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This catalog was created from information and images provided by the Rare & Special Books Collection
The Rare & Special Books Collection at the University at Buffalo contains two Whitman prose manuscripts
Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Rare & Special Books Collection, University Libraries
Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Rare & Special Books Collection, University Libraries
All reasonable steps have been taken to contact copyright holders of material used in this book.
The book has usually been ignored in Whitman criticism.
Why, yes, it is a revelation to me, also—a new book to me. . . .
such a book would have been!”
The characters’ words often echo that book of the NewTestament.
I have made, The words of my book nothing, the drift of it every thing, A book separate, not link’d
or lot of books.
The study of a book’s drift is a study of a book’s distribution but also a study of a book’s (and an
The book came—the books—and I was taxed for duties. Yes, three dollars and a half.
“I am selling quite a good many of my books now,” Whitman wrote to Harry Stafford in October 1880, “gives
Ed Folsom, Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman: A Catalog and Commentary, available on The Walt
Quoted in Folsom, Whitman Making Books. 70. Folsom, Whitman Making Books.
Folsom, Whitman Making Books. 72. Folsom, Whitman Making Books. 73.
Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman: A Catalog and Commentary.
Works Cited 237 Harris, W. C.