Inventory of the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, 1841-1992, bulk 1845-1849, 1854-1857, and 1864-1892
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TitleTrent Collection of Whitmaniana, 1841-1992, bulk 1845-1849, 1854-1857, and 1864-1892
Creator
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Extent
ca. 40 Linear Feet
ca. 650 Items
Repository
ca. 650 Items
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University
Language
English.
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Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The bulk of Duke University's Walt Whitman holdings were acquired through a series of substantial donations made by Dr. and Mrs. Josiah C. Trent, from whom the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana takes its name. Much of the Trent material was originally gathered by Richard Maurice Bucke, Whitman's friend and literary executor, who sold manuscript versions of his biography of Whitman, along with his collection of unpublished letters and Whitman's personal papers and books, in London in 1935. The next year, Jacob Schwartz offered for sale in New York a large portion of the Whitman holdings that had belonged to Bucke, and many of the items listed in the catalogue of this sale were a part of the original donation made to Duke by Dr. and Mrs. Trent in 1942. The Trent family made several important additions to their initial bequest in the years following the establishment of the collection, but Duke University does not expect its Whitman manuscript holdings to expand at any time in the near future.
Processing Information
Processed by Melissa Delbridge and Daniel Breen. Completed October 29, 2003. Much of the collection was rehoused by Christian Ferney, May 2009.
Finding aid encoded by Michael Shumate and Elizabeth Arnold.
Finding aid revised by Christine Kirkham and Paolo Mangiafico, December 2006. Encoding updated by Jill Katte, December 2007. Updates made to finding aid by Christian Ferney, May 2009.
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
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Biographical Note
| 1819 May 31 | Born Walter Whitman in West Hills, Huntington Township, N.Y. to Walter and Louisa (VanVelsor) Whitman |
| 1823 | Whitman family moved to Brooklyn |
| 1825-1830 | Attended Brooklyn public schools |
| 1830-1831 | Worked as office boy for lawyer and doctor |
| 1831-1832 | Printing apprentice for Long Island Patriot |
| 1832-1835 | Worked as compositor for Long Island Star |
| 1836-1838 | Taught school on Long Island |
| 1838-1839 | Worked on two newspapers, Long Islander and Long Island Democrat |
| 1840 | Campaigned for Martin Van Buren |
| 1840-1841 | Taught school on Long Island |
| 1841 | Moved to New York City; worked as compositor for The New World |
| 1842-1845 | Worked for and contributed to various newspapers in New York City |
| 1845-1846 | Returned to Brooklyn and worked for Evening Star |
| 1846-1848 | Edited Brooklyn's Daily Eagle |
| 1848 | Left Daily Eagle, went to New Orleans to edit Daily Crescent. Resigned and returned to Brooklyn. |
| 1848-1849 | Founded and edited Weekly Freeman, a "free-soil" newspaper |
| 1849-1854 | Operated printing office, bookstore, and house building business and did freelance journalism |
| 1855 | Copyrighted first edition of Leaves of Grass |
| 1855-1856 | Wrote for Life Illustrated; published second edition of Leaves of Grass |
| 1857-1860 | Edited Brooklyn Daily Times |
| 1860 | Published third edition of Leaves of Grass |
| 1861-1862 | Wrote freelance journalism; visited soldiers in New York Hospital; visited wounded brother in Fredericksburg |
| 1863-1864 | Moved to Washington, D.C.; worked as clerk in Army Paymaster's Office; visited military hospitals; returned to Brooklyn for 6 months in 1864 |
| 1865 | Returned to Washington, D.C. and worked as clerk in Indian Bureau of Department of the Interior; began and suspended printing of Drum-Taps; discharged by Secretary James Harlan for writing "obscene" poetry; transferred to clerkship in Attorney General's Office; again published Drum-Taps and Sequel; began relationship with Peter Doyle |
| 1866 | William D. O'Connor published The Good Gray Poet, a defense co-written by Whitman in response to Whitman's firing by Harlan |
| 1867 | 4th edition of Leaves of Grass published |
| 1868 | Poems of Walt Whitman published in London |
| 1870 | 5th edition of Leaves of Grass published |
| 1873 | Suffered paralytic stroke; mother died on May 23rd; moved in with brother George in Camden, N.J. |
| 1874 | Discharged from his position in Washington, D.C. |
| 1876 | Published Centennial edition of Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets, and Memoranda During the War; befriended Harry Stafford |
| 1879 | Gave first Lincoln lecture in New York |
| 1882 | Publicity concerning the suppression of Leaves of Grass in Boston resulted in unprecedented sales |
| 1888 | Suffered a second paralytic stroke; made will naming Richard Maurice Bucke, Thomas Harned, and Horace Traubel literary executors |
| 1889 | 70th birthday commemorated in Camden's Compliment to Walt Whitman |
| 1892 | Died March 26th; buried in Harleigh Cemetery, Camden, N.J. |
Collection Overview
The Trent Collection of Whitmaniana incorporates material spanning the dates 1841-1947, with the bulk of the material dating from 1845-1849, 1854-1857, and 1864-1892. The virtual reorganization of the collection, based upon that devised by Ellen F. Frey in A Bibliography of Walt Whitman (Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1945), divides it into six series: Correspondence, Writings, Clippings, Material About or Relating to Whitman, Portraits, and Miscellany.
Correspondence is separated into two subseries: "Letters To or About Walt Whitman," and "Letters From or By Walt Whitman." Most of Whitman's letters in the collection were written between 1880 and 1891. The Clippings Series lists both large groups of clippings collected and annotated by Whitman, and clippings Whitman took from complete or nearly complete articles. Whenever possible, these have been dated according to the periodical in which the articles originally appeared. Material About or Relating to Whitman is comprised of four subseries that catalog manuscript versions of Richard Maurice Bucke's biography of Whitman, other manuscript material written mostly by Whitman's friends, and books, pamphlets, and periodicals about Whitman's life and work, most of which date between the late nineteenth century and the end of World War II. The Portraits Series includes formal photographic and painted portraits, etchings, engravings, and sketches, both of Whitman and of other subjects, including George Sand, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Whitman's brother George. The Miscellany consists of ephemera related to Whitman's life and career as a poet. Two scrapbooks, a leaflet of receipts, book wrappers for the first edition of Leaves of Grass, and documents relating to the Whitman fund are listed among this series' eclectic contents.
By far the largest series in the collection, the Writings Series contains manuscript and printed versions of poetry and prose dating from Whitman's career in journalism up through the mid-1940s. It is divided into seven subseries: Manuscript Poems (1855-1882 and undated); Manuscript Prose (1852-1891 and undated); Proofs (1874-1891 and undated); Poems Set to Music (1901-1933); Books and Periodicals Containing Contributions by Whitman (1841-1924); Editions of Whitman's Writings (1855-1944); and Bibliographies and Catalogs (1922-1943). The first subseries, "Manuscript Poems," is further subdivided into categories intended to define three separate levels of poetic composition: manuscript versions of poems that appear in at least one edition of Leaves of Grass, manuscript versions of poems not published in Leaves of Grass, and verse fragments and outlines. The researcher is advised to consult the NYU Collected Writings of Walt Whitman, particularly Harold W. Blodgett and Sculley Bradley, eds., Leaves of Grass: A Comprehensive Reader's Edition (New York: NYUP, 1965), pp. 585-706, for publication of previously uncollected material. Although older, Oscar Lovell Triggs, ed., Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, vol. 3 of 10 (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1902) and Clarence Gohdes and Rollo G. Silver, eds., Faint Clews and Indirections: Manuscripts of Walt Whitman and His Family (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1949) are also helpful, the former particularly when used alongside Frey's Bibliography.
The Manuscript Prose Subseries in the Writings Series is further divided into seven categories. The first three are comprised of manuscript versions of stories, prefaces, and essays and lectures, respectively. Four less distinct subheadings follow. "Notes on Literature" represents an almost exact transliteration of Frey's category of the same name, however it should be noted that this category does not, at the time of writing, list all of Trent's holdings in Whitman's literary-critical manuscripts. Some literary criticism is contained in "Autobiographical Manuscripts" and "Whitman on His Own Writings," along with more purely impressionistic self-reflection. "Miscellany" should also be consulted, as it brings together in an unsystematic way Whitman's notes on travel, reading, and education as well as a scattering of notes on poetry and different forms of literary production.
The last five subseries of the Writings Series bring together various published versions of Whitman's writing. Annotated proofs of his poetry and prose are identified in the finding aid, and cross-references are included between the Proofs Subseries and the Books and Periodicals Containing Contributions by Whitman Subseries in instances where the Trent Collection lists both a proof and a published version of a poem or article among its headings. The Books and Periodicals Containing Contributions by Whitman Subseries and the Bibliographies and Catalogs Subseries are nearly comprehensive surveys of pre-World War II editions of Whitman's writing and of Whitman bibliographies. The Poems Set to Music Subseries catalogs a number of Whitman's poems that were given musical settings, mostly in the first two decades of the twentieth century. See Bella C. Landauer, Leaves of Music by Walt Whitman, call number Trent I-9, for full bibliographic information on these pieces.
Many published works by and about Walt Whitman and housed in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library have been cataloged individually. These can be found by searching the Duke online catalog.
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Subject Headings
These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
- Trent, Josiah C. (Josiah Charles), 1914-
- Bucke, Richard Maurice, 1837-1902.
- Frey, Ellen Frances. Catalogue of the Whitman collection in the Duke University Library, 1945: t.p. (Ellen Frances Frey)
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Portraits.
- Sand, George, 1804-1876. Portraits.
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894. Portraits.
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of grass.
- American literature--19th century.
- Poets, American--19th century.
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892—Manuscripts.
- Poets, American--19th century.
Detailed Description of Collection
Correspondence Series, 1860-1922 and undated
Letters to and from friends, family members, editors, publishers, and soldiers Whitman met during his time as a nurse in military hospitals in and around Washington, D. C. primarily during the Civil War. However, correspondence is dated both during and after the war.
Correspondence to or About Whitman Subseries, 1860-1922 and undated (bulk 1860-1892)
Includes letters from friends, family members, and soldiers. Many of the letters have been bound into various scrapbooks and collections of other Whitman papers, and it is advisable to consult the reference archivist with regard to the physical provenance of the material before requesting correspondence in bulk. Listed alphabetically by author.
Bucke, Richard Maurice
III [display]:
To Reuben Farwell (Typescript), 1898 Oct. 14
III-5A:
To W. D. O'Connor, 1880 July 1
To Walt Whitman, 1888 Aug. 17
To Walt Whitman, 1889 Jan. 18
III-5B:
To Editor of Scribner's Monthly, undated
Burroughs, Julian
II-9D:
To Bayard Wyman, undated
Chainey, George
III-5B:
To W. D. O'Connor, 1882 July 11
Includes two clippings on Massachusetts controversy over Leaves of Grass.
To W. D. O'Connor, 1882 July 30
Davenport, William E.
III-5B:
To Dr. William Roscoe Thayer, 1921 Nov. 26
To Dr. William Roscoe Thayer, 1922 Jan. 8
To Dr. William Roscoe Thayer, 1922 Apr. 10
Doyle, Peter
III-5B:
To Walt Whitman 1868 Sept. 21
Farwell, Reuben
III-5 [III display]:
To Walt Whitman, 1864 Apr. 30
To Walt Whitman, 1864 May 5
To Walt Whitman, 1864 May 10
To Walt Whitman, 1864 June 8
To Walt Whitman, 1864 Oct. 2
To Walt Whitman, 1864 Nov. 7
To Walt Whitman, 1864 Nov. 21
To Walt Whitman, [1865?] June 16
To Walt Whitman, 1875 Feb. 11
To Walt Whitman, 1875 Mar. 5
To Walt Whitman, 1875 Aug. 16
Hay, John
Common Room:
To "Charlie," 1861 Aug. 2
Includes a picture of Hay.
Heyde, Charles L.
III-5B:
To Louisa Whitman, 1868 Nov. 24
To Louisa Whitman, 1868 Dec.
III-5A:
To Louisa Whitman, 1852-1873
(8 letters)
To Walt Whitman, 1860-1892
(67 letters)
Heyde, Hannah Whitman
III-5B:
To Louisa Whitman, undated
Written as addition to letter of 1868 Nov. 24 by her husband listed above.
III-5A:
To Louisa Whitman, undated
(5 letters)
Three of these letters are written as additions to those by her husband listed above.
To Walt Whitman, undated
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
III-5B: [II display]:
To unidentified recipient, 1890 Feb. 18
Includes an autographed photograph of Holmes, Cf. Portraits of Others Subseries
Hugo, Victor
III-5B:
To Arthur Monnanteuil, 1868 July 7
Walt Whitman's translation of Hugo's letter, with a signed photograph of Whitman, Cf. Portraits of Whitman Subseries
Price, Abby H.
III-5B:
To Louisa Whitman, undated
Price, Helen E.
III-5B:
To Louisa Whitman, 1872 Oct. 13
To Louisa Whitman, 1872 Nov. 24
To Louisa Whitman, 1873 Jan. 1
To Louisa Whitman, 1873 Jan. 31
To Louisa Whitman, 1873 Feb. 9
To Louisa Whitman, [1873?],
"Saturday"
To Louisa Whitman, 1873 Mar. 27
Stansberry, William
II-9C:
To Walt Whitman, 1873 Dec. 9
To Walt Whitman, 1874 May 12
To Walt Whitman, 1874 June 28
To Walt Whitman, 1875 July 21
To Walt Whitman from Stansberry's wife, 1874 July 15
Van Nostrand, Mary Whitman
III-5B:
To Louisa Whitman, [1875?] Feb. 16
To Walt Whitman, 1875 Feb. 16
Whitman, George
III-5C:
To Louisa Whitman, 1861-1865
(46 letters)
To Walt Whitman, 1861-1865
(8 letters)
To Thomas Jefferson Whitman, undated
Whitman, Louisa
III-5D:
To Walt Whitman, 1860-1873
(142 letters)
Whitman, Thomas Jefferson
III-5C:
To Walt Whitman, undated
Correspondence from or by Whitman Subseries, 1861-1891
Contains letters by friends and family members, editors, publishers, and soldiers. As with the Correspondence to or about Whitman Subseries, many letters in this subseries are bound with other material and the reference archivist should be contacted before correspondence is requested in bulk. Most of Whitman's letters in the Trent Collection date from 1880 to 1891. See also transcribed correspondence from or by Whitman in the Bliss Perry Whitman Collection in the Miscellany Series. Listed alphabetically by recipient.
