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The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection Of The Papers of
Walt Whitman
A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress
Prepared by Michael McElderry
Revised and expanded by Michael McElderry
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
1996
Contact information: http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mss/address.html
Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress
Manuscript Division, 2002
Collection Summary
Title: Thomas Biggs Harned collection of the papers
of Walt Whitman
Span Dates: 1842-1937 (bulk 1855-1892)
ID No.: MSS45443
Collector: Harned, Thomas Biggs, b.1851, collector
Creator: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Size: 3,000 items; 8 containers; 4 linear feet; 7
microfilm reels
Repository: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress,Washington,
D.C.
Abstract: Lawyer. Correspondence, manuscripts of poetry
and prose, notes and notebooks, proofs and offprints,
printed material, and other papers received by Harned
as one of Walt Whitman's three literary executors. The
collection contains material relating to many aspects
of Whitman's career, especially the publication of and
subsequent controversy surrounding "Leaves of Grass"
and his commitment to the ideals embodied in the life
and death of Abraham Lincoln.
Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description
of this collection in the Library's online catalog.
They are grouped by name of person or organization,
by subject or location, and by occupation and listed
alphabetically therein.
Names:
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Gilchrist, Anne Burrows, 1828-1885--Correspondence
Harned, Thomas Biggs, b. 1851--Correspondence
Kennedy, William Sloane, 1850-1929--Correspondence
Osgood, James R. (James Ripley), 1836-1892--Correspondence
Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William), 1857-1920--Correspondence
Scovel, James M. (James Matlack), 1833-1904--Correspondence
Stoddart, J. M. (Joseph Marshall), 1845-1921--Correspondence
Ticknor, Benjamin Holt, 1842-1919--Correspondence
Harned, Thomas Biggs, b. 1851, collector
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Thomas Biggs Harned collection
of the papers of Walt Whitman (1842-1937)
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of grass (1855)
Subjects:
American poetry
Administrative Information
Provenance: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the
Papers of Walt Whitman was given to the Library of Congress
by Harned, 1917-1918, and supplemented by gift and purchase
from his son, Herbert S. Harned, 1955-1956. Herbert
S. Harned also gave part of his father's original collection
to Bryn Mawr College in 1950.
Processing History: A description of the collection
is included in Walt Whitman: A Catalog Based Upon the
Collections of the Library of Congress (Washington:
Library of Congress, 1955). The collection was laminated
and reorganized in 1956 to correspond to the arrangement
in this catalog. This register, prepared in 1981, was
revised in 1996.
Transfers: Items have been transferred from the Manuscript
Division to other custodial divisions of the Library.
Printed volumes from the Harned collection have been
transferred to the Rare Book and Special Collections
Division. A small number of prints and photographs have
been transferred to the Prints and Photographs Division.
All tranfers are identified in these divisions as part
of the Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers
of Walt Whitman.
Copyright Status: The status of copyright in the unpublished
writings of Walt Whitman is governed by the Copyright
Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
Microfilm: A microfilm edition of these papers on six
reels is available from the Library's Photoduplication
Service for purchase subject to the copyright law of
the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.). This microfilm
edition may also be requested on interlibrary loan through
the Library's Loan Division.
Electronic Format: In 1942 the Harned Collection was
evacuated from Washington, D.C., for security reasons.
Upon the return of the collection to the Library of
Congress in 1944, it was discovered that ten notebooks
and a cardboard butterfly were missing. Photocopies
of selected portions from these missing items that had
been made prior to their disappearance are included
in the present arrangement in place of the missing manuscripts.
In 1995, four of the notebooks and the cardboard butterfly
were recovered, leaving six notebooks unaccounted for.
Digital images of these documents are accessible on
the Internet at the Library's World Wide Web site at
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wwhtml/.
Preferred Citation: Researchers wishing to cite this
collection should include the following information:
Container number, Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of
the Papers of Walt Whitman, Manuscript Division, Library
of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Biographical Note
Whitman, Walt
1819, May 31
Born, West Hills, Long Island, N.Y.
