Feinberg/Whitman Box 8 Folder 35 General Correspondence Davis, William S. Oct. 1, 1863EXHIBITION OBJECT LIST (Rev. 02/01/13) Rotation #2 Sorted MSS Alphabetical The Civil War in America Exhibit Number: 4865 Call Num. Object # DIV Description or Medium / Display Sheet/Image Digital ID FC Security Rotation In Date Out Case/ Return COMMENTS Value or ID # Title/ Artist/ Author/ Date object type page size Date Wall Housing (h x w x d") for DIV Walt 148.01.00 MMS Walt Whitman. "Dec. 20th. Night at the 2 Jun-13 Jan-14 C08 for the transcript: Whitman dating to Whitman Box 1? Lacy house — at the foot of tree. the time of the Civil War (see Brady notebook Range 3 immediately in front a heap of feet, image-Saunders 16-1892-LC-BH LC#94 "Walt legs, arms, and human fragments cut, 82137 (Whitman43) Whitman bloody, bland and blue, swelled, and 1862" sickening . . . " Whitman 149.01.00 MMS Walt Whitman to William S. Davis, letter 2 Jun-13 Jan-14 C08 Image for panel: Hotchkiss map Feinberg Box 8 October 1, 1863. "I always carry a case [Walt Whitman, three-quarter Collection, Range 3 haversack with some articles most length portrait, seated, facing slightly Box? wanted—physical comforts are a sort of right, wearing heavy coat with right basis—I distribute nice large biscuit, hand in pocket, left hand at cheek]. sweet-crackers, sometimes cut up a cph.3b29439 lot of peaches with sugar, give preserves of all kinds, jellies, &c teas . . . " Whitman 214.01.00 MMS Walt Whitman's haversack leather haversack 2 Jun-13 Jan-14 C08 On pedestal slightly elevated Feinberg Range 1 haversack **Can this be removed from Collection, in special housing and laid flat on platform Box OV30, housing on deck in Hotchkiss case? Container 202 Willard 094.01.00 MMS Portrait of Antonia Ford Willard albumen 2 Jun-13 Jan-14 C11 Family Range 4 print, oval Papers, 0440A Container I: 173 Willard 098.01.00 MMS Lace made by Antonia Ford while lace collar 2 Jun-13 Jan-14 C11 Family Range 4 incarcerated in Old Capitol prison Papers, or OV? Collar & 004? Container I: 172? Willard 099.01.00 MMS Antonia Ford list of items needed while 2 Jun-13 Jan-14 C11 Family Range 4 incarcerated Papers, Box Object # = must have 4 digits 9decimal) 2 digits; the 2 digits after the decimal indicate the obj. is a substitution (second decimal + number = multiple pages/parts shown at the same time) 14 of 15WALT WHITMAN AUTOGRAPH LETTERS 1863 Oct. 1 WHITMAN, WALT, to William S. Davis Washington, D. C., A. L. Draft, 4p., endorsed by W. W. p. C.W.W., No. 81 FEINBERG COLLECTION OF WALT WHITMANThe noble gift of your brother Joseph P Davis of $20 for the aid of the wounded, sick, dying soldiers here came, safe to hand - - it [should be] is being sacredly distributed to them - part of it has been so - I may another time give you special cases - already - [My] I [am] every day or night in the hospitals - [for to] a few hours - as to physical comforts I attempt to [give] have some [also] generals a lot of - they something harmless & not too expensive [of which a] [portion can] to [the] go round to each man even if it is nothing but [one] a good sent Oct 1 1863 to W S Davis Worcester Massachusetts [*1888 See notes Mar 22 1888*]home-made biscuit to each man, I take a ward or two of an evening & two more next evening as an addition [for] to his or a couple of spoonfuls of blackberry preserve &c supper—sometimes one thing, sometimes another, (judgment of course has to be carefully used)— then, after [the] such general round, I [gradually &] fall back upon the main thing, after all, the special cases, alas, too common [—patients] those that need special attention, some little delicacy, [I a shall see of mostly] [little] some [little] trifle— [oftener] very often, far above all else, [personal] soothing kindness wanted— personal magnetism poor boys, their [sick &] sick hearts & wearied & exhausted bodies hunger for [a little petty] the [nourishment] sustenance of love or their deprest spirits must be cheered up— I find often young men, [ev] some [ah] hardly [often] more than children in age yet—so good, so sweet, so brave, so decorous, I could not feel [that] them [were] nearer to me if my own sons or young brothers [my soothing & petty goes a great way]