Bradley, Tom
II-9C:
1880 Dec. 17
1881 Mar. 17
1883 Sept. 5
Bucke, Richard Maurice
II-9A:
1892 Jan. 27
Burroughs, John
II-9C:
1868 Oct. 22 [?]
III-1:
1878 July 5
II-9A:
1885 June 23
Burroughs, John and Ursula
II-9D:
1875 Mar. 2
Carpenter, Edward
II-9D:
1877 Oct. 5
Includes two pictures of Whitman, Cf. Portraits of Whitman Subseries
II-9A:
1877 Nov. 27
II-9D:
1885 Aug. 5
Contemporary Club, Executive Committee
II-9A:
1888 Feb. 15
Cox, George
II-9A:
1887 June 14
Dowden, Edward
II-9D:
1876 Mar. 4
Doyle, Peter
II-9A:
1877 July 2
1880 July 24
Dec. 20
Edmunds, J. M., Postmaster
II-9B:
Nov. 17
Eldridge, Charley
II-9A:
1873 July 7
1884 May 7
Harper's Magazine
II-9A:
To Editor, 1873 Nov. 2
To Foreman in the Composing Room, 1873 Dec. 15
II-9D:
Johnson, R. U.
1884 Aug. 4
Kennedy, William Sloane
I-8C:
1881 Dec. 21
1886 Aug. 5
1887 Feb. 21
1887 Mar. 1
1887 June 13
1887 July 13
1887 Sept. 14
II-9A:
1887 Oct. 4
I-8C:
1887 Nov. 17
1888 January 10
1888 Mar. 26
1888 May 7
1888 Sept. 1
1888 Oct. 19
1889 Jan. 5
II-9A:
1889 Feb. 14
1889 Oct. 13
1889 Oct. 17
1890 Jan. 27
1890 Feb. 10
1890 Apr. 11
Includes a photograph of Whitman, a ticket to his lecture on Lincoln at Madison Square Theater, 1887 14 Apr., and a clipping from the Philadelphia Press, 1887 16 Apr. describing the lecture. For other material on this lecture, Cf. Miscellany Series; for the photographs, Cf. Portraits of Whitman Subseries
1890 Apr. 11
II-9D:
1890 June 18
1890 Aug. 4
1890 Dec. 29
I-8C:
1881-1889
(77 postcards)
"McGuire"
II-9D:
1872 May 2
O'Connor, William D.
II-9C:
1868 Oct. 4
Rolleston, T. W. H.
I-4:
1880 Dec. 2
Rosetti, William
III-8A:
1886 May 30
Russell, Dr. LeBaron [?]
I-9C:
1864 Feb.
Ryder, Jr., Anson
II-9C:
1866 Dec. 14
Stansberry, William
II-9C:
1874 May 20
Stilwell, Julia Elizabeth
II-9C:
1863 Oct. 21
Stoddart, J. M.
II-9D:
1890 Apr. 24
Includes proof copy of "To the Sun-Set Breeze," Cf. Poems Set to Music Subseries
Swinton, John
II-9C:
1865 Feb. 3
Includes a letter from General Grant's staff
Tilton, J. W.
II-9D:
1889 Jan. 6
Tottie, Oscar
II-9C:
July 26
Trowbridge, J. T. [?]
II-9D:
1870 [?] Sept. 24
Trubner and Company
II-9C:
1873 Dec. 21
II-9D:
1878 Oct. 1 [?]
Van Wyck, Samuel
II-9D:
1879 May 28
Waters, George
II-9D:
1878 Nov. 10
Whitman, George
II-9C:
1861 July 12
Whitman, Louisa
II-9B:
1866 June 26
II-9D:
1866 June 29
II-9B:
1867 Mar. 19
1867 Mar. 26
1867 Apr. 16
1867 Apr. 30
1868 June 6
1868 July 10
1868 Aug. 24
1868 Aug. 30
1868 Nov. 24
1872 Aug. 22
1872 Aug. 27
1872 Oct. 15
1872 [?] Nov. 14
1873 Jan. 17
Whitman, Thomas Jefferson
II-9C:
1867 Apr. 29
Wilkins, Edward
II-9B:
1889 Dec. 31
1890 Mar. 20
1890 Apr. 29
1890 Dec. 24
1891 Sept. 30
Letters to Unidentified Recipients
II-9D:
1889 Oct. 7
1891 May 8
Writings Series, 1841-1944 and undated
Consists of manuscript drafts and revisions of Whitman's poetry and prose as well as proofs and published versions of his work from his early career in journalism up through the end of his life. The categorization of the manuscript material is necessarily inexact, and it is recommended that the researcher consult Ellen F. Frey's A Bibliography of Walt Whitman, Being a Catalog of the Trent Collection of Duke University, for detailed descriptions of the manuscript fragments. A copy of Frey's Bibliography is available from the reference staff upon request. The Writings Series also contains published versions of certain of Whitman's poems that were set to music by several different composers. For a comprehensive guide to these works, see Frey or see Bella C. Landauer, Leaves of Music by Walt Whitman, call number Trent I-9.
Manuscript Poems Subseries, ca. 1855 and undated
Manuscript drafts and revisions of poems appearing in successive editions of Leaves of Grass and poems not published during Whitman's lifetime or not intended for Leaves of Grass.
Leaves of Grass
Manuscript fragments are labeled "draft portions" if they constitute early drafts or revisions of a poem appearing in any of the editions of Leaves of Grass published during Whitman's lifetime. Fragments are labeled "draft outlines" if Frey suggests that they represent "ideas" treated in Leaves of Grass. Listed alphabetically by title.
MS 4to 14:
"By Blue Ontario's Shore"
(Autograph MS, draft of 1856 version, portion)
MS 4to 20:
"Carols Closing Sixty-Nine"
(Autograph MS, title suggestions for
"Sands at Seventy"
)
MS 4to 9:
"Faces"
(Autograph MS, draft portions)
MS 4to 10:
"Great are the myths..."
(Autograph MS)
MS 4to 11:
"You lusty and graceflu youth!"
(draft portions)
MS 4to 195:
"In Paths Untrodden"
(Autograph MS, draft portions)
MS 19:
Leaves of Grass (Table of Contents, 1881-1882 edition, with instructions to the printer)
I-1:
Leaves of Grass (Autograph MS and printed pages, printer's copy for portions of 1881-1882 edition)
I.
"Inscriptions"
II.
"Song of Myself"
(Pages 1-23)
II.
"Song of Myself"
(Pages 24-48)
II.
"Song of Myself"
(Pages 49-72)
III.
"Children of Adam"
IV.
"Song of the Exposition "
V.
"Song of the Redwood"
VI.
"A Song for Occupations"
VII.
"Birds of Passage"
VIII.
"Broadway Pageant"
IX.
"By Blue Ontario's Shore"
X.
"Autumn Rivulets (Pages 1-26)"
X.
"Autumn Rivulets (Pages 27-53)"
XI.
"To Think of Time"
XII.
"Whispers of Heavenly Death"
XIII.
"From Noon to Starry Night"
MS 12mo 15:
"THE Poem (?One grand, eclipsing poem Poem of Materials)"
(Autograph MS, draft portions of "Starting from Paumanok" and "Mediums")
II-5A 17:
"Outlines for a Tomb"
(Autograph MS, draft outline)
II-5A 21:
"Pictures"
(Autograph MS, draft outline)
MS 4to 22:
"Theme for piece poem An opera"
(Autograph MS, draft portions of
"Proud Music of the Storm"
and
"The Mystic Trumpeter"
)
MS 4to 23:
"Proud Music of the Storm"
(Autograph MS, draft outline and corrections)
MS 4to 1:
"Song of Myself"
(Autograph MS, draft portions), including
"Unnamed Lands"
MS 2:
"Song of Myself"
(Autograph MS, draft portions)
" To be at all - ..."
MS 3:
"Song of Myself"
(Autograph MS, draft outlines)
" It is no miracle now..."
MS 4to 4:
"Song of Myself"
(Autograph MS, draft portions)
"Light and air!"
MS 4to 6:
"Song of Myself"
(Autograph MS, draft portions)
"Bibles, traditions, and formulas..."
MS 4to 7:
"Song of Myself"
(Autograph MS, draft portions)
"My Spirit sped back..."
II-7C 201:
"Song of Myself"
(Autograph MS, draft outlines)
"There is no word in any tongue"
II-5A 12:
"Song of the Broad-Axe"
(Autograph MS, draft outline)
MS 18:
"Song of the Redwood Tree"
(Autograph MS, draft portions)
MS 4to 8:
"A Song for Occupations"
(Autograph MS, draft outline)
MS 4to 194:
"A Song of Joys"
(Autograph MS, draft outline)
MS 4to 193:
"A Song of the Rolling Earth"
(Autograph MS, draft outline)
MS 4to 16:
"Proem These are the sights that I have absorbed in Manhattan Island"
(Draft outline, draft portions, possibly for use in "Starting from Paumanok")
MS 13:
"This Compost"
(Autograph MS, draft portions)
MS 4to 5:
"I know as well as you that Bibles are divine revelations"
(Autograph MS, draft portions of
"Who Learns My Lesson Complete?"
)
Poems Not Appearing in Leaves of Grass
Listed alphabetically by headings.
MS 4to 24:
"All Hands Round"
II-7C 200:
"I am not content now..."
MS 4to 25:
"I am that halfgrown angry boy..."
II-5A 26:
"Poem of Existence"
MS 12mo 27:
"Remembrances I plant American ground with"
MS 4to 202:
"Scantlings"
MS 4to 28:
"Thought"
Notes for Poems
Listed alphabetically by headings.
MS 2o 29:
Autograph MSS
"[Fragments and Ideas for Poems] (Frey's heading)"
MS 2o 30:
Autograph MSS
"[Notes for Poems] (Frey's heading)"
MS 2o 31:
Autograph MSS
"[Outlines for Poems] (Frey's heading)"
MS 4to 32:
Autograph MSS
"[Preliminary Studies for Poems] (Frey's heading)"
MS 2o 33:
Autograph MSS
"[Suggestions for Poems] (Frey's heading)"
Manuscript Prose Subseries, 1852-1891 and undated
Includes manuscript drafts and revisions of stories, prefaces, essays, lectures, Whitman's commentary on his own literary work and on that by other authors, autobiographical material, and a section of miscellany that consists of notes made on various subjects, the most prominent among them being travel and intellectual history. The fragments in each group are listed alphabetically by headings.
Stories
Listed alphabetically by headings or titles.
MS 4to 191:
"Distinctness every syllable"
(Autograph MS, draft portion)
MS 56:
"Of a summer evening a boy fell asleep"
(Autograph MS, complete draft)
MS 2o 38:
"This singular young man was unnoted for any strong qualities"
(Autograph MS, complete draft)
Prefaces
Listed alphabetically by headings.
MS 2o 47:
"Camden - Phila April 8, '84"
(Autograph MS, draft of preface to unpublished edition of Whitman's works)
MS 4to 62:
"Eidolons Preface Two Rivulets"
(Autograph MS, draft of preface to Two Rivulets, 1876)
MS 12mo 58:
"For Dem Vistas"
(Autograph MS, draft of preface to Democratic Vistas )
MS 4to 63:
"The name of this tells much of the story..."
(Autograph MS, draft of preface [?])
MS 4to 69:
"(Of the great poet) (Finally) For preface"
(Autograph MS, draft of introduction to [?])
MS 50:
"Struggling steadily to the front..."
(Autograph MS, draft of prefatory notes to
"Song of the Exposition,"
appearing in Two Rivulets )
Essays, Lectures, and Notes
Listed alphabetically by headings.
MS 12mo 61:
"America needs her own poems,..."
(Autograph MS, possibly a draft of a lecture commenting on 1855 preface to Leaves of Grass )
MS 12mo 60:
"Canada lecture"
(Autograph MS, partly published in Diary in Canada, p. 72)
MS 57:
"for Ottawa lecture"
(Autograph MS, draft outline)
MS 64:
"Founding a new American Religion (? No Religion)"
(Autograph MS, draft outline)
II-5B 42:
"It is no doubt impossible to say anything not already said..."
(Autograph MS, draft of a lecture on public education)
MS 65:
"It is said, perhaps rather quizzically by one of my friends..."
(Autograph MS, draft outline of a lecture on Canada)
MS 66:
"Italian Singers in America"
(Autograph MS, draft paragraph on the contralto Alboni)
MS 4to 44:
"Materialism"
(Autograph MS, draft of lecture/essay on evolution)
MS 4to 36:
"The mob, the trial of Warren Hastings, the death-bed of Robert Burns"
(Autograph MS, draft portion of an essay on Elias Hicks)
MS 2o 37:
"The Old World (Europe and Asia) is the region of the poetry of the past"
(Autograph MS, draft portion of the last paragraph of
"Shakespeare for America"
)
II-5A 41:
"Our own account of this poem, 'the German Iliad'"
(Autograph MS, draft of an essay of the Niebelungenlied and a translation of part of the poem)
MS 4to 45:
"? outset of lecture"
(Autograph MS, draft outline on preparation for study)
II-5A 39:
"Rel."
