive. The original manuscripts and finding aid are held at Temple University.

• Scope and Content:

  Temple University's Rare Books and Manuscripts, Special Collections Department holds corrected and uncorrected proofs and two drafts of poetic lines in Whitman's hand.

• 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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