WALT WHITMAN Printed Matter 1935-39, 1954 Box 2 Folder 2 (LC Catalog #s, 1034, 1048, & 1051)Walt Whitman Collection 25 THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF WALT WHITMAN AN EXHIBIT FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF MRS. FRANK JULIAN SPRAGUE OF NEW YORK CITYA VIEW OF THE WHITMAN EXHIBIT 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 [MAY 31, 1819-1939] FROM THE WHITMAN COLLECTION OF MRS. FRANK JULIAN SPRAGUE OF NEW YORK CITY EXHIBITED AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 1939FOREWORD THE YEAR 1939 marks the one hundred and twentieth anniversary of the birth of Walt Whitman. As part of the celebration of that anniversary, the Library of Congress exhibited a collection of material from the magnificent Walt Whitman collection assembled over a period of twenty-five years by Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague, of New York City. This material was selected and prepared for exhibition by Dr. Joseph Auslander, Consultant in Poetry in the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress is unwilling that this exhibit should terminate without some record which may serve as an expression of its gratitude to Mrs. Sprague for her generosity in making the display possible and a witness to its appreciation of Mrs. Sprague's great service to American poetry and to the American tradition of which Walt Whitman is not only the poet but the symbol. Many of the books in Mrs. Sprague's collection are unique, some are in mint condition, none is unopened. The greater part of the collection, including the two paintings which were done from life, has never before been exhibited to the great American public for which Whitman wrote and by which he is remembered. [*IV*] PREFACE BOOK COLLECTORS usually swing into a definite objective as their collections take form. Personally, I have always found a highly specialized collection of greatest interest, also of value in study or research in proportion to its completeness and its richness in source material and items of intensely personal content. This should be especially true of a Whitman Collection because of the extreme devotion and loyalty of his friends and followers, who treasured every detail of information concerning him personally, his life, and his work. My interest in making this collection followed a period of study which required the gradual assembling of a Whitman reference library. This meant his writings in various editions, biographies and books about him in foreign languages as well as English, articles and pictures from magazines and newspapers. Scarcely a day passed without adding some item of interest. Having been called a Whitmaniac, my family later invented the word cliptomaniac to further define my activities. With the helpful encouragement and cooperation of many of Whitman's closest friends it has been my good fortune to add to the collection intimate letters, books and manuscripts, in some cases entire collections, which have belonged to biographers and friends of the poet. Many of the books are enriched with autographs, inscriptions, and important marginal notes - each one carrying with it special memories of Whitman's own time. One of the deepest satisfactions a collector can have is to share his treasures with others, especially those who seek first hand information and inspiration, and it has been my privilege to have frequent assurance that this collection has helped in some measure to authenticate and carry on the Whitman message. I am happy to allow my collection to remain on exhibit through the early months of 1940. In offering the present exhibition our National Library has opened up a broadened field by presenting our greatest poet to the public which Whitman loved and greeted in his poem Salut au Monde. HARRIET SPRAGUE. [*V*]Plan of the Exhibit [*VI*] THE GILCHRIST COLLECTION: FROM THE GILCHRIST FAMILY: CONSISTING OF BOOKS, LETTERS, AND MISCELLANY Books WHITMAN, WALT - LEAVES OF GRASS. Author's Edition, With Portraits and Intercalations. Camden, New Jersey, 1876. Of the Author's Edition, about one hundred copies were issued