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Guide to the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts in Treasures From Walt Whitman, Huntington Public Library, Huntington, New York
Original records created by Huntington Public Library; revised and expanded by the Walt Whitman Archive and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. Encoded Archival Description completed through the assistance of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation, the University of Nebraska Research Council, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
This finding aid was created, in part, from digital images of the original manuscripts obtained by The Walt Whitman Archive. The original papers and catalog records are held at the Huntington Public Library.
Title: Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts in Treasures From Walt Whitman, Huntington Public Library, Huntington, New York
Collection Number: R B WHITMAN
Creator:
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Repository: Huntington Public Library
Abstract:
This finding aid was created, in part, from digital images of the original manuscripts obtained by The Walt Whitman Archive. The original papers and catalog records are held at the Huntington Public Library.
Scope and Content:
The Huntington Public Library in Huntington, New York, has four items written by Walt Whitman: a letter, a postcard, a poetry manuscript (with a verso letter), and a prose manuscript. This electronic finding aid includes item-level descriptions of only the poetry and prose manuscripts.
Biographical Information:
For additional biographical information, see
"Walt Whitman," by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price, and the
chronology of Whitman's Life.
Subjects: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892;
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts;
Poets, American--19th century;
Series Description and Item Lists
Whitman Archive ID: hpl.00002
Title: "[We know of no beginning in universal literature any more]"
Date: about 1856
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
View Images: 1
Draft of unpublished prose work regarding the beginnings of "universal literature." Pasted to the page is a clipping from an unknown newspaper with the heading "Greeks, Romans, Hebrews." This document has been titled by other collectors "The Dawn of Poetry" (Charles E. Feinberg) and "Beginning of Literature, 1856" (Richard Maurice Bucke). The relationship of this document to Whitman's published work is unknown.
Item: 2
Whitman Archive ID: hpl.00001
Title: "[Yet far sweeps your road]"
Date: about 1865
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
View Images: 1 | 2
A draft of the poem "Thick-Sprinkled Bunting," first published in Drum-Taps in 1865. On the verso is an undated letter draft to an unknown editor regarding Whitman's ambition to "start a public demand for the general exchange of prisoners of war."
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Repository Contact Information:
Huntington Public Library
338 Main Street
Huntington, NY 11743