(Autograph MS, draft outline for a lecture on religion)
MS 48:
"Sculpture"
(Autograph MS, lecture/essay on the Greeks)
II-5A 40:
"Slavery - the Slaveholders - The Constitution..."
(Autograph MS, draft portions of antislavery speeches)
MS 54:
"Spring of '59 - read Dante's 'Inferno'"
(Autograph MS, draft of essay on Dante)
MS 2o 43:
"Wants"
(Autograph MS, draft portions of an essay on labor advertisements)
MS 4to 49:
"A Word About Tennyson"
(Autograph MS, printer's copy for Whitman's Tennyson essay in the Critic, Jan. 1, 1887)
Notes on Literature
Listed alphabetically by headings or first lines.
II-5B 101:
"[Miscellaneous Notes, Chiefly Literary] (in Frey)"
(Autograph MSS)
II-5B 102:
"[Notes on Literature] (in Frey)"
(Autograph MSS)
MS 4to 73:
"1855 - I have looked over Gerald Massey's Poems..."
(Autograph MS, notes on Massey)
MS 4to 99:
"But Though so loving, so singing, so dwelling on the past"
(Autograph MS, fragmentary remarks on a poet, probably Tennyson [in Frey])
MS 12mo 92:
"Diderot (Dennis Diderot)"
(Autograph MS, outline of Diderot's career)
MS 4to 74:
"Dr. Priestly (or Priestley)"
(Autograph MS, notes on Priestley)
MS 4to 72:
"Dryden 1631 to 1701"
(Autograph MS, impressions of Dryden)
MS 91:
"Edmund Spenser"
(Autograph MS, outline of Spencer's career)
MS 4to 86:
"Even now Jasmund, the people's poet,..."
(Autograph MS, notes on Jasmin, Pythagoras, Ossian, Zoroaster, and Greek history and literature)
MS 4to 76:
"Frances Wright"
(Autograph MS, notes on Wright's life)
MS 93:
"Frederick Schlegel 1772 - 1829"
(Autograph MS, note on the life and philosophy of Schlegel)
MS 4to 80:
"Goethe - from about 1750 to 1832"
(Autograph MS, notes on Goethe)
MS 4to 81:
"Goethe's Complete Works, last complete edition of his own revision"
(Autograph MS, notes on Goethe)
MS 4to 85:
"He is a precursor, in some sort of great differences"
(Autograph MS, notes on Swedenborg)
MS 90:
"His earliest printed plays 1597 Romeo and Juliet"
(Autograph MS, notes on the life and work of Shakespeare)
MS 94:
"The Iliad, The Bible (? & The Eschylean tragedies)"
(Autograph MS, notes on the Iliad and the Bible)
MS 79:
"J. J. Rousseau"
(Autograph MS, biographical sketch of Rousseau)
MS 4to 82:
"(Jean Paul) Friedrich Richter"
(Autograph MS, notes on the life and style of Richter)
MS 78:
"Lafontaine, born about 1621 lived 73 years - (1694)"
(Autograph MS, notes on Lafontaine's career)
MS 4to 77:
"Louis 14th born 1638 - died 1715 Corneille"
(Autograph MS, notes on the drama of Louis XIV's age)
MS 4to 84:
"Memory - ..."
(Autograph MS, notes on the life of Plutarch preceded by a quotation from Locke)
III-3 #5 c. 1:
"The Nibelungen"
(Autograph MS, notes on the Nibelungenlied, mounted on inside front board of Voices from the Press )
MS 12mo 89:
"Oliver Goldsmith"
(Autograph MS, biographical sketch of Goldsmith)
MS 117:
"Shakespeare and Walter Scott"
(Autograph MS, notes on writing)
MS 4to 83:
"Schiller - born 1759 - died 1806"
(Autograph MS, notes on Schiller and other German poets)
MS 4to 75:
"Shelley, born 1792 - died 1822 Keats died 1821"
(Autograph MS, notes on Shelley)
MS 4to 100:
"The Social Contract, Or, Principles of Right"
(Autograph MS, copy of extracts from a translation of Rousseau)
MS 71:
"The Song of Hiawatha by H. W. Longfellow"
(Autograph MS, impressions of
"Hiawatha"
)
MS 12mo 95:
"Torquato Tasso"
(Autograph MS, biographical sketch of Tasso)
Autobiographical Manuscripts
Listed alphabetically by headings.
MS 4to 132:
"24 Feb. 1891 In Notes if convenient"
(Autograph MS, paragraph on his health and publishing, request from Mrs. J. S. Harris for his autograph)
MS 4to 130:
"(Elan E. Kelsey)..."
(Autograph MS, notes on Eugene Kelsey, a soldier whom Whitman visited, and on Kelsey's family)
MS 123:
"How I get around at 60 and take notes (No. 1)"
(Autograph MS, copy for the first of six articles sent by Whitman to the Critic 1881-1882, published 1881 Jan. 29)
MS 113:
"In the Revolution,..."
(Autograph MS, notes on Whitman's grandfather Kell Van Velsor and his Grandmother Whitman during the Revolutionary War)
MS 120:
"Isaac Joseph Stephen Jesse (my grandfather)..."
(Autograph MSS, notes on various relatives, especially his grandmother Hannah Brush and great aunt Mrs. Sarah Mead)
MS 122:
"June 2, '74"
(Autograph MS, notes on Dr. Matthew Grier's opinion of Whitman's health)
II-7C 197:
"July 31st 1852 - Mr. Scofield owes W.W. ..."
(Autograph MS, memoranda written by Whitman when employed as a contractor)
MS 2o 128:
"Mother's family lived..."
(Autograph MS, notes on Whitman's mother's family, 1850)
MS 2o 133:
"My house and lot 328 Mickle street Camden New Jersey"
(Autograph MS, draft portion of Whitman's will)
MS 12mo 104:
"Nov. 23rd. 62 Portland av. Jesse Whitman..."
(Autograph MS, notes on uncles and his father as contractor)
MS 2o 131:
"Nov. 26 1880 R Worthington..."
(Autograph MS, notes on pirated edition of Leaves of Grass )
MS 12mo 104a:
"Progenitors"
(Autograph MS)
MS 121:
"Specimen Days"
(Autograph MS, notes on his parents)
MS 2o 129:
"Walter Whitman married..."
(Autograph MS, notes toward a family genealogy and portion of a diary of Whitman's trip from New Orleans)
Cf. Richard Maurice Bucke's Biography of Whitman Subseries.
Whitman on His Own Writings
Listed alphabetically by headings.
MS 12mo 116:
"[Three Autograph MSS]"
(Notes on nature, a comment on Specimen Days )
MS 4to 110:
"'81 'Leaves of Grass' finished"
(Autograph MS, diary writing on preparation of the 1881-1882 edition for publication)
MS 4to 109:
"All others have adhered to the principle..."
(Autograph MS, notes on democracy, poetry)
MS 108:
"And so I have put those completed poems..."
(Autograph MS, draft outline)
MS 12mo 127:
"Current Criticism"
(Autograph MS, notes on Burroughs's Notes on Walt Whitman )
MS 124:
"Feb. 25th '57 Dined with Hector Tyndale"
(Autograph MS, notes on criticisms of Leaves of Grass made by Whitman's friends)
MS 12mo 105:
"For criticism L of Grass"
(Autograph MS, notes on Leaves of Grass )
MS 12mo 106:
"For Dr. B's Criticism"
(Autograph MS, notes on Specimen Days )
MS 125:
"Friday April 24, '57. True vista before"
(Autograph MS, notes on education)
II-7C 198:
"Leading Characteristic to unite all sects,..."
(Autograph MS, notes on religious and social unity)
MS 4to 204:
"Make the Works"
(Autograph MS, notes on writing)
MS 12mo 107:
"May 13 to 26 '81 Down in the Country"
(Autograph MS, diary entry on preparation of the1881-1882 edition of Leaves of Grass for publication)
MS 126:
"My Poems, when complete, should be... "
(Autograph MS, notes on writing poetry)
MS 4to 134:
"No I do not choose to write a poem on a lady's sparrow, like Catullus"
(Autograph MS, notes on Leaves of Grass )
MS 114:
"No one of the Themes..."
(Autograph MS, draft portions of an essay on Leaves of Grass )
II-5B 135:
"Of William Blake & Walt Whitman"
(Autograph MS, comparison of Blake and himself)
II-7C 206:
"On the other side is the 'barbaric yawp'..."
(Autograph MS, draft portion of essay on the differences between Whitman and other poets)
MS 115 [display]:
"Other poets have formed..."
(Autograph MS, notes on writing poetry)
MS 4to 199:
"Put in a passage in some poem..."
(Autograph MS, notes on translation of his poetry)
MS 4to 136:
"Rules for Composition"
(Autograph MS, notes on writing)
MS 4to 137:
"Sept '81 Copy..."
(Autograph MS, notes on the publication of the 1881-1882 edition of Leaves of Grass )
MS 4to 205:
"Two suggestion points for letter"
(Autograph MS, two passages of self-criticism)
MS 12mo 116:
"3 Autograph MSS"
(Notes on nature, Specimen Days )
Miscellany
Listed alphabetically by headings.
MS 4to 192:
"The Black (The problem of the black)"
(Autograph MS)
MS 52:
"Book-learn'g is good..."
(Autograph MS, notes on education)
MS 4to 196:
"Caution"
(Autograph MS, notes on American literature)
MS 96:
"Egypt..."
(Autograph MS, notes on the "development of man" represented by the Egyptians, Hindus, Greeks, Romans, and Hebrews)
MS 97:
"Egyptian religion... Greek... Hebrew"
(Autograph MS, notes on ancient Egyptian and Greek religion and Judaism)
MS 98:
"The English Masses"
(Autograph MS, notes on English people)
MS 4to 34:
"His idea of God..."
(Autograph MS, notes on Emerson)
MS 2o 53:
"I know well enough that man grows up,..."
(Autograph MS, notes on "the nature of man")
MS 67:
"In metaphysical points,..."
(Autograph MS, notes on Romantic poetry, education)
MS 55:
"It is generally believed in Washington..."
(Autograph MS, draft portions of a letter on exchange of Civil War prisoners)
MS 4to 203:
"It were unworthy a live man to pray or complain"
(Autograph MS, notes on "whining")
MS 118:
"London - 1880 Then about drinking habits"
(Autograph MS, notes on Canada made during his trip there)
Trent South Wall:
"A main part of The greatness of a humanity"
(Autograph MS, notes on the "evolution of humanity")
MS 4to 87:
"Of Insanity"
(Autograph MS, notes on insanity)
II-5B 103:
"[Notes on Africa and Asia] (Frey's title)"
(Autograph MSS, notes on Asia and Africa taken from conversations with travelers and from geography and history books)
MS 68:
"[On Poetry] (Frey's heading)"
(Autograph MS, notes on poetry)
MS 51:
"Produce great persons..."
(Autograph MS)
MS 4to 111:
"The RR we go on (Sep 13 '79) from St Louis..."
(Autograph MS, notes on travels in the U.S. in 1848 and 1879)
MS 2o 46:
"Specimen Days Oct 31 '84 Presidential Election"
(Autograph MS, notes for an expanded edition of Leaves of Grass )
MS 4to 112:
"Sunday '79 - Took a slow walk..."
(Autograph MS, notes on New York City)
MS 4to 35:
"Theological inferences... "
(Autograph MS, notes on the Bible and its importance in poetry)
MS 119:
"Visit to NY '78 July 3..."
(Autograph MS, notes on view of New York from the top of the Tribune building)
MS 12mo 59:
"Wednesday 4th March..."
(Autograph MS, notes on the adjournment of Congress, 1863, Mar.)
MS 4to 88:
"The Whale"
(Autograph MS, notes on whales)
MS 4to 70:
"What are inextricable from the British poets are..."
(Autograph MS, notes on British poets)
Proofs Subseries, 1874-1891 and undated
Proofs of poems and articles published during Whitman's lifetime, some with autograph annotation by Whitman. The dates provided are taken both from the periodicals that carried corrected versions of the articles and poems in proof and also from autograph annotations to the proofs themselves. A mark of "P" next to a date indicates that the proof in question has been dated according to the periodical in which it appeared; a mark of "A," conversely, indicates that the proof has been dated by annotation. Where possible, the titles of the periodicals that published finalized versions of Whitman's articles and poems have been included. Listed alphabetically by title or periodical.
III-8C, Pr. 10:
"A Carol Closing Sixty Nine,"
undated
III-8B, Pr. 1:
"Colonel Ingersoll's Lecture, Liberty and Literature,"
1890 Oct. 21 (A)
Includes a clipping from the New York World from 1890 26 Oct. which reports a conversation between Whitman and Ingersoll.
III-8B, Pr. 2:
"The Dead Carlyle,"
Boston Literary World, 1881 Feb. 12 (P)
III-8B, Pr. 3:
"The Dead Tenor,"
The Critic, 1884 Nov. 4 (P)
III-8B, Pr. 4:
"Death of a Fireman,"
The New Republic, 1874 Nov. 14 (P)
III-8B, Pr. 5:
"Halcyon Days,"
undated
Proof copy with corrections, presumably by Whitman
III-8C, Pr. 6:
"Have We a National Literature?,"
North American Review, 1891 Mar. (P)
III-8B, Pr. 7:
"A Memorandum at a Venture,"
North American Review, 1882 June (A)
I-1:
November Boughs, undated Page proofs, pp. 5-45, preceded by a 4-page review clipped from the Chicago Daily News, 9 Feb. 1889.
I-1:
November Boughs, undated Page proofs, pp. 46-92
I-1:
November Boughs, undated Page proofs, pp. 93-140
III-8B, Pr. 9:
"Of That Blithe Throat of Thine,"
Harper's, 1885 Jan. (P)
Cf. Books and Periodicals Containing Contributions by Whitman Subseries.