1830-1846
Various jobs as office boy, printer's devil, schoolteacher,
typesetter, and journalist
1839-1840
Writer and typesetter, Long Island Democrat
1841-1848
Associated with over ten newspapers and magazines, including
the Aurora (New York) and the Evening Tattler (New York)
1846-1848
Editor, Brooklyn Eagle
1848
Writer, New Orleans Crescent
Editor, Brooklyn Freeman
1855
Published Leaves of Grass (Brooklyn, N.Y.: [Printed
by Rome Brothers, Brooklyn, New York]. 95 pp.); enlarged
and revised in succeeding editions of 1856, 1860-1861,
1867, 1871, 1876, 1881-1882, 1888-1889, and 1891-1892
1857-1859
Editor, Brooklyn Times
1862-1864
Hospital nurse, Washington, D.C.
1865
Published Drum Taps (New York: [Printed by Peter Eckler,
New York]. 72 pp.)
Clerk, Interior Department
1865-1873
Clerk, Office of the Attorney General, Justice Department
1871
Published Democratic Vistas (Washington, D.C.: [Printed
by J. S. Redfield, New York]. 84 pp.)
Published Passage to India (Washington, D.C.: [Printed
by J. S. Redfield, New York]. 120 pp.)
Published After All, Not to Create Only (Boston: Roberts
Brothers. 24 pp.)
1872
Published As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free (Washington,
D.C.: [Printed by S. W. Green, New York]. 14 pp.)
1873
Suffered paralytic stroke
1875-1876
Published Memoranda during the War (Camden, N.J.: Author's
edition. 68 pp.)
1876
Published Two Rivulets (Camden, N.J.: Author's edition.
32 pp.)
1882-1883
Published Specimen Days and Collect (Philadelphia: David
McKay. 376 pp.)
1888
Published November Boughs (Philadelphia: David McKay.
140 pp.)
1891
Published Good-Bye My Fancy (Philadelphia: David McKay.
66 pp.)
1892, Mar. 26
Died, Camden, N.J.
Scope and Content Note
The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of
Walt Whitman spans the period 1842-1937, with most of
the items dated from 1855 to 1892. The collection consists
of Whitman's correspondence, poetry and prose manuscripts,
notes and notebooks, proofs and offprints, printed matter,
and miscellaneous supplementary items. A detailed description
of the Harned Collection has been published in the Library
of Congress publication Walt Whitman: a Catalog (1955),
which contains an introductory essay on significant
Whitman collectors and their collections and an annotated
bibliographic listing of Whitman items then located
among the collections of various divisions within the
Library. This catalog should be used in conjunction
with the present register.
The Container List in this register reflects the arrangement
of the collection as outlined in the catalog, but because
the material was once mounted in bound volumes, the
item arrangement described in this list does not correspond
identically to that in the catalog. In order to coordinate
the two guides, the sequence of the series in the register
is set up to mirror as closely as possible the arrangement
in the catalog. Cross references are employed wherever
necessary to pull together items separated physically
by series placement, as in the series Lincoln Material
and Whitman Broadsides. Identification numbers from
the catalog are used in the register and placed within
parentheses next to their corresponding items.
Walt Whitman's papers were divided among his three literary
executors, Richard M. Bucke, Thomas Biggs Harned, and
Horace L. Traubel. Of these, only Harned's collection
remains largely intact, the integrity of the other collections
having been lost through dispersal. Whitman's personal
habits were such that he wrote and collected his notes
in a casual and unsystematic manner, entrusting his
thoughts to scraps of paper, be it the back of a used
envelope or the verso of a letter. His notebooks contain
an equal number of random jottings, some no more than
bits and pieces of paper sewn together to form a small
notebook. These notes and notebooks include names and
addresses, trial titles, trial lines of poetry and prose
pieces, diary and hospital notes, pencil sketches and
drawings, drafts of poems and essays, autobiographical
and personal notes, printing and publishing notes, and
miscellaneous notes on a wide range of subjects such
as history, geography, politics, and ethnology.
Poems and prose writings in the Manuscripts series vary
in form from tentative outlines to final drafts. This
material often shows the extensive revision characteristic
of Whitman's composition. Related notes and notebook
entries add details helpful for textual analysis of
the poems. Whitman's practice of drafting letters, notes,
and literary works on the back of incoming letters necessitates
the identification of verso items in order to provide
full documentation. References to verso entries are
noted in the published catalog and reflected through
cross-reference citations in the register.
