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

Title: [Holograph literary fragments and notes for poems, on 47 paper slips, tipped into 3 volumes].
Author: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Publication: [s.l., ca. 1855]

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Description

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

Alternative Title

Walt Whitman \ a series of thirty suggestions for poems and lectures \ original manuscript
Series of thirty suggestions for poems and lectures
Walt Whitman \ "Like Earth o river, you offer us burial" \ earliest draft of a canto for Songs of myself \ original holograph manuscript \ 1855
Like Earth o river, you offer us burial
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
Suggestions for poems (soliloquies)
Collection of 55 literary fragments.

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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.
Tipped into 3 volumes bound (ca. 1920) by Sandorski & Sutcliffe in London, England, each volume bearing calligraphic title in red and black.
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.
Scraps collected by Richard Maurice Bucke, friend of the poet and author of "Walt Whitman" (published 1883).
Provenance: Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke ; Bliss Perry [?] ; bound by Sandorski & Sutlciffe in London, England ; W. T. H Howe [?] ; Louis D. Brodsky.

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Call Number

Berg Coll+ Whitman, Walt Holograph literary fragments

OCLC

851581980

Author

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.

Title

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

Imprint

[s.l., ca. 1855]

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Brodsky, Louis Daniel. Former owner

Bucke, Richard Maurice, 1837-1902. Former owner

Bucke, Richard Maurice, 1837-1902. Collection registrar

Other Title

Series of thirty suggestions for poems and lectures

Other Title

Like Earth o river, you offer us burial

Other Title

Suggestions for poems (soliloquies)

Research Call Number

Berg Coll+ Whitman, Walt Holograph literary fragments