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Catalog of a Walt Whitman Literary Manuscript in Special Collections and University Archives, Robert L. Carothers Library, University of Rhode Island

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Text:

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts in the Joel A. Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Rare Books & Special Collections, Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina.

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Text:

Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Rare Books & Special Collections

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Rare Books & Special Collections, Thomas

Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Rare Books & Special Collections, Thomas

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts at the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Text:

The Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections

Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892—Manuscripts; Poets, American—19th century

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts at the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature

Original documents held in The Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, The Albert and

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Abbott Memorial Collection, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections and Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Text:

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Walt Whitman Collection, Rare Books and Manuscripts Department, Boston Public Library

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Text:

Included with the collection were 17 photographs and 20 manuscripts.

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the British Library

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Catalog of a Walt Whitman Literary Manuscript in the John Hay Papers, John Hay Library, Brown University

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, John Hay Library, Brown University

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Text:

The Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays is composed of approximately 250,000 volumes of American

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Rare & Special Books Collection, University Libraries, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscript in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Catalog of a Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscript in the The Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Text:

The bulk of Duke University's Walt Whitman holdings were acquired through a series of substantial donations

Whitman holdings that had belonged to Bucke, and many of the items listed in the catalogue of this sale were

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892—Manuscripts; Poets, American—19th century

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in Folger Shakespeare Library

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts in the Manuscripts Department, Houghton Library, Harvard University

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Huntington Public Library, Huntington, New York

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Iowa Historical Museum (Des Moines)

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Catalog of a Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscript in Special Collections, The Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Sheridan Libraries, The Johns Hopkins University

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Liverpool Central Library

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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.; Walt Whitman's papers were divided among his three literary executors, Richard M.

Whitman's personal habits were such that he wrote and collected his notes in a casual and unsystematic

1942, a group of Whitman notebooks from the Harned collection, along with other national treasures, were

material from storage in 1944, it was discovered that ten Whitman notebooks and a cardboard butterfly were

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century

seventh grade, but he continued to educate himself independently, and he developed a keen interest in American

Rossetti's American Poems, and he began constructing his vast Whitman collection at age seventeen with

Walt Whitman, a Brooklyn Boy

  • Date: 29 September 1855
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
Text:

indelibly fix it and publish it, not for a model but an illustration, for the present and future of American

letters and American young men, for the south the same as the north, and for the Pacific and Mississippi

Of pure American breed, of reckless health, his body perfect, free from taint from top to toe, free forever

cruise with fishers in a fishing smack—or with a band of laughers and roughs in the streets of the city

An English and an American Poet

  • Date: October 1855
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
Text:

AN ENGLISH AND AN AMERICAN POET.

Thus what very properly fits a subject of the British crown may fit very ill an American freeman.

Sure as the heavens envelope the earth, if the Americans want a race of bards worthy of 1855, and of

Poetry, to Tennyson and his British and American eleves, is a gentleman of the first degree, boating,

An English and an American Poet

All about a Mocking-Bird

  • Date: 7 January 1860
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
Text:

soon crop out the true "L EAVES OF G RASS ," the fuller- grown work of which the former two issues were

Quite after the same token as the Italian Opera, to most bold Americans, and all new persons, even of

Then, in view of the latter words, bold American!

You, bold American!

No, bold American!

Walt Whitman and His Poems

  • Date: September 1855
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
Text:

A N American bard at last!

The interior American republic shall also be declared free and independent.

But where in American literature is the first show of America?

Where is the vehement growth of our cities?

Walt Whitman was born on Long-Island, on the hills about thirty miles from the greatest American city

Review of Leaves of Grass Imprints

  • Date: 10 October 1860
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
Text:

and in England, a perfect specimen of choice typography,) came forth in Boston, the current year, 1860

Thus the book is a gospel of self-assertion and self-reliance for every American reader—which is the

Dichter der Zukunft

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
Text:

abkehrt, der es euch überläßt, zu beweisen und zu erklären, und der die Hauptsache von euch erwartet. (1860

Poètes à venir

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
Text:

visage, Vous laissant le soin de poser et de résoudre le problème, Attendant de vous l'essentiel. (1860

Nadchodzący poeci

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
Annotations Text:

Międzyrzecki's translation appears in an anthology of American poetry.

Poetas del porvenir

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
Text:

volver luego la cara y dejaros la prueba y la definición, esperando de vosotros lo más importante. 1860

Poetas del porvenir

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt
Text:

volver luego la cara y dejaros la prueba y la definición, esperando de vosotros lo más importante. 1860

Whitman among the Bohemians

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Levin, Joanna | Whitley, Edward
Text:

of the City of Brook- lyn for 1856, 1858–1859, and 1859–1860, and the Charter for the City of Brooklyn

[Henry Clapp Jr.], “Walt Whitman and American Art,” SP, June 30, 1860. 43.

“Walt Whitman and American Art,” SP, June 30, 1860. 3.

design decision equivalent to nakedness—in 1860 the poems were titled, and many were arranged into thematic

Kenny, Daniel J.The American Newspaper Directory and Record of the Press for 1860.

Whitelaw Reid to Walt Whitman, 18 November 1878

  • Date: November 18, 1878
  • Creator(s): Whitelaw Reid
Annotations Text:

Whitelaw Reid (1837–1912) was the editor of the New York Tribune from 1872 to 1905 and also American

The Genius of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 20 March 1880
  • Creator(s): White, W. Hale
Text:

of countless squads of vagabond children, the hideousness and squalor of certain quarters of the cities

Revenue department at Washington, who is led by the course of his employment to regularly visit the cities

The great cities reek with respectable as much as non-respectable robbery and scoundrelism.