James R. Osgood printed the Boston edition of Leaves
of Grass (1881-1882), which was withdrawn from publication
after being censored by local authorities. Correspondence
between Osgood and Whitman about this edition is contained
in the collection, as are letters exchanged with T.
W. Rolleston concerning German and Russian translations.
Other correspondents include Anne Burrows Gilchrist,
Thomas Biggs Harned, William Sloane Kennedy, James M.
Scovel, J. M. Stoddart, and Benjamin Holt Ticknor.
Whitman had been greatly moved by Abraham Lincoln, who
symbolized for him the best in the American national
character and who inspired some of his greatest poetry.
He lectured extensively on Lincoln, and in a series
of lectures given between 1879 and 1890, he recalled
details of Lincoln's life and death and sketched an
intimate profile based on personal reminiscence. The
Lincoln Material series contains a thematic grouping
of various types of manuscripts and printed matter concerning
these lectures and related topics.
The Proofs and Offprints series includes copies of Whitman's
prose and poetry. Whitman often revised his writings
after having them set in type, and several of the proofs
in this series contain either corrections of the text
or notations for the printer.
In 1942, a group of Whitman notebooks from the Harned
collection, along with other national treasures, were
evacuated from Washington, D.C., for safekeeping during
World War II. Upon the return of the material from storage
in 1944, it was discovered that ten Whitman notebooks
and a cardboard butterfly were missing. In 1995, the
Library regained custody of four of these notebooks
and the butterfly, but six notebooks remain unaccounted
for.
The recovered items relate to Whitman's early career
as a journalist and poet and include notes on perception
and the senses, names and addresses, diary notes, drafts
of Civil War poems, and observations made in Washington,
D.C., during the Civil War. Whitman also used the notebooks
to record the public's reaction to and acceptance of
his poetry. The earliest notebook in the collection,
written between 1847 and 1854, was among the four recovered
and contains drafts of one of Whitman's most famous
poems, "Song of Myself." Other notebooks contain notes
Whitman made while working as a nurse in Civil War hospitals
in Washington, 1862-1864. The cardboard butterfly is
thought to be the same Whitman wired on his finger in
a photograph that was published as the frontispiece
for the 1889 birthday edition of Leaves of Grass.
Although photocopies of parts of the recovered items
remain in the collection, cross references refer only
to the original documents. Digital images of these documents
are accessible on the Internet at the Library's World
Wide Web site.
Organization of the Papers
The collection is arranged in eleven series:
Manuscripts, [1859]-[ca. 1892], n.d.
Notes and Memoranda, [1856?]-[Before 1888?], n.d.
Notebooks, [1847]-[1885?], n.d.
Correspondence, 1866-1891, n.d.
Miscellany, 1855-1905, n.d.
Proofs and Offprints, 1864-1891, n.d.
Lincoln Material, [Before 1865?]-[1891], n.d.
"Whitman Broadsides," 1855-1889
Photocopies, [1847]-[1876], n.d.
Supplementary Papers, 1842-1937, n.d.
Recovered Cardboard Butterfly and Notebooks, [1847]-[ca.
1863-1864], n.d.
Container List
Box 1
Reel 1
Manuscripts, [1859]-[ca. 1892], n.d.
(Catalog item nos. 22-63).
Holograph drafts, notes and trial lines of essays, poems,
and prose writings.
Organized by type of material and arranged chronologically
therein.
Box 1
Reel 1
Poetry
[1859], "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" (22)
[1865], "A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road
Unknown" (23)
[1869?], "The Crusades" See Container 6, Lincoln Material,
item no. 24
[ca. 1874], "Prayer of Columbus" (25)
[1876], "Eidólons" See same container, verso item no.
22 (26)
[1881]
"As Consequent, etc."
