Transcripts from lost notebooks of Walt Whitman. Collected by Edward F. Grier. Copied ca. 1900-1976. Ca. 1900-1976

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Transcripts from lost notebooks of Walt Whitman. Collected by Edward F. Grier. Copied ca. 1900-1976. Ca. 1900-1976

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Walt Whitman (1819-1892) wrote drafts and jottings in notebooks which (or leaves from which) were collected by various people. A large group (the Thomas B. Harned Collection) went to the Library of Congress (LC); ten of those notebooks (LC numbers 80, 84, 86-89, 94, 101, 111, 220) were lost in the 1940s. Photostats of a few pages had been made, a few texts printed, and several people had previously transcribed selections fromt he notebooks. The collection described here consists of photocopies of transcripts that Professor Emory Holloway of Brooklyn College and others had made, annotated and given to Professor Edward F. Grier, KU Department of English. The fragile original transcripts, mostly typed before 1920, do not circulate, and are shelved at . Grier, who often marked the transcripts, used them when editing his book, (NY: NYC Press, 1984), shelved at Special Collections D2538. Other Grier Whitman material is to be found int he University Archives at call number in the Personal Papers of Edward F. Grier, a collection including notes, correspondence and proofs for his book. MS Pryce P1 PP 302 Notes and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts of Walt Whitman

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University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Department of Special Collections

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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892

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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), poet and author. From the description of Walt Whitman collection, 1842-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702172830 Poet, journalist, essayist. From the description of Letter, 1863 July 27-1863 Sept. 9. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 477038304 American author. From the description of Letter to Mary E. Van Nostrand, 1890 November 28. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 49377819 America...

Grier, Edward F., 1917-2004

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Grier received his A.B. from Pennsylvania in 1938, his M.A. from Columbia in 1939, and his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania in 1949. He joined the faculty of the University of Kansas in the Department of English in 1951, reaching full Professor status in 1962. He retired in 1984. From the guide to the Personal Papers of Edward F. Grier, 1951-1984, (University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library University Archives) ...

Holloway, Emory, 1885-1977

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Emory Holloway was a pioneering scholar of Walt Whitman whose biography of Whitman (Whitman, Whitman, an Interpretation in Narrative, Knopf, 1926) won the Pulitzer Prize in 1927, the first time that the Pulitzer was awarded to a book about a major literary figure. From the description of Walt Whitman : clippings from the files of Emory Holloway : scrapbook with autograph notes, [1892-1931]. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 747350515 ...