Walt Whitman correspondence, documents, and photograph

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unitid

{"value"=>"4676", "type"=>"local_mss"}

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{"value"=>"MssCol 4676", "type"=>"local_call"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1867-1888", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1867/1888"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Walt Whitman correspondence, documents, and photograph"}

physdesc

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repository

{"id"=>"MSS", "value"=>"Manuscripts and Archives Division"}

abstract

{"value"=>"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 <span class=\"title\">New York Daily Tribune</span>, concerning his subscription, 1880, and enclosing a letter for the Summer Leisure column (not present), 1881; two undated notes likely addressed to the <span class=\"title\">Tribune</span>, 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 <span class=\"title\">Leaves of Grass</span>, 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."}

prefercite

{"value"=>"<p>Walt Whitman correspondence, documents, and photograph, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}

origination

{"value"=>"Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"creator"}

acqinfo

{"value"=>"<p>Donated by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1899, as part of the Ford collection, and other donations, 1925 and 1950.</p>"}

processinfo

{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Compiled by <span class=\"name\">Susan P. Waide</span>, <span class=\"date\">2017</span></p>"}

date_start

1867

keydate

1867

date_end

1888

date_inclusive_start

1867

date_inclusive_end

1888

extent_statement

.1 linear feet (1 folder)

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