(27)
"A Clear Midnight"
(28)
"Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling"
(29)
[ca. 1885], "Fancies at Navesink" (30)
[ca. 1887], "You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me" (31)
[1888?], "Glad the Jaunts for the Known" and "Today
at the Peak" (32-33)
[1890], "A Song for Sweet Water" (34)
[1890?], "For Us Two, Reader Dear" (35)
[1891]
"Grand Is the Seen"
(36)
"L. of G.'s Purport"
(37)
"Old Chants" See Container 6, Lincoln Material, item
no. 38
[ca. 1892], "Supplement Hours" (39)
Undated
"America! Thee Formulating"
(40)
"Drift Sands"
(41)
"Gossip at Dusk"
(42)
"Maize-Tassels"
(43)
"The Strong Right Hand"
(44)
Untitled and unidentified
(45)
Prose
[Before 1860?], "A Simpler System of the Table" (46)
[Before 1862?], "Spectacle Inside the Opera House"
(47)
[1865?], "An Indian Bureau Reminiscence" (48)
1876, "Memoranda (Old and New) of Camden" (49)
1878, "Only Mulleins and Bumble-Bees" (50)
[1881], essay on the assassination of James A. Garfield
(51)
[1882], "A Memorandum at a Venture" (52)
1883, "Notes and Memories" (53)
[1885?], "The Tide Perceptibly Turns" (54)
[1887], "Five Thousand Poems" (55)
[1888]
"The Old Bowery"
(56)
"Abraham Lincoln"
(57)
[Before 1890?], on the nature of poetry (58)
Undated
On Ralph Waldo Emerson
(59)
"The Era of Queen Mary"
(60)
"To Women"
(61)
"Vestibules"
(62)
Untitled and unidentified
(63)
Box 1-2
Reel 1-2
Notes and Memoranda, [1856?]-[Before 1888?], n.d.
(Catalog item nos. 64-79).
Holograph fragments, notes and fragments, partial manuscripts
of essays, autobiographical pieces, lectures, and other
prose writings.
Arranged chronologically.
Box 1
Reel 1
[1856?], on slavery (64)
[Before 1865?], on the composition of the Union Army
See Container 6, Lincoln Material, item no. 65
[1865 or before], war and hospital notes and memoranda
(66)
[1874], Whitman on his illness (67)
[1874], "Payments to Dr. and Mrs. White" See Container
6, Lincoln Material, item no. 68; and Container 1, verso
item no. 37
[1881], Boston visit (69)
[Before 1882], "The Tramp and Strike Questions" (70)
[ca. 1882?], "Robert Burns as Poet and Person" (71)
[ca. 1885], "Walt Whitman in Camden" (72)
Undated, on the American idiom (73)
Box 2
Reel 1-2
[Before 1888?], on religion (74)
Undated
On Russia (75)
On the western United States (76)
Autobiography of Heinrich Zschokke (77)
Trial titles (78)
Miscellaneous notes or reminders (79)
Box 2-3
Reel 1-2
Notebooks, [1847]-[1885?], n.d.
(Catalog item nos. 80-120a).
Notebooks containing diary entries, drafts, literary
notes, names and addresses, sketches and drawings, and
trial titles.
Arranged chronologically. Selected copies of portions
of six missing notebooks, made prior to their disappearance,
are located in the Photocopies and the Supplementary
Papers series.
Box 2
Reel 1-2
[1847] See Container 8, item no. 80
[1849?], "Physique" (81)
[1852?] (82)
[ca. 1854-1855] (83)
[Before 1855] See Containers 6 and 7, Photocopies, item
no. 84
[Before 1855] (85)
[Before 1855] See Container 8, item no. 86
[Before 1855] See Container 6, Photocopies, item no.
87
[1857?], "Oratory" See Container 6, Photocopies, item
no. 88
[1859] See Container 6, Photocopies, item no. 89
[1860], Boston notebook (90)
[1860-1861] (91)
[1860-1864], Brooklyn and Washington notebook (92)
[1861-1862], New York City notebook (93)
[1862-1863] See Container 8, item no. 94
[1862?]
