Thomas Biggs Harned collection of Walt Whitman papers 1842-1937 (bulk 1855-1892)

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Thomas Biggs Harned collection of Walt Whitman papers 1842-1937 (bulk 1855-1892)

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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.

3,000 items plus 2 oversize; 8 containers; 4 linear feet; 7 microfilm reels

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Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6356104

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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Gilchrist, Anne Burrows, 1828-1885

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Harned, Thomas Biggs, 1851-1921

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Lawyer. From the description of Thomas Biggs Harned collection of the papers of Walt Whitman, 1842-1937 (bulk 1855-1892). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71015543 Close friend and literary executor of Walt Whitman. From the description of T. B. Harned letter to Mr. Clements [manuscript], 1920 Aug 25. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 420344330 Biographical Note Whitman, Walt ...

Stoddart, J. M. (Joseph Marshall), 1845-1921

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Ticknor, Benjamin Holt, 1842-1914

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Editor and publisher. From the description of Papers of Benjamin Holt Ticknor, 1595-1935 (bulk 1850-1920). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71066489 American publisher. From the description of Letter : Benjamin H. Ticknor to "Fairchild," 1888 November 16 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647824664 ...

Kennedy, William Sloane, 1850-1929

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Friend and biographer of Walt Whitman. From the description of Letters, 1926, West Yarmouth, to Perry Walton, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 184906845 Author. From the description of The fight of a book for the world : typescript draft, [1926?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81993554 ...

Osgood, James R. (James Ripley), 1836-1892

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James R. Osgood was a native of Maine who went to work for the publishing house of Ticknor and Fields. He eventually founded the subsidiary group James R. Osgood & Co. which was associated with many fine writers. The firm struggled financially, and when Osgood stepped down, was dissolved into Houghton, Mifflin. From the description of James R. Osgood letter to George L. Craik, 1879 June 2. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 54667691 Publisher....

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...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Scovel, James M. (James Matlack), 1833-1904

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New Haven, Connecticut owner of Scovel Manufacturing Co. maker of brass buttons, fasteners, looms and clocks, also served in Connecticut state senate, 1834. From the description of Recollection, Oct. 1904. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 54682244 From the description of Personal recollections of Abraham Lincoln and recollections of Lincoln and Seward. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 54682245 ...

Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William), 1857-1920

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