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Additional authors

1. Brodsky, Louis Daniel
2. Bucke, Richard Maurice, 1837-1902

Description

1. 47 slips; approx. 4x8cm. - 11x19cm.

Alternative title

1. Walt Whitman \ a series of thirty suggestions for poems and lectures \ original manuscript
2. Series of thirty suggestions for poems and lectures
3. Walt Whitman \ "Like Earth o river, you offer us burial" \ earliest draft of a canto for Songs of myself \ original holograph manuscript \ 1855
4. Like Earth o river, you offer us burial
5. Walt Whitman \ suggestions for poems \ (soliloquies) \ Reflections \ Suffering \ Points and Proem \ Broad-axe \ Amativness and spirituality \ The law is grand \ A string of poems \ A remembrance \ Indian Summer \ Walks in the woods \ List of appendices (L. of G.) \ original manuscripts
6. Suggestions for poems (soliloquies)
7. Collection of 55 literary fragments.

Subject

1. Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Manuscripts
2. Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
3. Poetry, Modern -- 19th century
4. American poetry -- 19th century

Call number

1. Berg Coll+ Whitman, Walt Holograph literary fragments

Language

1. English

Note

1. A collection of 47 scraps of paper bearing approximately 55 different manuscript verses and notes by Walt Whitman, in pen and pencil. One slip also bears a newspaper clipping, with Whitman's notes on the side.
2. Tipped into 3 volumes bound (ca. 1920) by Sandorski & Sutcliffe in London, England, each volume bearing calligraphic title in red and black.
3. At least seventeen of the slips bear text on recto and verso ; of these, twelve have been removed and rehinged on the original bound leaves, the others are tipped in on at least two sides and remain illegible or partially legible.
4. Scraps collected by Richard Maurice Bucke, friend of the poet and author of "Walt Whitman" (published 1883).
5. Provenance: Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke ; Bliss Perry [?] ; bound by Sandorski & Sutlciffe in London, England ; W. T. H Howe [?] ; Louis D. Brodsky.

Access (note)

1. Restricted access ;

Author

1. Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.

Title

1. [Holograph literary fragments and notes for poems, on 47 paper slips, tipped into 3 volumes].

Imprint

1. [s.l., ca. 1855]

Access

1. Restricted access ; request permission in holding division.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. Request access to this item in the Berg Collection

Added author

1. Brodsky, Louis Daniel. Former owner
2. Bucke, Richard Maurice, 1837-1902. Former owner
3. Bucke, Richard Maurice, 1837-1902. Collection registrar

Other title

1. Series of thirty suggestions for poems and lectures

Other title

1. Like Earth o river, you offer us burial

Other title

1. Suggestions for poems (soliloquies)

Research call number

1. Berg Coll+ Whitman, Walt Holograph literary fragments