New York City notebook (95)
Notebooks (96-97)
(2 folders)
[1863]
Diary (98)
Washington hospital notebooks (99-100)
(2 folders)
Box 3
Reel 2
[ca. 1863-1864], Washington hospital notebook See Container
8, item no. 101
[1864]
Brooklyn hospital notebook (102)
Washington and Brooklyn hospital notebooks (103-104)
(2 folders)
[1865]
Hospital notebook See Container 6, Photocopies, item
no. 105
Notebook pages (106)
[Between 1865 and 1874?], "Lucretius" (107)
[1866-1877], address books (108-109)
(2 folders)
[1868-1870] See Container 6, Lincoln Material, item
no. 110
[1876], reading book See Container 6, Photocopies, item
no. 111
[1879] (112)
[ca. 1880], Camden (?) notebook (113)
[1885?], Camden (?) notebook (114)
Undated
"The Amadis of Gaul" (115)
Notebook pages (116-117)
(2 folders)
On English history of the sixteenth century (118)
Notebook pages (119-120)
(2 folders)
"Abraham" notebook (120a)
Box 3-4
Reel 2-3
Correspondence, 1866-1891, n.d.
(Catalog item nos. 121-192a).
Letters to and from Whitman, drafts of outgoing letters,
and postcards.
Arranged sequentially by catalog item number.
Box 3
Reel 2
Letters from Whitman to Robert U. Johnson, 4 Aug. 1884
(121)
Letters to Whitman
20 Feb. 1866-18 July 1886 (122)
8 Apr. 1867-11 Aug. 1884, n.d. See Container 1, verso
item no. 72 (123)
21 Jan. 1869-4 June 1890 See Container 1, verso item
nos. 24, 27, 32-33, 35, and 67 (124)
22 July 1875-12 Feb. 1887, n.d. See Containers 1 and
2, verso item nos. 36, 37, 41, 52, 55, 57, 63, 66, 71,
and 74 (125)
7 Oct. 1878-25 Feb. 1891, n.d. See Container 2, verso
item no. 78 (126)
29 Dec. 1880-7 Mar. 1884, n.d. See Container 1, verso
item no. 73 (127)
16 May 1881 and 16 Aug 1884, n.d. See Containers 3 and
4, verso item nos. 139, 145, and 190 (128)
30 Aug. and 4 Nov. 1881 See Container 1, verso item
no. 69 (129)
11 May 1882-28 July 1890, n.d. See Container 2, verso
item no. 79 (130)
[Before 1885] See Container 1, verso item no. 30 (131)
Letters to and from Whitman
Gilchrist, Anne Burrows, Sept. 1871-July 1885 (132-135)
Gilchrist, Beatrice and Herbert H., Aug. [?] 1878-Apr.
1883 (136)
Osgood, James R. and others, May 1881-May 1882 (137-187)
(2 folders)
Box 4
Reel 3
Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William), Nov. 1880-Sept. 1884
(188-192a)
Box 4-5
Reel 3-4
Miscellany, 1855-1905, n.d.
(Catalog item nos. 202-221).
Letters of correspondents other than Whitman, newspaper
and magazine clippings, printed matter, and miscellaneous
items.
Arranged sequentially by catalog item number.
Box 4
Reel 3
Printed copy of letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson, 21
July 1855 See Container 6, Whitman Broadsides, item
no. 202
Reprints of three articles on Whitman and his poetry:
a review of Leaves of Grass, Putnam's Monthly, Sept.
1855; "Walt Whitman and His Poems," United States Review,
Sept. 1855; and, "An English and an American Poet,"
American Phrenological Journal, Oct. 1855 See Container
6, Whitman Broadsides, item no. 203
Armory Square Hospital Gazette, 6 Jan.-17 Feb. 1864
(204)
Newspaper clippings on the Civil War, 1863-1888, n.d.
(205)
Receipts, 1870-1871, 1885 (206)
Advertisement copies for Leaves of Grass, Passage to
India, and Democratic Vistas, [1871?] See Container
6, Lincoln Material, item no. 207
Memoranda during the War, [1875]
Portions of three copies of the book (208)
Six copies of the first printed page (209)
"To Walt Whitman," a poem by Guillermo Dulce, 6 Apr.
