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1. Walt Whitman papers in the Charles E. Feinberg collection, 1763-1985

   28,000 items. 239 containers plus 53 oversize. 96.6 linear feet. 38 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Collector. Correspondence, literary manuscripts, diaries, commonplace books, notes and notebooks, and other papers of Walt Whitman collected by Feinberg. Also contains material relating to Whitman's life and writings including the papers of Richard Maurice Bucke, Charles E. Feinberg, John Johnston, William Douglas O'Connor, and Horace and Anne Montgomerie Traubel.

2. Horace Traubel and Anne Montgomerie Traubel papers, 1824-1979

   75,600 items. 218 containers plus 2 oversize. 88.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Poet, critic, and friends and biographer of Walt Whitman. Correspondence, diaries, including Horace Traubel's diary published as With Walt Whitman in Camden, literary files containing prose, poetry, criticism, and other writings by the Traubels and other writers, including the collected files of the Conservator, financial and legal records, scrapbooks, and printed matter. The collection reflects the Traubels' support of the literary and artistic community, the arts and crafts and ethical culture movements, and social and political reform. Also includes the papers of their daughter, Gertrude Traubel, as well as their friends and financial supporters, Frank and Mildred Bain.

3. William Johnson papers in the Charles E. Feinberg collection, 1944-1945

   30 items. 2 containers . 0.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Supreme Court justice. Chiefly holograph manuscripts, typescripts, and printed copies of a series of articles concerning Johnson written by Abraham J. Levin and published in the Michigan Law Review.

4. David C. Mearns papers, 1830-1979

   20,000 items. 161 containers plus 5 oversize. 65 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Librarian and historian. Correspondence, writings, reports, and orders documenting Mearns's positions as an official and historian of the Library of Congress and scholar of Abraham Lincoln.

5. Karl Jay Shapiro papers in the Charles E. Feinberg collection, 1930-1963

   170 items. 13 containers. 6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Collector. Writings, notebooks, printed matter, photographs, a few items of correspondence and other papers pertaining chiefly to the poetry of Karl Jay Shapiro collected by Feinberg.

6. Verner W. Clapp papers, 1901-1994

   16,000 items. 52 containers. 18.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Librarian. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, writings, notes, subject files, printed matter, and other papers relating to Clapp's service as a librarian, including at the Library of Congress, duties as chief librarian to the United Nations Conference on International Organization, San Francisco, Calif., 1945; work for Unesco on various international library matters; his role in the establishment of the National Diet Library (Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan) of Japan; and work for the Council on Library Resources.

7. Visual materials from the Walt Whitman papers in the Charles E. Feinberg collection

   ca. 1,010 items. -- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The collection contains portraits of Walt Whitman, images of his friends and associates, and places associated with Whitman collected by Charles E. Feinberg and others. Includes works by Baskin, Boardman, Brady, Eakins, Gutekunst, T. Johnson, Kruell, Partridge, and many others.

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