III-8C, Pr. 10:
"Old Age's Lambent Peaks,"
undated
III-8B, Pr. 11:
"Patroling Barnegat,"
1880 June 3 (A)
III-8C, Pr. 12:
"Preface,"
undated
Preface to Three Tales, by W. D. O'Connor
III-8B, Pr. 13:
"Shakespeare for America,"
The Poet Lore, 1890 Sept. 15 (P)
III-8B, Pr. 14A:
"Summer Days in Canada"
, London Advertiser, 1890 June 22 (P)
III-8B, Pr. 14B:
"Sunday with the Insane"
, London Advertiser, 1890 June 22 (P)
III-8B, Pr. 15:
"Thanks in Old Age,"
undated
III-8C, Pr. 10:
"To Get the Final Lilt of Songs,"
undated
III-8B, Pr. 16:
"To the Sun-Set Breeze,"
undated
Cf. Correspondence From or By Whitman Subseries. A second copy of this proof is included in a letter from Whitman to J. D. Stoddart.
III-8B, Pr. 17:
"A Twilight Song,"
The Century, 1890 May (P)
III-8C, Pr. 18:
"Walt Whitman: The True Reminiscence of his Writings,"
The West Jersey Press, 1876 May 24 (P)
III-8C, Pr. 19:
"Walt Whitman's Actual American Position,"
The West Jersey Press, 1876 Jan. 26 (P) (2 copies)
III-8B, Pr. 20:
"With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!,"
Harper's, 1883 Nov. (A)
III-8B, Pr. 21:
"Your kind invitation to visit you and deliver a poem for the 33d Anniversary of founding Santa Fe...,"
undated
Poems Set to Music Subseries, 1901-1933
Published versions of certain of Whitman's poems that were set to music by different composers. Dates of copyright, rather than those of composition, are given below. Several of the titles in the Trent Collection are described in greater detail in Bella C. Landauer, Leaves of Music by Walt Whitman, call number Trent I-9A. Entries for those titles listed in Leaves of Music include Landauer's catalogue number. Listed alphabetically by composer.
Bacon, Ernst
I-9B:
"Eight Songs from Whitman,"
Letter press by Grabhorn, San Francisco, 1930
Bridge, Frank
I-9B:
"The Last Invocation,"
Winthrop Rogers, Ltd., London, 1919 (Landauer 19)
Campbell-Tipton, Louis
I-9B:
Op. 32, No. 1,
"Rhapsodie,"
G. Schirmer, New York, 1919 (Landauer 23)
"Two Songs to Words by Walt Whitman: I. 'Elegy,' II. 'At the Tomb,"
The Boston Music Company, Boston, 1918 (Landauer 27)
Dalmas, Philip
I-9B:
"As I watch'd the Ploughman Ploughing, and Other Chants of Freedom,,"
Novello and Company, London, 1901 (Landauer 39)
"As I watch'd...,"
including woodcuts by Wharton Esherick, London, 1901 (Landauer 40)
Gaul, Harvey B.
I-9A:
"I Hear America Singing,"
C. C. Birchard and Co., Boston 1925 (Landauer 58)
Kernochan, Marshall
I-9B:
"Out of the Rolling Ocean...,"
C. W. Thompson and Co., Boston, 1908 (Landauer 89)
"Out of the Rolling Ocean...,"
Galaxy Music Corporation, New York, 1933
"Two Songs: I. 'Song of Ylen,' [words by Richard Hovey], II. 'We Two Together,' [words by Whitman],"
G. Schirmer, New York, 1911
"We Two Together,"
Galaxy Music Corporation, New York, 1933
Phippen, Joshua
I-9A:
"O Captain My Captain,"
Essex Institute, Salem [Mass.], 1909
Powers, Ada Weigel
I-9B:
"The Last Invocation,"
Edward Schuberth and Co., New York, 1927 (Landauer 105a)
Scott, Cyril
I-9B:
"My Captain,"
Elkin and Co., Ltd., London, 1904
Spalding, Eva Ruth
I-9B:
"Trois Melodies pour Chant et Piano,"
Editions Maurice Senart, Paris, 1923 (Landauer 120)
Storey-Smith, Warren
I-9B:
"The Last Invocation,"
Bruce Humphries, Inc., Boston, 1934
Tomlins, W. L, editor
I-9A:
The Laurel Song-Book for Advanced Classes in Schools, Academies, Choral Societies, etc., C. C. Birchard and Company, Boston, 1901
Contains three songs with words by Whitman:
"O Captain! My Captain!,"
music by Edgar Stillman Kelley, pp. 26-32;
"Weave in, My Hardy Life,"
music by Frank van der Stucken, p. 33;
"We Two Together,"
music by W. W. Gilchrist, pp. 210-212.
Williams, R. Vaughan
I-9B:
"Three Poems by Walt Whitman,"
Oxford University Press, London, 1925
Includes
"Nocturne,"
"A Clear Midnight,"
and
"Joy, Shipmate, Joy!"
Whithorne, Emerson
I-9B:
"Invocation,"
Composers' Music Corp., New York, 1921 (Landauer 136)
Periodicals and Books Containing Contributions by Whitman Subseries, 1841-1924
Periodicals and books containing poems, essays, and letters by Whitman. Includes the first and only issue of the abolitionist newspaper Brooklyn Freeman, which Whitman edited. The copy in the Trent Collection is the only one known to be extant. Divided into two sections, the first of which lists periodicals in the Trent Collection to which Whitman contributed, and the second of which lists books. Listed alphabetically by periodical or book title.
Periodicals
Atlantic Monthly
W615 B16:
No. 30:
"Bardic Symbols,"
pp. 445-7, 1860 Apr.
W615A:
No. 558:
"An American Printer,"
pp. 460-70, 1904 Apr.
Brooklyn Freeman
III-6B:
Vol. I, no. 1, edited by Walt Whitman. Only extant copy known. 1848 Sept. 9
Brother Jonathan
III-11:
Vol. I, no. 9:
"Boz and Democracy,"
pp. 243-4, 1842 Feb. 26
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
W615 S:
Vol. XXXIX, no. 4:
"Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death,"
p. 553, 1890, Feb.
The Galaxy
IX G146 A:
Vol. IV, no. 5:
"A Card of Harvest for 1867,"
pp. 605-9, 1867 Sept.
Vol. XI:
"O Star of France!,"
p. 817, 1871 Jan.-July
Harper's New Monthly Magazine
W615 T:
Vol. LXX, no. 416:
"Of That Blithe Throat of Thine,"
p. 64, 1885 Jan.
Cf. Proofs Subseries .
Life Illustrated
I-7:
Vol. I, no. 13:
"Christmas at Grace,"
p. 97, 1856 Jan. 26
Vol. I, no. 24:
"America's Mightiest Inheritance,"
pp. 185-6, 1856 Apr. 2
Vol. II, no. 2:
"Voltaire,"
p. 9, 1856 May 10
Vol. II, no. 3:
"Fanny Fern's Opinion of Walt Whitman,"
pp. 20-1, 1856 May 17
Vol. II, no. 11:
"New York Dissected,"
part 1, p. 85, 1856 July 12
Vol. II, no. 12:
"New York Dissected,"
part 2, p. 93, 1856 July 19
Vol. II, no. 14:
"New York Dissected,"
part 3, pp. 108-9, 1856 Aug. 2
Vol. II, no. 15:
"New York Dissected,"
part 4, p. 116, 1856 Aug. 9
Vol. II, no. 16:
"New York Dissected,"
part 5, p. 125, 1856 Aug. 16
Vol. II, no. 17:
"New York Dissected,"
part 6, p. 133, 1856 Aug. 23
Vol. II, no. 22: Advertisement for second edition of Leaves of Grass, 1856 Sept. 27
Lippincott's Monthly Magazine
W615 M:
Vol. XXXIX, no. 229:
"My Book and I,"
pp. 121-7, 1887 Jan.
The Magazine of Poetry
III-4:
Vol. I:
"Selected Poems"
, pp. 15-23, 1889
The New World
I-7:
Extra Series, no. 34:
"Franklin Evans; or, the Inebriate. A Tale of the Times,"
pp. 1-31, 1842 Nov.
Transactions of the Buffalo Historical Society
III-4:
Vol. III:
"Red Jacket, (From Aloft),"
p. 105, 1885
The United States Magazine and Democratic Review
III-4:
NS Vol. IX, no. 38:
"Death in the School-Room. A Fact,"
pp. 177-81, 1841 Aug.
NS Vol. IX, no. 41:
"Wild Frank's Return,"
pp. 476-82, 1841 Nov.
NS Vol. IX, no. 42:
"Bervance: or, Father and Son,"
pp. 560-8, 1841 Dec.
NS Vol. X, no. 43:
"The Tomb-Blossoms,"
pp. 62-8, 1842 Jan.
NS Vol. X, no. 47:
"The Child-Ghost; A Story of the Last Loyalist,"
pp. 451-9, 1842 May
Vol. XVII, no. 89:
"A Dialogue,"
pp. 360-4, 1845 Nov.
Books
II-3:
Essays from The Critic, by John Burroughs, et al., 1882
By Whitman:
"Death of Carlyle,"
pp. 31-7;
"Death of Longfellow,"
pp. 41-5
III-4:
Et Cetera: A Collector's Scrap-Book, edited by Vincent Startett, no. 144 of 625 copies, 1924
By Whitman:
"Fragments,"
p. 193;
"Broadway 1861,"
p. 195
IV:
In Re Walt Whitman, edited by Horace L. Traubel, et al., 1893
(2 copies)
III-4:
The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman, edited by Thomas B. Harned, 1918
The Poets' Tribute to Garfield: A Collection of Many Memorial Poems,
1882
By Whitman:
"The Sobbing of the Bells,"
p. 71
III-11:
Voices from the Press: A Collection of Sketches, Essays, and Poems by Practical Printers, edited by James J. Brenton, 1850
By Whitman:
"The Tomb-Blossoms,"
pp. 27-33
Editions of Whitman's Writings Subseries, 1855-1944
Published versions of Whitman's poetry and prose. Entries below are listed alphabetically by title and chronologically within title headings. With the exception of Sotsukwa's Japanese translation of Leaves of Grass, which is cataloged under Leaves of Grass, all translations are listed alphabetically by title as it is spelled in the language of translation. Editions of Leaves of Grass listed chronologically.
II-1:
After All, Not to Create Only. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871.
(2 copies)
II-4:
An American Primer. Edited by Horace Traubel. Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1904.
II-2:
Autobiographia, or The Story of a Life. Prose selections. New York: Charles L. Webster and Co.; London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1892.
II-2, shelved as 1892a:
Autobiographia, or The Story of a Life. Edited by Arthur Stedman. Fiction, Fact and Fancy Series. New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., 1892.
III-4:
Calamus. Edited by Richard Maurice Bucke. Letters from Whitman to Peter Doyle, 1868-1880. Boston: Laurens Maynard, 1897.
(2 copies)
Cf. From or By Whitman Subseries.
II-2:
Calamus. Edited and translated by Leon Bazalgette (French trans.). Geneva: Editions du Sablier, 1919.
III-11:
A Child's Reminiscence. Edited by Thomas O. Mabbott and Rollo G. Silver. Seattle: University of Washington Book Store, 1930.
III-4:
Complete Poems and Prose of Walt Whitman, 1855-1888. Autograph copy. [No publisher identified in Frey]
II-2:
Complete Prose Works. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1892.
II-4:
The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman, "Camden Edition." Edited by Richard Maurice Bucke, Thomas B. Harned, and Horace L. Traubel; additional material contributed by Oscar Lovell Triggs. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1902. (10 vols.)
II-2:
Criticism, An Essay. Newark, N.J.: The Carteret Book Club, 1913.
II-1:
Democratic Vistas, and Other Papers. London: Walter Scott; Toronto: W. J. Gage and Co., 1888.
I-4:
Digte. Edited and translated by Johannes V. Jensen and Otto Gelsted (Danish trans.). Kobenhavn; Kristiania: Nordisk Forlag, 1919.
II-3:
Drum Taps. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1936.
I-4:
Feuilles d'herbe. Edited and translated by Leon Bazalgette (French trans.). Paris: Mercure de France, 1909. (2 vols)
Feuilles d'herbe. Paris: Mercure de France, 1922. (2 vols.)
Finf un zwanzig Lieder. Edited and translated by Dr. A. Eisen, in Hebrew characters. New York: Farlag Idish Leben, 1934.
II-2:
The Gathering of the Forces: Editorial, Essays, Literary and Dramatic Reviews, And Other Material written by Walt Whitman as Editor of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1846 and 1847. Edited by Cleveland Rogers and John Black. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1920. (2 vols.)
II-1:
Gems from Walt Whitman. Edited by Elizabeth Porter Gould. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1889.
II-4:
Good-Bye My Fancy. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891.
(2 copies)
Grashalme. Edited and translated into German by Karl Knortz and T. W. Rolleston. Zurich: Verlags-Magazin (J. Schabelitz), 1889.
III-11:
Grashalme. With illustrations by Willi Jaeckel. Berlin: Erich Reiss Verlag, 1920.
III-4:
The Half-Breed and Other Stories. Edited by Thomas Olive Mabbott, with woodcuts by Allen Lewis. New York: Columbia University Press, 1927.
II-4:
I Sit and Look Out. Edited by Emory Holloway and Vernolian Schwartz. New York: Columbia University Press, 1932.
II-2:
Lafayette in Brooklyn. Introduction by John Burroughs. New York: George D. Smith, 1905.
I-5B:
Leaves of Grass, first edition, first issue (2 copies). Brooklyn: [Walt Whitman], 1855.
I-5C:
Leaves of Grass, first edition, second issue (1 copy); first edition, English export (1 copy). Brooklyn: [Walt Whitman], 1855.
I-2:
Leaves of Grass, second edition. Brooklyn: [Walt Whitman], 1856.