1876 See Container 6, Lincoln Material, item no. 210
Envelope addressed by Whitman to John Hay, 10 Mar. 1887
(211)
Title page for the 1889 edition of Leaves of Grass,
ca. 1889 (212)
Check for fifty dollars from Whitman to Oldach & Co.,
3 Oct. 1889 See Container 6, Whitman Broadsides, item
no. 213
Correspondents other than Whitman, 1896-1905 (214)
Bucke, Richard M., Calamus, press comments, 1897 (215)
Lists of names, 1886, n.d. (216)
Calling cards, 1873, 1881, n.d. (217)
Newspaper and magazine clippings by or about Whitman,
1860-1892 (218)
(3 folders)
Newspaper clippings collected by Whitman, 1848-1891
(219)
(1 folder)
Box 5
Reel 3-4
(1 folder)
Cardboard butterfly, n.d. See Container 8, item no.
220
Miscellaneous items, including advertisements, leaflets,
maps, time tables, travel folders, portraits, and envelopes,
1876-83, 1895-99, n.d. (221)
Box 5-6
Reel 3-4
Proofs and Offprints, 1864-1891, n.d.
(Catalog item nos. 292-317).
Proofs and offprints of Whitman's poems, prose, and
speeches, as well as articles about Whitman and poems
by poets other than Whitman.
Arranged sequentially by catalog item number.
Box 5
Reel 3-4
"The Battle of Naseby," by William Collins, n.d. (292)
"The Bridge of Sighs," by William Collins, n.d. (293)
Introduction to Robert Ingersoll's lecture "Liberty
and Literature," 1890 (294)
"Death of Abraham Lincoln," [ca. 1879] See Container
6, Lincoln Material, item no. 295
"The Eighteenth Presidency!" n.d. (296)
"Fifty-First New York City Veterans," 1864 (298)
"A French Opinion of Walt Whitman," n.d. (299)
Good-bye My Fancy, ca. 1891 (300)
(2 folders)
Box 6
Reel 4
"John Anderson My Jo," by Robert Burns, n.d. (301)
"The Midnight Visitor" and "John Anderson My Jo," n.d.
(303) See Container 2, verso item no. 74
"Walt Whitman: Poet and Philosopher and Man," by Horace
L. Traubel, n.d. (307)
"The Passions," by William Collins, n.d. (308)
"To the Year 1889," ca. 1889 (310)
"Visits among Army Hospitals," n.d. (311)
"What Lurks behind Shakespeare's Historical Plays,"
1884 (313)
"A Word out of the Sea," n.d. (314)
Unidentified, n.d. (316a)
Portion of the proof of an article on Whitman, n.d.
(317)
"By Emerson's Grave," 1882 (317a)
"Father Taylor (and Oratory)," n.d. (317b)
"Sounds of the Winter," 1891 (317c)
"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," German translation
by Karl Knortz, n.d. (317d)
"On, on the same, ye Jocund Twain!" n.d. (317e)
"My 71st Year," ca. 1890 See same container, Lincoln
Material, item no. 317f
"Walt Whitman Last Night," 1880 See same container,
Lincoln Material, item no. 317g renumbered as 295e
Box 6
Reel 4
Lincoln Material, [Before 1865?]-[1891], n.d.
(Catalog item nos. 24, 38, 65, 68, 110, 193-201, 207,
210, 295, 317f-g).
Poetry and prose manuscripts, notes and drafts of writings
and lectures, printed matter, letters to Whitman from
A. J. Bloor, and proofs concerned with events surrounding
the life and death of Abraham Lincoln.
Disbound and arranged sequentially by catalog item number.
Box 6
Reel 4
Poetry manuscripts
[1869?], "The Crusades" (24)
[1891], "Old Chants" (38)
Notes and memoranda
[Before 1865?], on the composition of the Union Army
(65)
[1874], "Payments to Dr. and Mrs. White," (68)
Notebook, [1868-1870] (110)
Reaction to Abraham Lincoln's death and description
of the funeral ceremonies, 1865 (193)
Notes concerning lectures by Herndon on Abraham Lincoln's
religious opinions, 1873-1875 (194)
"Death of Abraham Lincoln," notes and early drafts,
[1875] (195)
Memoranda during the War, printed pages, [1875] (196)
Letters from A. J. Bloor, 7-9 June 1879 (197)
"Abraham Lincoln," manuscript draft, [1888] (198)
"Extracts from Lamon's Life of Lincoln," broadside,
1886 (199)
"Abraham Lincoln," cover page, n.d. (200)
Newspaper clippings about the life and death of Abraham
Lincoln, 1865-1886 (201)
Miscellany
Advertisement copies for Leaves of Grass, Passage to
India, and Democratic Vistas, [1871?] (207)
"To Walt Whitman," a poem by Guillermo Dulce, 6 Apr.
