Walt Whitman Papers 1837-1957 (bulk 1840-1891)

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Walt Whitman Papers 1837-1957 (bulk 1840-1891)

Poet. Correspondence, family papers, holograph drafts of Whitman's poetry and prose, printed matter, and miscellany. Includes a printed copy of with Whitman's handwritten corrections and letters exchanged with Abraham Leech, Whitman's earliest known correspondence. O Captain! My Captain!

150 items; 2 containers plus 1 artifact; 1.2 linear feet; 2 microfilm reels

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Whitman family.

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Leech, Abraham

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Abraham Leech (1815-1886) lived in Jamaica, New York. He is widely known as Walt Whitman's friend and earliest correspondent. He was a book keeper in Jamaica and member of the Presbyterian Church. From the description of Jamaica journal & reporter: manuscript newspapers, 1846-1847. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 611174987 ...

Diggins, E. F. E. F. Diggins plaster bust of Walt Whitman. 1939.

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Whitman family.

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Furness, Clifton Joseph, 1898-1946

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Furness earned his Harvard AM in 1928. From the description of A study of the development of interest in folk ballads in the eighteenth century / Clifton Joseph Furness. January 1929. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77075837 Editor and scholar of Walt Whitman's life and writings. From the description of Correspondence, 1940. (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155478873 Clifton Joseph Furness, was born in She...

Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862

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Martin Van Buren (b. Kinderhook, New York, December 5, 1782-d. July 24, 1862, Kinderhook, New York), studied law, was admitted to bar, New York, 1803; moved to Huson surrogate of Columbia Co.; member of State Senate, 1813-1820; attorney general of New York, 1815-1819; delegate to state constitutional convention, 1821; U.S. Senate Democrat, March 4, 1821-1828; Governor of New York, 1828-1829; U.s. Secretary of State, March 12, 1829 - August 1, 1831; Vice President, 1832; President, 1836-1840....

Democratic Party (U.S.)

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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...

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...

Leach family

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Whitman, Louisa Van Velsor, 1795-1873

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Walt Whitman's mother. From the description of Autograph letters signed (11) : to Miss Helen Price, daughter of Mrs. Abby H. Price, from Camden, N.J., [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270588665 ...

Heyde, Hannah Louisa Whitman, 1823-1908

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Sister of Walt Whitman. From the description of Papers of Hannah Louisa Whitman Heyde, 1853-1892. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455644 ...

Leech, Abraham. Abraham Leech correspondence and diary. 1837-

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