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Guide to the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts in the Albert M. Bender Collection, Special Collections Department, F. W. Olin Library, Mills College
Original records created by the Special Collections Department, F. W. Olin Library, Mills College; 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 Krieble Delmas Foundation, the University of Nebraska Research Council, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
Title: Walt Whitman Manuscripts from the Albert M. Bender Collection, Special Collections Department, F. W. Olin Library, Mills College
Collection Identifier: Albert M. Bender Collection of Rare Books and Manuscripts
Creator:
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Collector:
Albert M. Bender
Repository: F. W. Olin 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 finding aid are held in the Special Collections Department, F. W. Olin Library, Mills College.
Scope and Content:
The Albert M. Bender collection at Mills College contains three Walt Whitman manuscripts: a postal card, a prose manuscript, and a poetry manuscript. This electronic finding aid includes an item-level description of only the document deemed a poetry manuscript.
Biographical Information:
Albert M. Bender was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1866 and died in San Francisco, California in 1941. He came to San Francisco when he was sixteen and started out as an errand boy in the insurance business. Bender was an insurance broker by profession, a patron of the arts, and trustee of Mills College. He was so widely known and respected that a letter addressed simply "Saint Albert of San Francisco" once reached him through the U.S. Mail. He had friends of distinguished reputation throughout California and indeed throughout the world.
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: mil.00001
Title: "Waves in the Vessel's wake"
Date: about 1874
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
View Images: 1 | 2
Heavily revised draft of a poem that, after extensive further revision, was published first in the December 1874 issue of the New York Daily Graphic as "In the Wake Following." The poem first appeared under its final title, "After the Sea-Ship," in 1876, in the "Sea-Drift" group of Two Rivulets.
Restrictions on Original Materials: Please consult with repository.
Preferred Citation: To identify this finding aid as a source, see the Archive's "Conditions of Use" page.
Repository Contact Information:
F. W. Olin Library
Mills College
5000 MacArthur Boulevard
Oakland, CA, 94613