Research Catalog
Walt Whitman correspondence, documents, and photograph
- Title
- Walt Whitman correspondence, documents, and photograph, 1867-1888.
- Author
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
- Supplementary Content
- Collection guide
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Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | folder 1 | Mixed material | Request in advance | MssCol 4676 folder 1 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
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- Description
- .1 linear foot (1 folder).
- Summary
- The collection consists of autograph correspondence and documents written by American poet and author Walt Whitman, 1867-1888 and undated, and a mounted photograph portrait by George C. Cox, signed and dated by Whitman, 1887 September. Correspondence consists of two autograph letters or notes to the New York Daily Tribune, concerning his subscription, 1880, and enclosing a letter for the Summer Leisure column (not present), 1881; two undated notes likely addressed to the Tribune, requesting papers and publications, and an undated autograph postcard to John Burroughs regarding his health. Also present are an autograph invoice to French & Richardson for copies of Leaves of Grass, 1867 August 13; a printed page sent as a correct sample of "O Captain! My Captain!," with Whitman's signed autograph suggestion to the printer, stamped Riverside Press, 1888 Feb 11; and identifying notes on cardboard "for Sequella for future edition of Specimen Days...," undated.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Access (note)
- Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
- Source (note)
- Donated by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1899, as part of the Ford Collection, and other donations, 1925 and 1950.
- Call Number
- MssCol 4676
- OCLC
- 986536859
- Author
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, creator.
- Title
- Walt Whitman correspondence, documents, and photograph, 1867-1888.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- sheet
- Restricted Access
- Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
- Source
- Donated by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1899, as part of the Ford Collection, and other donations, 1925 and 1950.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Authors.Poets.
- Added Author
- Cox, George C. (George Collins), 1851-1902, photographer.Ford Collection.
- Research Call Number
- MssCol 4676