He found the average American in the United States' armies, under pressure of want, disease, danger,

If a motto were to be chosen for "The Two Rivulets," and for Walt Whitman generally, it should be that

"walter dear": The Letters from Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Her Son Walt

  • Creator(s): Wesley Raabe
Text:

Period 1: 1860–1867 Between 1860 and 1867, Louisa's life was fractured by the death of her son Andrew

Thomas Jefferson Whitman, April 16, 1860 The Public Life of Captain John Brown (1860) had been issued

(Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000), 282.

March 31, 1860 April 4, 1860 When Jesse moved into the Portland Avenue home is not known—perhaps after

O'Connor were friends to Louisa as well as to Walt.

Werner Bruns to Walt Whitman, 1 October 1891

  • Date: October 1, 1891
  • Creator(s): Werner Bruns
Text:

NEW JERSEY OFFICE: 137 Ocean Ave., Jersey City. New York, Oct 1. 189 1 Hon. Walt.

Wentworth Dixon to Walt Whitman, 13 June 1891

  • Date: June 13, 1891
  • Creator(s): Wentworth Dixon
Annotations Text:

Fritzinger and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former

Wentworth Dixon to Walt Whitman, 24 February 1892

  • Date: February 24, 1892
  • Creator(s): Wentworth Dixon
Annotations Text:

Traubel (1858–1919) was an American essayist, poet, and magazine publisher.

Traubel left behind enough manuscripts for six more volumes of the series, the final two of which were

The couple were the parents of at least four children: Myra Dixon, Nora Dixon, Wentworth Dixon, and Ellen

Fritzinger and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former

Wellesley Sayle to Walt Whitman, 3 November 1888

  • Date: November 3, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Wellesley Sayle
Annotations Text:

I see in Bob the noblest specimen—American-flavored—pure out of the soil, spreading, giving, demanding

Imagination and Fact

  • Date: 1852 or later; January 1852; Unknown
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | ["W.D."] | Anonymous
Text:

The false and the phantasmal have ever been considered the necessary complements, as it were, of our

They heard gods in winds and in fire—and altars to these were among the earliest raised.

The forests were sacred to the universal Pan—his fauns, sylvans and satyrs; every oak had its hamadryad

The Swiss peasants were successful, and are held in honorable remembrance forever.

We have a thousand proofs that they were rude, bad, ignorant times.

Annotations Text:

Grass points out that this is a revised reprint of an article by the same title published by the American

Style and Technique(s)

  • Creator(s): Warren, James Perrin
Text:

first Leaves of Grass in 1855, Walt Whitman has been justly honored as the first great innovator in American

In the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, Whitman begins to show his concern for larger units of poetic

Always conscious of the printed format of the poems, Whitman numbers stanzas in the 1860 edition, and

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1994.Hollis, C. Carroll. Language and Style in "Leaves of Grass."

An American Primer. By Walt Whitman. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1904. v–ix.Warren, James Perrin.

Walter Whitman Storms to Walt Whitman, 9 March 1874

  • Date: March 9, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walter Whitman Storms
Text:

we spent about 2 Hours—saw a great many anamiles animals , a few birds, &c, &c., but the monkeys, were

Here we saw a fine structure—we were there awhile & then took the Hud. Hudson R. R R to 43 st.

Annotations Text:

referring to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is located in Central Park at 1000 5th Avenue, New York City

Walter Whitman Storms to Walt Whitman, 9 August 1875

  • Date: August 9, 1875
  • Creator(s): Walter Whitman Storms
Text:

Remember it is not amongst strangers but as it were your own folks.

Walter Whitman Storms to Walt Whitman, 12 January 1874

  • Date: January 12, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walter Whitman Storms
Text:

Then I saw in the paper, that you were out in Canada, taking your vacation, so I did not write again,

Annotations Text:

His brothers were Garret Storms (1861–1945), George Storms (1863–1888), and Richard Storms (1867–1939

Walter Whitman Storms and his siblings were the children of Herman Blauvelt Storms (1822–1898) and his

Walter Whitman Storms to Walt Whitman, 20 April 1875

  • Date: April 20, 1875
  • Creator(s): Walter Whitman Storms
Text:

has had very sore feet and legs, so bad that he could not have worked, even if he had had it. they were

Storms P.S. we got a letter from Uncle George last night—he had no work, and his limbs were not very

Annotations Text:

According to the Paterson, New Jersey City Directory (1876), Speer was a driver with a home at 48 Pearl

St. in the city.

Walter Whitman Reynolds to Walt Whitman, 13 May 1872

  • Date: May 13, 1872
  • Creator(s): Walter Whitman Reynolds
Text:

Caloo New York City One of numerous letters from Walter Reynolds asking money & honeyfugle generally

Walter Whitman Reynolds to Walt Whitman, 26 April 1870

  • Date: April 26, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walter Whitman Reynolds
Annotations Text:

According to the 1860 U. S.

Daniel Robbins started working as an apprentice for John McKesson and Charles Olcott, who were in wholesale

Walter Whitman Reynolds to Walt Whitman, 9 February 1870

  • Date: February 9, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walter Whitman Reynolds
Text:

ld like to see you very much it has been a long while since I wh think Visit to Washington when you were

Walter M. Rew to Walt Whitman, [1890–1892]

  • Date: 1890–1892; Unknown
  • Creator(s): Walter M. Rew | Unknown author
Text:

with our greatest in England this century & your good nature must by any sort of reply even if such were

The Cynic—an American statesman of the future who put a great fool on "Confections and persiflage." (

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