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Thomas Biggs Harned collection of Walt Whitman papers, 1842-1937

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Lincoln Material, [Before 1865?]-[1891] (continued)
"Death of Abraham Lincoln," [circa 1879]
(295)
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"Walt Whitman Last Night," 1880
(317g renumbered as 295e)
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"My 71st Year," circa 1890
(317f)
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BOX 6 REEL 4 "Whitman Broadsides," 1855-1889
(Catalog item nos. 202-203, 213)
Reprints of three Whitman articles, a printed copy of a letter to Whitman from Ralph Waldo Emerson dated 21 July 1855, and a canceled check which were mounted and bound in a single volume entitled, "Whitman Broadsides--1855."
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
Available on microfilm. Shelf no. 18,499
BOX 6 REEL 4 Check for fifty dollars from Whitman to Oldach & Co., 1889, Oct. 3
(213)
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Printed copy of letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1855, July 21
(202)
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Reprints of three articles on Whitman and his poetry, 1855
(203)
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BOX 6 REEL 4 Photocopies, [1847]-[1876]
(Catalog item nos. 80, 84, 86-89, 94, 101, 105, 111, 220).
Photocopies of selections from the ten missing notebooks and cardboard butterfly made from the manuscripts prior to their disappearance from the Library of Congress.
Organized by type of material and arranged chronologically therein.
Available on microfilm. Shelf no. 18,499
BOX 6 REEL 4 Notebooks
[1847]
(80)
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[Before 1855]
1 of 3
(84)
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2 of 3
(86)
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3 of 3
(87)
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[1857?] , "Oratory"
(88)
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[1859]
(89)
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[1862-1863]
(94)
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[circa 1863-1864] , Washington hospital notebook
(101)
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[1865] , hospital notebook
(105)
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[1876] , reading book
(111)
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Cardboard butterfly, undated
(220)
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BOX 7 REEL 4-5 Supplementary Papers, 1842-1937
Letters between correspondents other than Whitman, notes and writings, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and transcripts of notebooks. Additional photocopies of portions of a missing notebook (item no. 84) are also included.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
Available on microfilm. Shelf no. 18,499
BOX 7 REEL 4 Correspondence, 1919-1937, undated
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Miscellany
Brochure for notebooks missing from the Harned collection, draft and copy, undated
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Facsimile of letter from Whitman, 1842, June 14
Digital content available
Newspaper clippings See also Oversize
1848-1902
Digital content available
Undated
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BOX 7 REEL 5 Printed matter, 1871-1921, undated
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Transcripts
Diary, [1863]
(98)
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Notebooks, [1862]-[1864]
(94-95, 100, 103)
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Whitman letter to William M. Rossetti, 1872, Jan. 20
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Will and testament, circa 1882
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Notes and writings, undated
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Photocopies
Burroughs, John, "At the Nest," 1917
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Cardboard butterfly, undated
(220)
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Notebooks
[1847]
(80)
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[Before 1855]
(84)
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[Before 1855]
(86)
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[1860-1861]
(91)
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BOX 8 REEL 1 Recovered Cardboard Butterfly and Notebooks, [1847]-[circa 1863-1864]
(Catalog item nos. 80, 86, 94, 101, 220).
Cardboard butterfly and four notebooks containing diary entries, poetry drafts and trial lines, prose drafts, notes on Civil War hospital patients, names and addresses, and miscellaneous notes. These are the items numbered 1, 2, 5, 7, and 11 in the Library's 1954 pamphlet "Ten Notebooks and a Cardboard Butterfly Missing from the Walt Whitman Papers."
Organized by type of material and arranged chronologically therein.
Available on microfilm. Shelf no. 21,295
BOX 8 REEL 1 Cardboard butterfly, undated
(220)
Digital content available
Notebooks
[1847]
(80)
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