1876 (210)
Proofs and offprints
"Death of Abraham Lincoln," [ca. 1879] (295)
"Walt Whitman Last Night," 1880 (317g renumbered as
295e)
"My 71st Year," ca. 1890 (317f)
Box 6
Reel 4
"Whitman Broadsides," 1855-1889
(Catalog item nos. 202-203, 213)
Reprints of three Whitman articles, a printed copy of
a letter to Whitman from Ralph Waldo Emerson dated 21
July 1855, and a canceled check which were mounted and
bound in a single volume entitled, "Whitman Broadsides--1855."
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
Box 6
Reel 4
Check for fifty dollars from Whitman to Oldach & Co.,
3 Oct. 1889 (213)
Printed copy of letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson, 21
July 1855 (202)
Reprints of three articles on Whitman and his poetry,
1855 (203)
Box 6
Reel 4
Photocopies, [1847]-[1876], n.d.
(Catalog item nos. 80, 84, 86-89, 94, 101, 105, 111,
220).
Photocopies of selections from the ten missing notebooks
and cardboard butterfly made from the manuscripts prior
to their disappearance from the Library of Congress.
Organized by type of material and arranged chronologically
therein.
Box 6
Reel 4
Notebooks
[1847] (80)
[Before 1855] (84, 86-87)
[1857?], "Oratory" (88)
[1859] (89)
[1862-1863] (94)
[ca. 1863-1864], Washington hospital notebook (101)
[1865], hospital notebook (105)
[1876], reading book (111)
Cardboard butterfly, n.d. (220)
Box 7
Reel 4-5
Supplementary Papers, 1842-1937, n.d.
Letters between correspondents other than Whitman, notes
and writings, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and
transcripts of notebooks. Additional photocopies of
portions of a missing notebook (item no. 84) are also
included.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
Box 7
Reel 4-5
Correspondence, 1919-1937, n.d.
Notes and writings, n.d.
Miscellany
Brochure for notebooks missing from the Harned collection,
draft and copy, n.d.
Facsimile of letter from Whitman, 14 June 1842
Newspaper clippings, 1848-1902, n.d.
(2 folders)
Printed matter, 1871-1921, n.d.
Transcripts
Box 7
Reel 4-5
Diary, [1863]
(98)
Notebooks, [1862]-[1864]
(94-95, 100, 103)
Whitman letter to William M. Rossetti, 20 Jan. 1872
Will and testament, ca. 1882
Photocopies
Burroughs, John, "At the Nest," 1917
Cardboard butterfly, n.d. (220)
Notebooks
Box 7
Reel 4-5
[1847]
(80)
[Before 1855]
(84, 86)
(2 folders)
[1860-1861]
(91)
Box 8
Reel 6
Recovered Cardboard Butterfly and Notebooks, [1847]-[ca.
1863-1864], n.d.
(Catalog item nos. 80, 86, 94, 101, 220).
Items available online.
Cardboard butterfly and four notebooks containing diary
entries, poetry drafts and trial lines, prose drafts,
notes on Civil War hospital patients, names and addresses,
and miscellaneous notes. These are the items numbered
1, 2, 5, 7, and 11 in the Library's 1954 pamphlet "Ten
Notebooks and a Cardboard Butterfly Missing from the
Walt Whitman Papers."
Organized by type of material and arranged chronologically
therein.
Box 8
Reel 6
Cardboard butterfly, n.d. (220)
Notebooks
[1847] (80)
[Before 1855] (86)
[1862-1863] (94)
[ca. 1863-1864], Washington hospital notebook (101)
September 8, 2003
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