Title: Richard Burbage
Creator: Walt Whitman
Date: Undated
Whitman Archive ID: duk.00106
Source: Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Transcribed from digital images of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the marginalia and annotations, see our statement of editorial policy.
Editorial note: Grier notes that "the writing seems to be WW's handwriting of the 1850s" (Walt Whitman: Notebooks and Unpublished Manuscripts, ed. Edward F. Grier [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 5:1750.) Item is pasted down, making the verso unavailable.
Contributors to digital file: Lauren Grewe, Nicole Gray, Ty Alyea, and Matt Cohen
Richard Burbage, principal owner in theatre, & principal actor of first parts, must have been quite a character —he was quite rich— died in 1619—(worth £300 a year)