I-2 or I-5A:
Leaves of Grass, third edition. Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860-1861.
Leaves of Grass, Worthington's pirated edition. Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860-1861.
(2 copies)
Leaves of Grass, fourth edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Whitman. New York, 1867.
Leaves of Grass, Electrotyped by Smith and McDougal, New York; published in Washington, D.C., 1871
Leaves of Grass, with Passage to India. Washington, D.C.: [No publisher identified in Frey], 1871.
Leaves of Grass, fifth edition. Washington, D.C.: [No publisher identified in Frey], 1872.
II-2:
Leaves of Grass, As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free, and Other Poems. Washington, D.C.: [No publisher identified in Frey], 1872.
I-2:
Leaves of Grass, sixth edition. Camden, N.J., 1876.
Leaves of Grass, sixth edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Whitman. Camden, N.J., 1876.
Leaves of Grass, seventh edition, third Boston edition. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1881-1882.
(2 copies)
I-3:
Leaves of Grass, seventh edition (reprint). Rees, Welsh and Co., 1882.
Leaves of Grass. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1884.
Leaves of Grass, seventh edition (reprint). Glasgow: Wilson and McCormick, 1884.
Leaves of Grass, with Sands at Seventy and A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads, eighth edition. [No publisher identified in Frey], 1889.
Leaves of Grass, including Sands at Seventy...1st Annex, Good-Bye my Fancy...2d Annex, A Backward Glance o'er Traveled Roads, and Portrait from Life, ninth edition, second issue. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891-1892.
Leaves of Grass. Boston: Small, Maynard and Cos., 1898.
Leaves of Grass. Philadelphia: David McKay, ca. 1900.
Leaves of Grass. New York: M. Kennerling, 1914.
I-5:
Leaves of Grass, facsimile of 1855 first edition. Portland, Me.: Thomas Bird Mosher and William Francis Gable, 1919.
I-4:
Leaves of Grass. Edited and translated by Tomita Sotsukwa (Japanese translation). Tokyo and Osaka: [No publisher identified in Frey], 1919-1920. (2 vols)
I-3:
Leaves of Grass. "Inclusive Edition." Edited by Emory Holloway. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1927.
III-11:
Leaves of Grass. Introduction by Carolyn Wells. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1929.
I-6A:
Leaves of Grass. New York: Random House, 1930.
I-3:
Leaves of Grass. New York: Aventine, 1931.
I-5B or III-11:
Leaves of Grass, facsimile of 1855 first edition. Introduction by Clifton Joseph Furness. New York: Columbia University Press for the Facsimile Text Society, 1939.
I-3:
Leaves of Grass. New York: Modern Library, 1940.
I-6 or III-11:
Leaves of Grass. Edited by Christopher Morley, with illustrations by Lewis C. Daniel. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., 1940.
III-11:
Leaves of Grass. Introduction by Mark Van Doren, photographs by Edward Weston. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1942.
I-6B:
Leaves of Grass. Illustrations by Boyd Hanna. Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1950.
I-6C:
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman: Preface to the Original Edition, 1855. Trubner and Co., 1881.
(3 copies)
I-2:
Leaves of Grass Imprints: American and European Criticisms on Leaves of Grass. Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860.
II-3:
Letters Written by Walt Whitman To His Mother, 1866-1872. Introduction by Rollo G. Silver. New York: Alfred F. Goldsmith, 1936.
II-1:
Memoranda, with Democratic Vistas. Washington, D.C.: [No publisher identified in Frey], 1871.
II-2:
Memoranda During the War. Camden, N.J.: [Walt Whitman], 1875-1876.
III-11:
Memories of President Lincoln. Portland, Me.: Thomas B. Mosher, 1912.
II-2:
Memories of President Lincoln and Other Lyrics of the War. Portland, Me.: Thomas B. Mosher, 1906.
I-4:
Natuurleven, first Dutch edition. Edited and translated into Dutch by Maurits Wagenvoort. Haarlem: Erven F. Bohn, 1898.
II-11:
New York Dissected. Edited by and introduction by Emory Holloway and Ralph Adimari. New York: Rufus Rockwell Wilson, Inc., 1936.
III-11:
Notes and Fragments. Edited by Richard Maurice Bucke. London, Ontario: A. Talbot and Co., 1899.
Trent V Pam Case:
"A Note about Whitman's Essay on Poe,"
by Rollo G. Silver. Reprinted from American Literature, vol. VII, no. 1, 1935 Mar.
II-4:
November Boughs. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1888.
(2 copies)
I-7:
O Captain! San Francisco: Privately printed, 1935.
Ode de la France. Translated by Leon Bazalgette. Paris: La Belle Edition, undated.
I-6A:
One Precious Leaf from the 1st Edition. New York: Bennett Book Studios, 1930.
II-3:
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking. New York: The June House, 1926.
Pictures. Edited by and introduction by Emory Holloway. New York: The June House, 1927; London: Faber and Gwyer, 1927.
II-2:
Poems by Walt Whitman. Edited by William Michael Rossetti. London: John Camden Hotten, 1868.
Pam 12mo #11, c.1:
Poems by Walt Whitman. The Masterpiece Library Series, no. XXVII. London: "Review of Reviews" Office, 1895.
II-2:
Sea Drift. New York: Hearst's International Library Company, 1919[?]
Selected Poems. Edited by Arthur Stedman. Fact, Fiction, and Fancy Series. New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., 1892.
Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Walt Whitman. Edited and introduced by Oscar Lovell Triggs. Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1898.
Trent V Pam Case:
"Seven Letters of Walt Whitman,"
by Rollo G. Silver. Reprinted from American Literature, vol. VII, no. 1, 1935 Mar.
I-7:
Salut au Monde! Illustrations by Vojtech Pressig. New York: Random House, 1930.
The Sleepers. Illustrations by Marcel Gaillard. Paris: Hand press by Francois Bernouard, undated.
III-11:
Song of the Broad-Axe. Philadelphia: The Centaur Press, 1924.
III-6B:
Song of the Open Road. Illustrations by Lewis C. Daniel, undated.
Uncut and unbound pressing of Daniel's edition, with an envelope of addenda.
II-1:
Specimen Days and collect, first edition, first issue. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1882-1883.
Specimen Days and collect, first edition, second issue. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1882-1883.
Specimen Days and collect, first British edition, second issue. Glasgow: Wilson and McCormick, 1883.
III-11:
There Was a Child Went Forth. Pictures by Zhenya Gay. New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1943.
Trent Pam Case:
"Thirty-One Letters of Walt Whitman,"
by Rollo G. Silver. Reprinted from American Literature, vol. VIII, no. 4, 1937 Jan.
II-3:
Two Prefaces. Introduction by Christopher Morley. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1926.
I-3:
Two Rivulets. Camden, N.J.: [Walt Whitman], 1876.
II-3:
The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman. Edited by Emory Holloway. New York: Peter Smith, 1932. (2 vols)
II-4:
Walt Whitman and the Civil War. Edited by Charles I. Glicksberg. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1933.
III-11:
Walt Whitman in Camden. Edited by and prefaced by Christopher Morley; photographs by Arnold Genthe. Camden, N.J.: The Haddon Craftsmen, 1938.
II-3:
Walt Whitman, Poet of American Democracy: Selections from His Poetry and Prose. Edited by and introduction by Samuel Sillen. New York: International Publishers, 1944.
Walt Whitman: Representative Selections, with Introduction, Bibliography, and Notes. Edited by Floyd Stovall. American Writers Series. New York: American Book Company, 1934.
II-4:
Walt Whitman's Diary in Canada. Edited by William Sloane Kennedy. Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1904.
IV:
Walt Whitman's Workshop. Edited by and introduction by Clifton Joseph Furness. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1928.
V Trent Pam Case:
"Whitman Interviews Himself,"
by Rollo G. Silver. Reprinted from American Literature, vol. X, no. 1, 1938 Mar.
I-9:
A Whitman Manuscript from the Albert M. Bender Collection of Mills College. Oakland, Calif.: The Bibliophile Society of Mills College, 1939.
II-2:
The Wound-Dresser. Edited by Richard Maurice Bucke. Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1898.
(2 copies)
Bibliographies and Catalogues Subseries, 1922-1943
Published bibliographies, lists, and descriptions of Whitman's work from the early years of Whitman scholarship and Whitman memorabilia collecting. Listed alphabetically by author or editor.
1. Trent Pam 12mo A425T, 2. Trent Pam 12mo #7:
Allen, Gay Wilson. Walt Whitman Bibliography, 1918-1934. Boston, 1935. (Bulletin of Bibliography Pamphlets, No. 30).
Trent IV A425T:
Allen, Gay Wilson. Twenty-Five Years of Walt Whitman Bibliography, 1918-1942. Boston, 1943. (Bulletin of Bibliography Pamphlets, No. 30).
Trent IV B922 MA:
Hanaburgh, E. F., editor. Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, First Editions and Portraits of Walt Whitman. New York, 1936. (American Art Association. Anderson Galleries. Catalogue Number 4251).
Trent IV K39 L:
Kern, Jerome. The Library of Jerome Kern. New York, 1929. (Anderson Galleries. Catalogue Numbers 2307 and 2311). (2 vols)
I-9A:
Landauer, Bella C. Leaves of Music by Walt Whitman. Privately printed at the Harbor Press, 1937, no. 18 of 60.
Trent IV N561 R:
Rare Books and Manuscripts Collected by the Late A. Edward Newton. New York, 1941. Brochure.
Rare Books, Original Drawings, Autograph Letters, and Manuscripts, Collected by the Late A. Edward Newton.. New York, 1941. (Parke-Bernet Galleries. Catalogue Numbers 276, 284, and 306). (3 vols)
Trent IV 12mo S538B:
Shay, Frank. The Bibliography of Walt Whitman. New York, 1920. No. 313 of 500.
Pam S766 L:
Sprague, Mrs. Frank Julian. A List of Manuscripts, Books, Portraits, Prints, Broadsides and Memorabilia in Commemoration of the One Hundred and Twentieth Anniversary of the Birth of Walt Whitman. Exhibited at the Library of Congress, 1939.
(2 copies)
Pam T197 W:
Tashjian, Nouvart, editor. Index to Early American Periodical Literature, 1728-1870. No. 3: Walt Whitman, 1819-1892. New York, 1941.
Trent IV 12mo W453 C:
Wells, Carolyn, and Goldsmith, Alfred F. A Concise Bibliography of the Works of Walt Whitman, with a Supplement of Fifty Books about Whitman. Boston and New York, 1922. No. 495 of 550 copies.
Clippings Series, 1845-1891 and undated (bulk 1845-1855)
This series consists of two groups: large collections of clippings (listed first), and clippings of individual articles. The former are listed by the heading given each collection in Frey and the contents are described briefly. The latter are listed alphabetically by article title and are further identified by periodical or anthology and date.
