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Guide to the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts in the Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Original records created by Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries; 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 Poetry Manuscripts in the Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Collection Number: N/A


Creator:  Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892


Repository: Special Collections and University Archives

Abstract:
This finding aid was created, in part, from catalog records and digital images of the original manuscripts obtained by The Walt Whitman Archive. The original papers and catalog records are held at Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Scope and Content: 
Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries, holds thirteen items, including correspondence, prose notes, proof sheets, broadsides, printed copies, and a poetry manuscript. This electronic finding aid includes an item-level description of only the document deemed a poetry manuscript.

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


Item: 1
Whitman Archive ID: rut.00001
Manuscript ID: Ac. 545
Title:  "Hush'd be the camps to-day"
Date: about 1865
Physical Description: 4 leaves
View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4 
Draft of "Hush'd Be the Camps To-day," first published in 1865, on four leaves. Three of the scraps are smaller and were formerly pasted to the larger leaf.


Restrictions:  None

Preferred Citation:  To identify this finding aid as a source, see the Archive's "Conditions of Use" page.


Repository Contact Information:
Special Collections and University Archives
Archibald S. Alexander Library
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
169 College Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1163


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