with the label "Centennial Edition", of which this is one. Intercalations: p. 207, As in a Swoon; p. 247, The Beauty of the Ship; p. 285, title, The Wound-Dresser, pasted over The Dresser; p. 359, When the Full-Grown Poet Came; p. 369, After an Interval. Autographed and inscribed by Whitman to Anne Gilchrist. [Center WHITMAN, WALT - TWO RIVULETS, INCLUDING DEMOCRATIC VISTAS, CENTENNIAL SONGS, AND PASSAGE TO INDIA. Author's Edition. Camden, New Jersey, 1876 This book was issued as a companion volume to the 1876 Author's Edition of "The Leaves of Grass." This is one of 100 copies issued with the label "Centennial Ed'n—1876." Autographed and inscribed by Whitman to Anne Gilchrist. [Center WHITMAN, WALT - SPECIMEN DAYS & COLLECT. Philadelphia, Rees Welsh & Co., 1882-'83. First issue. Tall paper copy inscribed to Anne Gilchrist. [Center GILCHRIST, HERBERT HARLAKENDEN, ed.—ANNE GILCHRIST, HER LIFE AND WRITINGS. With a Prefatory Notice by William Michael Rossetti. Second Edition. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1887. [Center WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS, WITH SANDS AT SEVENTY & A BACKWARD GLANCE O'ER TRAVEL'D ROADS. Portraits from Life. Autograph. Special Ed'n. [Philadelphia, Ferguson Bros. & Co., c1881]. (Published 1889). Inscribed by Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist. [Center [*1*][TRAUBEL, HORACE L., ed.] CAMDEN'S COMPLIMENT TO WALT WHITMAN, May 31, 1889. NOTES, ADDRESSES, LETTERS, TELEGRAMS. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1889. Inscribed by Whitman to Grace Gilchrist. [Center GOULD, ELIZABETH PORTER—ANNE GILCHRIST AND WALT WHITMAN. Philadelphia, David McKay, [c1900]. Inscribed by John Burroughs to Clara Barrus. With a note by Dr. Barrus. [Center GILCHRIST, ANNE—A WOMAN'S ESTIMATE OF WALT WHITMAN. In The Radical, Boston, May, 1870. Original article on Whitman by Anne Gilchrist; Clara Barrus' copy with her signature and notes. [Center FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER, November 1, 1884. Sent by Whitman to Mrs. Gilchrist. Signed and addressed by Whitman, with numerous items of varied interest marked by him. [Center WYATT, EDITH—WHITMAN AND ANNE GILCHRIST. In The North American Review, September, 1919. [Center Letters WHITMAN, WALT—AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO WILLIAM M. ROSSETTI, DECEMBER 9, 1869. Whitman's first mention of Anne Gilchrist. [Center BURROUGHS, JOHN—THREE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED, TO MRS. GILCHRIST, November 15, 1875; October 22, 1882; July 13, 1885. An appreciation of her writings about Whitman. [Center GILCHRIST, ANNE—AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO HERBERT GILCHRIST. Concerns Whitman's visits, 1877. [Center WHITMAN, WALT—FOUR AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED, TO BEATRICE GILCHRIST, 1877-1878. Casual comments on matters of mutual interest. [Center [*2*] 328 Mickle street Camden New Jersey Dec. 15 1885 Dear Herbert I have rec'd your letter. Nothing now remains but a sweet & rich memory - none more beautiful, all time, all life, all the earth — – I cannot write any thing of a letter to-day. I must sit alone & think. Walt Whitman WHITMAN'S LETTER TO HERBERT GILCHRIST ON LEARNING OF ANNE GILCHRIST'S DEATH WHITMAN, WALT—SEVENTEEN AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED, TO HERBERT GILCHRIST, 1877-1888. Includes one written upon receiving news of the death of Mrs. Gilchrist (see facsimile above), and one refusing to allow his letters from Mrs. Gilchrist to be published. [Center [*3*]GILCHRIST, ANNE - Three Autograph Letters Signed, to Walt Whitman, 1881-1882. These are copies kept by Mrs. Gilchrist. All of her letters sent to Whitman were placed by T. B. Harned in the Library of Congress. [Center WHITMAN, WALT- Autograph List Written for Mrs. Gilchrist. No date. These are the names of the people to whom Whitman suggested she send her "Confession". [Center BURROUGHS, JOHN - Four Autograph Letters Signed, to Herbert Gilchrist, 1883-1887. Includes a letter written after hearing of Mrs. Gilchrist's death. [Center DOWDEN, EDWARD - Three Autograph