II-7A 182:
[Magazine and Newspaper Clippings] (Frey's heading)
(44 clippings)
Articles on a broad range of subjects, dating 1845-1871, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
MS 4to 186:
[Magazine Articles and Clippings] (Frey's heading)
(17 clippings)
Subjects dating 1849-1860, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
MS 4to 188:
[Newspaper and Magazine Items] (Frey's heading)
(29 clippings)
Subjects dating 1845-1891, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
MS 158:
[Notes and Clippings, Chiefly on Eastern Poetry] (Frey's heading)
(4 items)
Clippings with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
II-7B or III-6B 189:
[On the Wreck of the San Francisco] (Frey's heading)
(6 items)
Clippings from New York Tribune, 1854 Jan.-Feb., on the wreck of the steamer San Francisco, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
MS 151:
"Anacreon"
pp. 236-42 from Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
MS 177:
"Arnold's Lectures on Modern History"
From the United States Democratic Review, vol. XVII (Oct. 1845), pp. 247-56, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
MS 178:
"Chaucer"
From the North British Review, American edition, vol. X (Feb. 1849), pp. 157-78, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
MS 179:
"Christopher Under Canvass"
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. LXV (June 1849), pp. 763-6, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
MS 4to 185:
"Early Roman History"
From Western Review, vol. I (Apr. 1846), pp. 211-74, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
MS 180:
"Egotism. As Manifested in the Works and Lives of Great and Small Men"
From Graham's Magazine, vol. XXVII (Mar. 1845), pp.97-103, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
II-7B 190:
"Excerpts and Strike and Tramp question"
Autograph MS fragments (5 items) and newspaper clippings (48 items); the collection "deals with the tramp and strike problems in the United States" (Frey)
MS 152:
"The French Moralists"
From American Whig Review, vol. II (Nov. 1845), pp. 497- 504, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
MS 153:
"Hymn of Callimachus, "
"Miss Barrett's Poems"
From American Whig Review, vol. I (Jan. 1845), pp.35-48
MS 12mo 154:
"Hymn of Heavenly Beauty"
From Half-Hours with the Best Authors, vol. 1, pp. 207-16, with autograph MS annotation by Whitman
MS 12mo 155:
"John Bunyan"
(2 items)
Clippings, the second from Half-Hours with the Best Authors, vol. I, pp. 527-34, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
MS 181:
"Literature of the Middle Ages"
From Westminster Review, American edition, vol. LI, (July 1849), pp. 181-92, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
MS 156:
"Modern Poetry and Poets"
From Edinburgh Review, American edition, vol. XC, (Oct. 1849), pp. 203-28
MS 157:
"New English Poets"
From Putnam's Monthly, vol. VI (Sept. 1855), pp. 225-38, with autograph MS annotation by Whitman
MS 4to 187:
"One Thousand Historical Events, with the Dates"
From Memoria Technica, pp. 17-40, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
MS 159:
"Phrenology: A Socratic Dialogue"
From American Whig Review vol. III (Jan. 1846), pp. 31-46, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
MS 160:
"The Poetry of Sacred and Legendary Art"
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. LXV (Feb. 1849), pp. 175- 190, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
MS 161:
"Political Poets: Waller and Marvell"
From American Whig Review, vol. III (May 1851), pp. 411- 418, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
MS 162:
"Pope"
From North British Review, MS 162 American edition, vol. IX (Aug. 1848), pp. 163-82, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
MS 163:
"The Prelude"
From American Whig Review, N. S. vol. VII (May 1851), pp. 447-8; pp. 455-8
MS 4to 183:
"Progress: Its Law and Cause"
From Westminster Review, American edition, vol. LXVII (Apr. 1857), pp. 243-66; 277-88, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
MS 164:
"The Prose Writers of America"
;
"New Poetry in New-England"
(2 items)
Contiguous articles, from United States Democratic Review, vol. XX (May 1847), pp. 383-98, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
MS 165:
"Provencal and Scandinavian Poetry"
From Edinburgh Review, American edition, vol. LXXXVIII (July 1848), pp. 1-16 with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
MS 166:
"Recollections of Poets Laureate. Wordsworth: Tennyson"
From American Whig Review, N. S. vol. IX (June 1852), pp. 515-24, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
MS 167:
"R. M. Milnes' Life of Keats"
From North British Review, American edition, vol. X (Nov. 1848), pp. 39-52, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
MS 4to 184:
"The Romantic in Literature and Art"
From Sartain's Magazine, vol. V (Nov. 1849), pp. 297- 304, with autograph MS annotation by Whitman
MS 168:
"Scottish Poetry...Robert Burns"
Two clippings from an unidentified anthology, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
MS 169:
"Shakespeare's Sonnets"
From Sartain's Magazine, vol. V (Sept. and Oct. 1849), pp. 153-8; pp. 217-24
:
"The Standard Civilized Head"
From Life Illustrated N. S. vol. MS 159 II (July 5, 1856), p. 74
:
"Taylor's Eve of the Conquest"
From Edinburgh Review, MS 170 American edition, vol. LXXXIX (Apr. 1849), pp. 183-96, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
MS 171:
"Tennyson's Poems"
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, LXV (Apr. 1849), pp. 453-68, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
MS 172:
"Tennyson's Poems—The Princess"
From North British Review, American edition, vol. IX (May 1848), pp. 25-40, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
MS 173:
"Thoughts on Reading"
From American Whig Review, vol. I (May 1845), pp. 483-96, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
MS 174:
"Translators of Homer"
From American Whig Review, vol. IV (Oct. 1846), pp. 351-72, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
MS 175:
"The Vanity and the Glory of Literature"
From Edinburgh Review, American edition, vol. LXXXIX (Apr. 1849), pp. 149-68, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
MS 176:
"Voltaire"
From Life Illustrated, N. S. vol. II (May 10, 1856), p. 9, with autograph MS annotations by Whitman
Material About or Relating to Whitman Series, 1842-1947 and undated (bulk post-1880)
Contains the manuscript of Richard Maurice Bucke's biography of Whitman, manuscript versions of essays, lectures, and another book on Whitman's life and poetry, and some personal manuscript material of Whitman's, including copies of his will drawn up by Bucke. Also includes a number of significant scholarly books and articles published toward the end of Whitman's career and for more than fifty years following his death.
Richard Maurice Bucke's Biography of Whitman Subseries, ca. 1880-1883
Consists of draft manuscript material by Bucke, William O'Connor, and Whitman that was later revised and used in Bucke's Walt Whitman. Also contains large portions of Bucke's revised manuscript.
Draft Manuscripts
II-6A, 138:
Bucke, Richard Maurice - Autograph MS draft of Whitman biography (complete), approx. 415 pp.
II-6A, 138:
O'Connor, William D - MS copy in a professional copyist's hand of O'Connor's The Good Gray Poet. Included with Bucke's draft, listed above.
MS 4to 139:
Whitman, Walt - Autograph MS draft of passage appearing in revised form on p. 136 of Bucke's biography. One page.
Revised Manuscripts
MS 4to 140:
Introduction (Autograph MS by Whitman, outline of his life that informs Bucke's introduction, 6 pp.)
II-6B, 141:
Part I, Chapter 2:
"The Poet in 1880"
(Copyist's hand, autograph revisions by Whitman. Complete copy of the chapter, 15 pp.)
II-6B, 142:
Part I, Chapter 3:
"His Conversation"
(Copyist's hand, autograph revisions by Whitman. Partial copy of the chapter, 15 pp.)
II-6B, 142a:
Part I, Chapter 3:
"He several times spoke of President Lincoln"
(Autograph MS by Whitman, one page.)
Cf. Portraits of Others Subseries (Saunders 75).
II-6B, 143:
Appendix to Part I (Chiefly copyist's hand, 143 pp. Includes W. D. O'Connor's introductory letter to The Good Gray Poet and portions of The Good Gray Poet with revisions by Walt Whitman.)
II-6B, 144:
Part II, Chapter 1:
"History of Leaves of Grass"
(Chiefly copyist's hand, 28 pp. Also in the had of William S. Kennedy and Richard M. Bucks, with revisions by Walt Whitman.)
III-6B, 144a:
Part II, Chapter 3:
"Analysis of Poems, Continued"
(Autograph MS by Whitman, one page. Appearing in revised form in Bucke's biography, pp. 189-90.)
Other Manuscripts About Whitman Subseries, 1872-1938 and undated
Manuscript versions of drafts and notes on Whitman's career. Includes a typescript of Newton Arvin's book Whitman (1938). Listed alphabetically by author.
Anonymous
II-6B, 147:
"The College Farewell to Dr. Bucke and J. W. Wallace."
MS report of a meeting of "The College," Bolton, Lancs., 24 Aug. 1891.
Allen, Gay Wilson
III-7A:
Walt Whitman Abroad. Printer's copy of TS of Allen's book, 1955
Arvin, Newton
III8A:
Partial draft of Whitman, undated
III-7B:
Whitman. TS of Arvin's book.
Cf. Books and Pamphlets About or Relating to Whitman Subseries for printed text.
Bucke, Richard Maurice
II-6B, 145:
"The Genesis of Walt Whitman."
Autograph MS, 13 pp., one page typed.
MS 4to 146:
"Walt Whitman: Man and Poet."
Autograph MS, 15 pp.
MS 4to 150:
Wills of Walt Whitman. Autograph copies by Bucke of Whitman's wills made in 1872, 1880, 1882, 7pp.
Bucke, Richard Maurice, Elizabeth Keller, Daniel Longaker, and Alexander McAlister
II-7A, 149:
"Notes W. W. Last Sickness,"
162 pp.
Fowler, L. N.
MS 4to 148:
"Phrenological Description of W. Whitman, Age 29 Occupation Printer, by L.N. Fowler, N. York July 16-1849."
. Autograph MS, with the list and numbers describing Whitman's head in phrenological terms, 5 pp.
Frey, Ellen
III-9A:
Manuscript of Catalogue of the Whitman Collection, sections I-III
III-9B:
Manuscript of Catalogue of the Whitman Collection, sections IV-V
Proofs of Catalogue of the Whitman Collection, undated
III-9C:
"Mss about Walt Whitman--Descriptions,"
undated
"Whitman's Annotations on Magazine Excerpts, Clippings, Etc.,"
undated
Periodicals Containing Contributions About Whitman Subseries, 1868-1943 (bulk 1880-1895)
Published scholarly articles on Whitman's life and poetry. The first two items listed below contain articles by various authors; the next thirteen articles are all unsigned articles and are grouped under "Anonymous," then listed alphabetically by periodical title. Others are listed alphabetically by author.
Multiple authors
IV, Trent Pam Case:
Walt Whitman Fellowship Papers,
1894 Sept.-1898 May
Vol. 1 (first year), nos. 7, 8, 10, 11, 13
Vol. 2 (second year), nos. 2-4, 6, 7
Vol. 3 (third year), no. 4
Vol. 4 (fourth year), nos. 1-3, 7-9
V, Trent Pam Case:
The Sunset of Bon Echo
Vol. 1, no. 6: 1920, Apr.-May
Issue devoted to Whitman and Horace Traubel.
Anonymous
V, Trent Pam Case:
The Academia
No. 12: 1868 Mar. 21; Review of Poems by Walt Whitman, edited by William Michael Rossetti, pp. 277-9.
Trent Pam Case:
The Academy
No. 1005: 1891 Aug. 8; Note on Bucke's publication of Whitman's Good-Bye My Fancy, p. 114.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art
No. 236: 1868 July 4; Review of Poems by Walt Whitman, edited by William Michael Rossetti, pp. 420-5.
The Christian Leader
Vol. XI, no. 527: 1892 Feb. 4;
"The Good Grey Poet,"
p. 110.
The Literary World
N.S. Vol. XLV, no. 1181: 1892 June 17; Review of Walt Whitman, by William Clarke, pp. 577-8.
The Mace, A Weekly Record of the Glasgow Parliamentary Debating Association
Vol. IV, no. 24: 1883 Mar. 19; Review of Poems by Walt Whitman, edited by William Michael Rossetti, pp. 420-5.
Vol. III, no. 27: 1882 Mar. 21; Review of Leaves of Grass, (London: David Bogue, 1882), pp. 2-3.
Vol. IV, no. 10: 1882 Nov. 27; Review of Specimen Days and Collect, pp. 2-3.
Papers for the Times
No. 22: 1886, Apr.;
"Whitman for the Drawing Room,"
pp. 181-5.
The Radical Review
No. 94: 1892 Apr. 16;
"A Whitman Enthusiast,"
p. 44.
The Saturday Review
Vol. LXVII, no. 1740: 1889 Mar. 2; Review of November Boughs, pp. 260-1.
The Scottish Review
Vol. II, no. 4: 1883, Sept.; Reviews of Leaves of Grass (Glasgow, 1883); Specimen Days and Collect; Poems of Walt Whitman, edited by William Michael Rossetti; Notes on Walt Whitman as a Poet and Person, by John Burroughs; and Walt Whitman, by Richard Maurice Bucke; pp. 281-300.
Temple Bar
Vol. XCIX, no. 395: 1893, Oct.;
"Walt Whitman,"
pp. 252-9.
Pam A132 W:
Abbott, Leonard D.
"Walt Whitman and His Influence In American Poetry."
The Poetry Review, Vol. 1, no. 10, 1912 Oct.:pp. 473-5.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Baxter, Sylvester.
"Walt Whitman in Boston."
New England Magazine N.S. Vol. VI, no. 6, 1892 Aug.: pp. 714-21.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Black, George D.
"Walt Whitman."
New England Magazine, N.S. Vol. VI, no.6, 1892 Aug.: pp. 710-14.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Bradley, Sculley.
"Walt Whitman: Poet of the Present War."
The General Magazine and Historical Chronicle, Vol. XLV, no. 1, 1942 Oct.: pp. 7-14.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Buchanan, Robert.
"Socrates in Camden with a Look Round."
The Academy, No. 693, 1885 Aug. 25: pp. 102-3.
III-11:
Bucke, Richard M.
"At the Graveside of Walt Whitman: Harleigh, Camden, New Jersey, Mar. 30th."
The Conservator, Supplement, 1892 Apr.: pp. 1-4.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Bunsho, Teraoka, editor. Blake and Whitman (Japanese language serial). Vol. 1, no. 12, 1932 Dec.
__________. Blake and Whitman. Vol. 2, nos. 1-6, 12: 1933 Jan.-June, Dec.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Carpenter, Edward. Review of November Boughs.The Scottish Art Review, Vol. 1, no. 11, 1889 Apr.: pp. 334-5.
__________.
"Towards Democracy,"
The Labour Project, Vol. III, no. 29, 1894 May: pp. 49-51.
__________.
"A Visit to Walt Whitman in 1877. "
The Progressive Review, Vol. 1, no. 5, 1897 Feb.: pp. 407-17.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Cestre, Charles.
"Walt Whitman, poete de la Nature"
(French language article). La Vie des Peuples, Vol. 1, no. 2, 1920 June 20: pp. 291-308.
III-4:
Chainey, George.
"Keep Off the Grass."
This World, Vol. III, no. 24, 1882 June 17: pp. 3-9.
__________.
"A New Joshua."
"Keep Off the Grass,"
Vol. III, no. 26, 1882 July 1: pp. 2-4.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Clarke, Helen A.
"The Relations of music to Poetry in American Poets."
Music, Vol. VI, no.2, 1894 June: pp. 163-74; and no. 3 July: pp. 282-8.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Clive, Arthur.
"Walt Whitman: The Poet of Joy."
The Gentleman's Magazine, N.S. Vol. XV, no. 91, 1875 Dec.: pp. 704-16.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Crockett, S. R.
"Literacy Vignettes, I. Walt Whitman, Compositor, Hospital Nurse, and Comrade."
The Christian Leader, Vol. XII, no. 599, 1892 Feb. 4.: pp. 590-1.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Dent, John C.
"American and her Literature."
Temple Bar, Vol. XXXVII, no. 147, 1873 Feb.: pp. 396-406.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Dowden, Edward. Review of Leaves of Grass,Passage To India, and Democratic Vistas,The Westminster Review N.S., Vol. XL, no. 1, 1871 Jul.: pp. 33-68.
__________. Review of Specimen Days and Collect.The Academy, No. 550, 1882 Nov. 18: pp. 357-9.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Gilchrist, Anne.
"A Woman's Estimate of Walt Whitman."
The Radical, Vol. VII, no. 5, 1870 May: pp. 345-59.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Gohdes, Clarence.
"Walt Whitman and the Newspapers of His Day."
Library Notes, Vol. 1, no. 2: 1936 Oct.: pp. 3-4.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Gosse, Edmund.
"A Note on Walt Whitman."
The New Review,Vol. X, no. 59, 1894 Apr.: pp. 447-57.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Grebanier, Francis (pseudonym Francis Winwar).
