Found 1 collection related to Johnston, John H. (Jeweler of New York, N.Y.)

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was a 19th-century American poet, essayist, and journalist. His copy of Poems Songs and Letters, Being the Complete Works of Robert Burns... edited by Alexander Smith (London: Macmillan, 1879), contains annotations and material dating from 1879 to 1902, including Whitman's holograph annotations of the text; annotated newspaper clippings about Burns; a tear sheet copy of Whitman's "Robert Burns as Poet and Person" from the North American Review with Whitman's corrections; a silk ribbon; and a letter from John H. Johnston to Andrew Carnegie. less