FEINBERG/WHITMAN  NOTES and NOTEBOOKS  NOTES - Misc.  UNDATED  Walt Whitman's Books (DCN139)
Box 41 Folder 46
Friends of the Detroit Public Library, Inc
Walt Whitman's Books; a memo. A.MS. (1p. 17 1/2 x 14 cm.)
This list of books "evidently often read" by Walt Whitman was written for
an autobiographical essay. Most of the titles were used in Personal and Old
Age Jottings, Good-Bye My Fancy, 1891, p. 61.       {139}Books of WW
Copies evidently often read of the 
Bible, Homer and Shakspere,
Then among others, Felton's Greece,
[Scott's] a big volume with all
Walter Scott's Poetry, Ellis's old metrical abstracts, Hedge's
Prose writers and Poets of Germany,
Voltaires Dictionary, George Sand's books Volney
Virgil, Tennyson eleven big 
vols. American Library Literature
Emerson, the Dictionaries, R G
Ingersolls, Ossin, [George Sands'
books, Ellis old metrical abstracts,]
Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius
Ticknor's Spanish Literature translations
of all "the classics" and of 
Dante, Hafir Saadi, Omar Khayyam,
&c. &c:[*will return w.p. eliffing
very soon.*]

Walt Whitman
      Camden
           New Jersey

[*Camden N.J. 
AUG
25 
9am 
1894
Record*]

[*Belmont
AUG
25
1890
MASS*]