"Walt Whitman's 'Dark Lady'."
The University Review, Vol. IX, no. 3, 1943 spring: pp. 191-6.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Grebanier, Francis and Floyd Stovall.
"A Collector Looks at Walt Whitman."
The Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. III, no. 2, 1942 Feb.: comments on Edward Naumburg Jr.'s pp. 66-9.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Hall, George.
"Walt Whitman."
The Monthly Magazine,1888 Dec.: pp. 4-5.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Harte, Walter Blackburn.
"Walt Whitman's Democracy."
New England Magazine, N.S. Vol. VI, no. 6, 1892 Aug.: pp. 721-4.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Haweis, H. R.
"A Visit to Walt Whitman."
The Pall Mall Budget Vol. XXXIV, no. 903, 1886 Jan. 14: p. 12.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Hill, S. MacCalmont. Review of Seas and Lands by Sir Edwin Arnold. The Academy, No. 1019, 1891 Nov. 14: pp. 425-6.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Image, Selwyn. November Boughs.The Century Guild Hobby Horse, No. 13, 1889 Jan.: Review of pp. 37-9.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Lewin, Walter. Review of November Boughs.The Academy, No. 1005, 1889 Feb. 23: p. 127.
__________.
"Leaves of Grass."
Murray's Magazine, Vol. II, no. 9, 1887 Sept.: pp. 327-9.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Macaulay, G. C.
"Walt Whitman."
The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XII, no. 70, 1882 Dec.: pp. 903-18.
V, Trent Pam Case:
McCusker, Honor.
"Leaves of Grass: First Editions and Manuscripts in the Whitman Collection."
More Books, Vol. XIII, no. 5, 1938 May: p. 179-92.
See also a note on an exhibition of Whitman material, p. 199.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Mercer, Edmund.
"Walt Whitman."
Great Thoughts, N.S. Vol. V, nos. 125 and 126, 1890 Nov. 22 and 29: no. 125 pp. 336-40; no. 126 p. 351.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Molloy, Fitzgerald.
"Leaders of Modern Thought. No. XXVII - Walt Whitman."
Modern Thought, Vol. IV, no. 9, 1882 Sept.: pp. 319-26.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Nathan, Hans.
"Walt Whitman and the Marine Band."
More Books, Vol. XVIII, no. 2, 1943 Feb.: pp. 47-56.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Naumburg, Edward, Jr.
"A Collector Looks at Walt Whitman."
The Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. III, no. 1, 1941 Feb.: pp. 1-18.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Noel, Roden.
"A Study of Walt Whitman, The Poet of Modern Democracy."
The Dark Blue, Vol. II, nos. 8 and 9, 1871 Oct. and Nov.: no. 8 pp. 241-53; no. 9 pp. 336-49.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Parker, Gilbert.
"Walt Whitman."
Literary Opinion, Vol. II, no. 1, 1892 Apr.: pp. 1-6.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Pennell, Elizabeth Robins.
"Reminiscences of Walt Whitman."
Literary Opinion, Vol. II, no. 2, 1892 May: pp. 57-60.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Rhys, Ernest.
"The Portraits of Walt Whitman."
The Scottish Art Review, Vol. II, no. 13, 1889 June: pp. 17-24.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Riethmueller, Richard.
"Walt Whitman and the Germans."
German American Annals, N.S. Vol. IV, nos. 1-3, 1906 Jan.-Mar.: no. 1 pp. 3-15; no. 2 pp. 35-49; no. 3 pp. 78-92.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Roose, Pauline W.
"A Child-Poet: Walt Whitman."
The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. CCLXXII, no. 1937, 1892 May: pp. 464-80.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Rowlandson, H. Review of Towards Democracy by Edward Carpenter. The Dublin University Review, Vol. II, no. 4, 1886 Apr.: , pp. 319-28.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Saintsbury, George. Review of Leaves of Grass.The Academy, No. 127, 1874 Oct. 10: pp. 398-400.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Salmon, Edward.
"Walt Whitman."
London Society, Vol. LXII, no. 372, 1892 Dec.: pp. 588-600.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Stovall, Floyd and Francis Grebanier (pseudonym Francis Winwar). Comments on Edward Naumburg Jr.'s
"A Collector Looks at Walt Whitman."
The Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. III, no. 2, 1942 Feb.: pp. 66-9.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Titherington, Richard.
"The Good Gray Poet."
Munsey's Magazine, Vol. XIV, no. 2, 1895 Nov.: pp. 138-46.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Trevor, John.
"Walt Whitman."
The Labour Prophet, Vol. IV, no. 38, 1895 Feb.: pp. 17-8.
III-11:
Wells, Carolyn.
"On Collecting Whitman."
The Colophon, Vol. I, no. 4, New York: 1940: pp. 47-54.
V, Trent Pam Case:
White, William.
"Walt Whitman on Osler: 'He Is a Great Man'."
Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. XV, no. 1, 1944 Jan.: pp. 79-90.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Williams, Stanley T.
"The Adrian Van Sinderen Collection of Walt Whitman."
The Yale University Library Gazette, Vol. XV, no. 3, 1941 Jan.: pp. 49-53.
V, Trent Pam Case:
Winwar, Francis (See Grebanier, Francis)
Books And Pamphlets About Or Relating To Whitman Subseries, 1842-1947 (bulk 1880-1930).
Published scholarly books and shorter monographs on Whitman's life and poetry. Listed alphabetically by author.
IV:
Anon. The Obliviad: A Satire. New York and London, 1879.
IV:
Arvin, Newton. Whitman. New York, 1938.
IV:
Auslander, Joseph. Five American Immortals, Worcester (Mass.), 1940.
IV:
Bailey, John. Walt Whitman. English Men of Letters Series. London, 1926.
IV:
Barrus, Clara. Whitman and Burroughs, Comrades. Boston and New York, 1931.
IV:
Barton, William E. Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman. Indianapolis, 1928.
IV:
Bazalgette, Leon. Walt Whitman: L'Homme et son Oeuvre. Paris, 1908.
_________. Walt Whitman: The Man and His Work. Translated into English by Ellen FitzGerald. Garden City, N.Y., 1920.
I-7:
Beerbohm, Max. The Poets' Corner. London, 1904.
IV:
Binns, Henry Bryan. A Life of Walt Whitman. London, 1905.
IV:
Bloor, Ella Reeve. We Are Many: An Autobiography. Introduction by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn New York, 1940.
IV:
Born, Helena. Whitman's Ideal Democracy and Other Writings. Edited by Helen Tufts. Boston, 1902.
Trent Pam Case:
Boughton, Willis.
"Walt Whitman."
Reprinted from The Arena. vol. VI, 1882 Sept., pp. 471-80.
IV:
Boyd, Ernest. Literary Blasphemies. New York and London, 1927.
III-11:
Bucke, Richard Maurice, editor. Comic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind. Philadelphia, 1901.
IV:
_________. Man's Moral Nature: An Essay. New York and Toronto, 1879.
_________. Walt Whitman. Philadelphia, 1883.
_________. Walt Whitman, with English Critics on Walt Whitman. Edited by Edward Dowden. Glasgow, 1884.
IV:
Burroughs, John. Accepting the Universe. Boston and New York, 1920.
IV:
__________. The Heart of Burroughs's Journals. Edited by Clara Barrus. Boston and New York, 1928.
IV:
__________. Notes on Walt Whitman As Poet and Person. Second edition. New York, 1871.
IV:
__________. Whitman: A Study. Boston and New York, 1896.
IV:
Canby, Henry Seidel. Walt Whitman, an American: A Study in Biography. Boston, 1943.
IV:
Carpenter, Edward. Days with Walt Whitman. London, 1906.
IV:
Carpenter, George Rice. Walt Whitman. English Men of Letters Series. New York, 1909.
IV:
Cheney, John Vance. That Dome in Air: Thoughts on Poetry and the Poets. Chicago, 1895.
IV:
Clare, Maurice. A Day with Walt Whitman. Days with the Poets Series. New York, n. d.
IV:
Clarke, William. Walt Whitman. The Dilettante Library Series London and New York, 1892.
IV:
Cotterill, H. B., and T. W. Rolleston. Über Wordsworth und Walt Whitman. Dresden, 1883.
IV:
Coyne, James H. Richard Maurice Bucke: A Sketch. Reprinted from Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 1906. Toronto, 1906.
IV:
Deutsch, Babette. Walt Whitman: Builder for America. New York, 1941.
IV:
Donaldson, Thomas. Walt Whitman: The Man. New York, 1896.
IV:
Elliot, Charles N. Walt Whitman as Man, Poet and Friend. Boston, 1915.
(2 copies)
IV:
Erskine, John. The Start of the Road. New York, 1938.
IV:
Fausset, Hugh I'Anson. Walt Whitman: Poet of Democracy. New Haven, 1942.
IV:
Figuiere, Eugene. Walt Whitman (Poete Americain). Les Anthologies du Xxe siecle Series. Paris, 1928.
IV:
Fowler, O. S. Fowler's Practical Phrenology. Bound with Phrenology Proved, Illustrated, and Applied. New York, 1849.
__________. Phrenology and Physiology Explained and Applied to Matrimony . . . to the Cultivation of Memory . . . to Temperance; and to the Evils of Tight-Lacing. New York, 1842.
__________, L. N. Fowler, and Samuel Kirkham. Phrenology Proved, Illustrated, and Applied. Bound with Fowler's Practical Phrenology. New York, 1849.
IV:
Garcia Lorca, Federico. Poems. Translated by Stephen Spender and J. L. Gli, edited by and introduction by R. M. Nadal. New York and Toronto, 1939.
IV:
Garland, Hamlin. Roadside Meetings. New York, 1930.
IV:
Gilchrist, Herbert Harlakenden, editor. Introduction by William Michael Rossetti. Anne Gilchrist: Her Life and Writings. Second edition. London, 1887.
IV:
Gould, Elizabeth Porter. Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman. Philadelphia, 1900.
IV:
Grebanier, Francis, writing as Francis Winwar. American Giant: Walt Whitman and His Times. New York and London, 1941.
IV:
Hartley, L. Conrad. The Spirit of Walt Whitman. Manchester (Lancs.), 1908.
Pam 12mo H333 C:
Hartmann, C. Sadakichi. Conversations with Walt Whitman. New York, 1895.
Pam 12mo H436 U:
Heartman, Charles F. The Untimeliness of the Walt Whitman Exhibition at the New York Public Library. New York, 1925.
IV:
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. Contemporaries. Boston and New York, 1899.
IV:
Holloway, Emory. Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative. New York and London, 1926.
Pam 12mo H845 W:
Hubbard, Elbert. Walt Whitman. Little Journeys to the Homes of American Authors Series, vol. 11, no. 6. New York and London, 1896.
IV:
Huneker, James Gibbons. Ivory Apes and Peacocks. New York, 1915.
__________. Letters of James Gibbons Huneker. Edited by Josephine Huneker. New York, 1922.
IV:
Ingersoll, Robert G. House of Death: Being Funeral Orations and Addresses. London, 1897.
__________. Liberty in Literature: Testimonial to Walt Whitman. New York, 1890.
IV:
Irwin, Mabel McCoy. Whitman: The Poet-Liberator of Woman. New York, 1905.
IV:
Johnson, Lorenzo D. Memoria Technica: or, The Art of Abbreviating Those Studies Which Give the Greatest Labor to the Memory. Second edition. Boston, 1847.
IV:
Johnston, John. Diary Notes of a Visit to Walt Whitman and Some of His Friends, in 1890. Manchester and London, 1898.
__________. Notes of a Visit to Walt Whitman, Etc., in July, 1890. Bolton, 1890.
__________ and J. W. Wallace. Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890-1891. London, 1917.
IV:
Karsner, David. Horace Traubel: His Life and Work. New York, 1919.
IV:
"Katinka." Abbie Nott and Other Knots. Philadelphia, 1856.
IV:
Keller, Elizabeth Leavitt. Walt Whitman in Mickle Street. New York, 1921.
IV:
Kennedy, William Sloane. The Fight of a Book for the World: A Companion Volume to Leaves of Grass. Winter Park (Fla.), 1926.
__________. Reminiscences of Walt Whitman with Extracts from his Letters and Remarks on his Writings. London, 1896.
(2 copies)
IV:
Knortz, Karl. Walt Whitman. New York, 1886.
III-11:
Kouwenhoven, John A. Adventures of America, 1857- 1900: A Pictorial Record from Harper's Weekly. New York and London, 1938.
IV:
Legler, Henry Eduard. Walt Whitman: Yesterday and Today. Chicago, 1916.
IV:
Lowell, Amy. Poetry and Poets. Boston and New York, 1930.
IV:
Masters, Edgar Lee. Whitman. New York, 1937.
IV:
Mathews, Godfrey W. Walt Whitman. Liverpool, 1921.
IV:
Matthiessen, F. O. American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman. London, Toronto, and New York, 1941.
IV:
Maynard, Mila Tupper. Walt Whitman: The Poet of the Wider Selfhood. Chicago, 1903.
IV:
Mercer, Dorothy Frederica. "Leaves of Grass and the Bhagavad Gita: A Comparative Study." Typescript. Ph.D. dissertation. University of California, 1933.
IV:
Mordell, Albert. Notorious Literary Attacks. New York, 1926.
IV:
Mumford, Lewis. The Golden Day: A Study in American Experience and Culture. New York, 1926.
IV:
Newton, A. Edward. A Magnificent Farce, and Other Diversions of a Book-Collector. Boston, 1921.
__________. A Magnificent Farce . . . Large paper edition. Boston, 1921.
IV:
Norton, Charles Eliot. A Leaf of Grass from Shady Hill. Cambridge (Mass.), 1928.
IV:
Noyes, Carleton. An Approach to Walt Whitman. Boston and New York, 1910.
IV O18 H :
O'Connor, William D. Harrington: A Story of True Love. Boston, 1860.
IV:
Overton, Grant. The Answerer. New York, 1921.
IV:
Parrington, Vernon Louis. Main Currents in American Thought: An Interpretation of American Literature from the Beginnings to 1920. New York, 1930
IV:
Perry, Bliss. Walt Whitman: His Life and Work. Boston and New York, 1906.
IV:
Platt, Isaac Hull. Walt Whitman. Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans Series. Boston, 1907.
IV:
Pond, Major J. B. Eccentricities of Genius: Memories of Famous Men and Women of the Platform and Stage. New York, 1900.
IV:
Powys, John Cowper. Visions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions. New York and London, 1915.
Pam 4to R563 W:
Riethmueller, Richard. Walt Whitman and the Germans: A Study. Philadelphia, 1906.
IV:
Rivers, W. C. Walt Whitman's Anomaly. London, 1913.
IV:
Rogers, Cameron. The Magnificent Idler: The Story of Walt Whitman. Garden City (NY), 1926.
IV:
Rossetti, William Michael. Letters of William Michael Rossetti concerning Whitman, Blake, and Shelley, to Anne Gilchrist and Her Son Herbert Gilchrist. Edited by Clarence Gohdes and Paull Franklin Baum. Durham (NC), 1934.
IV:
Sanborn, Kate. The Vanity and Insanity of Genius. New York, 1886.
IV:
Saunders, Henry S., editor. Parodies on Walt Whitman. New York, 1923.
IV:
Sawyer, Roland D. Walt Whitman: The Prophet-Poet. Boston, 1913.
IV:
Shephard, Esther. Walt Whitman's Prose. New York, 1938.
IV:
Smith, Logan Pearsall. Unforgotten Years. London, 1938.
IV:
Smith, William. A Yorkshireman's Trip to the United States and Canada. London, 1892.
IV:
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Essay on Walt Whitman. East Aurora (NY), 1900.
(2 copies)
__________. Familiar Studies of Men and Books. London, 1882.
__________. Familiar Studies . . . London, 1888.
IV:
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Songs Before Sunrise. Boston, 1871.
__________. Under the Microscope. London, 1872.
IV:
Symonds, John Addington. A Problem in Modern Ethics: Being an Inquiry into the Phenomenon of Sexual Inversion. London, 1896.
__________. Walt Whitman: A Study. London, 1893.
(2 copies)
IV:
Thomson, James. Walt Whitman: The Man and the Poet. London, 1910.
IV:
Traubel, Horace L., editor. At the Graveside of Walt Whitman: Harleigh, Camden, New Jersey, March 30th. [No place of publication identified in Frey], 1892.
__________, editor. Camden's Compliment to Walt Whitman, May 31, 1889. Philadelphia, 1889.
__________. With Walt Whitman in Camden. 3 vols. New York, 1914-1915.
IV:
Triggs, Oscar L. Browning And Whitman: A Study in Democracy. London and New York, 1893.
IV:
Trowbridge, John Townsend. My Own Story: With Recollections of Noted Persons. First edition. Boston and New York, 1903.
IV:
Wharton, Edith. Old New York: The Spark (The 'Sixties). New York and London, 1924.
IV:
Wilson, Francis. Francis Wilson's Life of Himself. Boston and New York, 1924.
IV:
Wilson, Jane Bliss. Index of the Whitman Clippings. Master's thesis, 1947.
Winwar, Francis, pseudonym [See Grebanier, Francis]
IV:
Wright, Frank Lloyd. An Autobiography. New York, 1943.
Portraits Series, 1854-1891 and undated
Contains painted portraits, sketches, engravings, etchings, and photographs of Whitman and other subjects.
Portraits of Walt Whitman Subseries, 1854-1891 and undated
Where artist and date of a portrait are known, they are included below. Reproductions of most of the portraits are included in Whitman Portraits, edited by Henry S. Saunders, call number Trent IV S257 Wh. Entries for those portraits appearing in Whitman Portraits include Saunders' catalog number. Saunders' book catalogues portraits according to Whitman's age, thus lower-numbered items generally refer to images of a younger Whitman. Listed alphabetically by artist or photographer. See also photographs in the Miscellany Series.
Anonymous
III-6A:
Photograph, circa 1854 (Saunders 5)
Photograph, 1869; Whitman with Peter Doyle (Saunders 29)
Photograph, 1869; Whitman with Peter Doyle (Saunders 30)
III-5:
Photograph, 1869 (Saunders 96)
IV-B972 N or III-6A:
Photograph, Brooklyn, 1871 (Saunders 35)
III-6A:
Photograph, 1872 (Saunders 38)
Photograph, 1873 (Saunders 42)
Photograph with Kitty and Harold Johnston, 1879 (Saunders 68)
Photograph, 1888 (Saunders 100)
Oil painting, 1889 (Saunders 105)
V, Trent Pam Case:
Portrait reproduced in The Review of Reviews, Vol. III, no. 14: 1891, Feb., p. 163
I-3:
Photograph, undated (Saunders 37.1)
III-6A:
Photograph,
"Gribaydoff,"
undated (Saunders 37.1a)
Photograph, tinted, undated (Saunders 70)
II-7A 149:
Photograph, undated (Saunders 101)
III-6A:
Photograph of bust by Sidney Morse, undated (Saunders 301)
Whitman portrait (Blatas), undated
Brady, Mathew
II-9 or III-6B:
Photograph, Washington, 1869 (Saunders 24)
II-9: framed, with a postcard to Edward Carpenter, cf. Correspondence From or By Whitman Subseries; III-6A: photograph only.
III-6A:
Photograph (Saunders 45), undated
Coughlin, Jack
Trent Folio I-1:
Etching, undated
Cox, George C.
MS 4to 191:
Photograph (Saunders 92), 1887, Sept.
II-7C 201:
Photograph (Saunders 92), 1887, Sept.
III-6B 144a:
Photograph (Saunders 95), 1887, Sept.
Edy Brothers, London, Ont.
II-6B 142a:
1880 Sept. 22 (Saunders 75)
Gardner
III-6A:
Photograph, Washington 1863 (Saunders 21)
Gilchrist, Herbert
Trent South Wall L7, MS 4to 193:
Photo-intaglio from a drawing, undated; (Saunders 81.1)
(2 copies)
Gutekunst, F.
III-6A:
Photograph (reproduction), 1880; (Saunders 80)
Jaeckel, Willi
III-6A:
Lithograph, undated (Saunders 37)
Johnson, T.
Trent South Wall:
Etching, 1891 (Saunders 95a)
Johnston, Dr. John
MS 4to 194:
Photograph, Whitman with Warren Fritzinger, 1890, July (Saunders 108)
III-6A:
Photograph,
"With Warry"
, 1890 (Saunders 109)
MS 4to 203:
Photograph, Whitman, solus, 1890 (Saunders 110)
Kennedy, Bartlett F.
III-6A:
Photograph, Boston,
"The Pompous Photo"
, undated (Saunders 85)
Kotz, E. Whittlesey
Trent East Wall:
Charcoal engraving, 1887, 11 Feb. (Saunders 85e)
Kurtz, W.
MS 4to 195:
Photograph, Whitman with Harry and Kitty Johnston, 1879 (Saunders 68)
Linton, W. J.
II-4 or II-7B:
Woodcut (reproduction), 1871 (Saunders 44a)
II-9 or III-6A:
Pearsall, Frank
Photograph, undated (Saunders 31)
Copy in II-9 included with letter to William Sloane Kennedy, 1 Apr. 1890, a ticket to Whitman's lecture on Lincoln at Madison Square Theater 14 Apr. 1887, and a clipping from the Philadelphia Press16 Apr. 1887 describing the lecture. Cf. Correspondence From or By Whitman Subseries.
III-6A:
Photograph, undated (Saunders 32)
Pearsall, G. F. E.
MS 79:
Photograph, 1872 (Saunders 36)
Cf. Manuscript Poems Subseries: Poems not Appearing in Leaves of Grass.
II-5B 102:
Photograph, 1872 (Saunders 36)
Cf. Manuscript Poems Subseries: Notes for Poems.
Phillips and Taylor
MS 4to 205:
Photograph, 1883 (Saunders 48)
Potter and Co., Philadelphia
MS 4to 140:
Photograph, 1882 (Saunders 83)
Sarony
III-6A:
Photograph, 1879 (Saunders 57)
Schnelle, William G.
III-6A:
Three-colored cut, undated (Saunders 87.1)
(2 copies)
Schoff
III-6A:
Steel engraving, circa 1863 (Saunders 11a)
attrib. Smith, William Russell
Trent West Wall:
Oil portrait, undated
Waters, G. W.
II-6A 138:
Sketch (reprod.), 1877 (Saunders 52)
Woolf, S. J.
III-6B:
Lithograph, ca. 1940
Portraits of Others Subseries, 1862 and undated
This largely undated subseries consists of renderings of some of Whitman's friends and his brother George. Listed alphabetically by name of subject of image.
IV B972N:
Burroughs, John
Anon.; engraving, undated
Storage:
Hay, John
Anon.; photograph, undated
II display:
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Anon.; photograph, undated
Includes a letter by Holmes of 18 Feb. 1890; Cf. Correspondence To or About Whitman Subseries.
Storage:
Sand, George
E. Baumann; pencil drawing, undated
III-6A:
Whitman, Hannah
Anon.; photograph, undated
III-5:
Whitman, George W.
Anon.; hand-colored tintype, 1862 [?]
Miscellany Series, 1855-1992 and undated
Series contains literary and personal ephemera, as well as some material relating to the Whitman fund set up in England in the 1880s. Also included are memorabilia from Whitman's seventieth birthday banquet and a scrapbook containing pictures and clippings from newspapers and periodicals published in the years following Whitman's death. Research files on Whitman collected by Bliss Perry and Walter C. Rivers may also be found here. A file of correspondence addressed to the latter on the subject of Whitman's homosexuality includes transcriptions of letters from Perry and other contemporary Whitman scholars. Also included are several photographs of Whitman's house and additional portraits from Whitman Portraits, edited by Henry S. Saunders, call number Trent IV S257 Wh. Listed alphabetically by descriptive title.
III-9C:
Alboni, Marietta,
"La Mia Estensione,"
undated
I-7:
"The Asian Student,"
1968 Apr. 6
Bliss Perry Whitman Collection,
Research notebooks on Whitman collected by Bliss Perry. Vols. I and II contain transcribed correspondence, the bulk of which are addressed to William D. O'Connor and his family. Vols. IV and V contain various research files compiled by Perry.
II-8A:
Vols. I and II
II-8B:
Vols. IV and V
III-9C:
Copies of letters addressed to Walter C. Rivers on the subject of Walt Whitman's homosexuality, 1913-1916
I-7:
Daily Collegian, 1963 Feb. 28
III-9C:
"Early Roman History"
photocopy, undated
III-8A or III-8C:
"English Subscribers,"
undated
Leaflet containing a letter by Whitman and a list of English subscribers to the Whitman fund (2 copies).
III-9C:
Garrett, Florence.
"To Whitman,"
undated
Copy of poem donated by the author.
"Halcyon Days,"
1977 Dec. 8
Printed copy of poem on Christmas card.
III-8A:
Leaves of Grass wrappers, 1855
Three sets of original wrappers for the first edition of Leaves of Grass.
III-6B:
New York Herald, 1865 April 15
Front page reporting the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
III-8A:
Personal note, 1876
Proof as issued.
Photographs
III-6A:
Envelope of photos laid in Saunders, Henry S. Whitman Portraits, undated
"Portraits from Life,"
undated
Prints used to illustrate Frey, Ellen, Catalogue of the Whitman Collection, undated
Whitman's birthplace, undated
III-8A:
Photostats of Whitman notebook, undated
III-9C:
Photostats of Whitman family papers from the Library of Congress,
In addition to photostats, correspondence between Josiah Trent and Library of Congress staff about holdings there are also housed in this location.
Framed and on display in Trent Room:
"Poem Describing a Perfect School,"
1923
Broadside of an unpublished manuscript, printed from wood blocks by Simon de Vaulchier and illustrated by George Illian, no. 87 of 100.
BT III-8:
"Remembrance Copy,"
[1876?]
First two printed pages of Memoranda During the War,1875-1876,
I-8C:
Scrapbook of Whitman Correspondence and Clippings, 1892-1926
Collected by William Sloane Kennedy.
I-8A:
Scrapbook of Whitman Clippings and Miscellany, undated
Includes section on John Steinbeck in addition to Whitman material.
I-8B:
Scrapbook of Whitman Pictures and Clippings, 1892-1926
Collected by William Schroeder.
III-9C:
Trent, Josiah C., notes and correspondence on
"Walt Whitman--A Case History"
Article by J. C. Trent, M.D. appeared in Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics, 87: 113-121, July 1948
III-6B:
"Walt Whitman on Abraham Lincoln,"
1887 Apr. 14
Card announcing Whitman's lecture on Lincoln at Madison Square Theater in New York. For ticket to and Philadelphia Press account ( 1887 Apr. 16) of this lecture, Cf. Correspondence From or By Whitman Subseries.
I-9A:
"Walt Whitman Audio Materials"
, 1992
Audiocassette and related program from a concert given at the University of Iowa.
[Original audiocassette closed to use. Technical Services may need to have a use copy made before contents can be accessed. Please contact a reference archivist before coming to use this material.]
III-8A:
"Walt Whitman. September 1885,"
1885 Sept.
Leaflet announcing the formation of a subscription list in England for Whitman's benefit.
"Walt Whitman's Buggy and Horse,"
1885 Sept. 17
Leaflet of receipts for horse and buggy.
V:
"Walt Whitman's Seventieth Birthday,"
1889 May 31
Menu and program for Whitman's seventieth birthday banquet. Includes a portrait.