Letters Signed, to Anne Gilchrist, 1884. They refer to Mrs. Gilchrist's letters which appear in Dr. Bucke's biography of Walt Whitman. [Center SYMONDS, JOHN ADDINGTON - Two Autograph Letters Signed, to Herbert Gilchrist, 1885. They refer to a Testimonial Fund for Whitman. [Center WHITMAN, WALT - Thirty-two Autograph Letters and One Post Card Signed, to Mrs. Anne Gilchrist. These are the original letters. Whitman kept copies of some of them. The copies were all given by T. B. Harned, one of Whitman's literary executors, together with a large collection of Whitmaniana, to the Library of Congress. The five Whitman letters to Mrs. Gilchrist published in "The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman" were taken from the copies, as the Gilchrist family refused to release the originals in their possession. Included is Whitman's last letter to Mrs. Gilchrist, dated December 15, 1885; Mrs. Gilchrist died November 29, 1885, but Whitman only learned of her death on December 18, 1885. [Center GILCHRIST, HERBERT - Autograph Letter Signed, to W. S. Kennedy, September 20, 1886. Advises him with reference to obtaining English publishers for his book, remuneration to be expected, etc. [Center GILCHRIST, ANNE - The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman. Edited With an Introduction by Thomas B. Harned. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918. Clara Barrus' copy, with an inscription to her by Harned. Marginal notes by Dr. Barrus. [Center 4 "Going Somewhere." My science friend - my noblest woman (Now buried friend in an English grave - and this [my] a memory [????] for dear Ended our talk - "The amount and [????] love's sake [end] of all) we know - of old or modern learning, intuitions deep, Of all the Histories, Geologies - of all Astronomy - [off] of Evolution, Metaphysics all, Is, that we are bounding, speeding slowly, surely, bettering [????????] Life, life an endless march an endless army. The world, the race, the soul, the universe, [Life, life an endless march - an endless army,] All [somewhere] [???] onward bound - all surely going somewhere." "Going Somewhere", Whitman's Rough Draft of a Poem in Memory of Anne Gilchrist Miscellany GILCHRIST, HERBERT - Manuscript Notebook, 1876-1877. Records conversations with Whitman. Sketch of Whitman on one page. [Center WHITMAN, WALT - A Ticket to His Lecture, "Death of Abraham Lincoln", Association Hall, Philadelphia, Evening of April 15th, 1880. The 15th anniversary of the assassination of Lincoln. Ticket donated by Whitman. [Center WHITMAN, WALT - Going Somewhere. Rough first draft in the poet's autograph of his poem in memory of Mrs. Gilchrist. (See facsimile above.) Sent to Herbert Gilchrist in 1887. [Center GILCHRIST, ANNE - Autograph Manuscript Notes Concerning Whitman. No date. Two pages. [Center WHITMAN, WALT - His Visiting Card. Includes address in Whitman's autograph. [Center WHITMAN, WALT - Eight Autograph Post Cards Signed, to Mrs. Gilchrist. [Center 5WHITMAN, WALT—TWELVE AUTOGRAPH POST CARDS SIGNED, TO HERBERT GILCHRIST.. [Center WHITMAN, WALT—A LOCK OF HIS HAIR. This was cut from his head after his death by his housekeeper, Mrs. Davis, and given to Herbert Gilchrist. Gilchrist's sister, Mrs. Grace Gilchrist Friend, gave it to Mrs. Sprague. [Center WHITMAN, WALT—HIS PENCIL. This was given to Herbert Gilchrist by Mrs. Davis, and by Mrs. Grace Gilchrist Frend to Mrs. Sprague. [Center GILCHRIST, ANNE—UNPUBLISHED PHOTOGRAPH, February, 1851. From a silver plate daguerreotype of Anne Burrows, age twenty-three, before her marriage to Alexander Gilchrist [Center GILCHRIST, ANNE—UNPUBLISHED PHOTOGRAPH. From a "Carte de Visite" of Anne Gilchrist, taken at Halstead, Essex, August, 1874, at the age of forty-six. This was two years before her visit to America. [Center WHITMAN, WALT-PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT. This was given to Mrs. Gilchrist with his autograph, January 1, 1878. [Center GILCHRIST, HERBERT—WALT WHITMAN AT TIMBER CREEK, Summer, 1878. Pen and ink sketch. With autograph note signed by Grace Gilchrist Frend. [Center GILCHRIST, HERBERT—SKETCH OF WHITMAN AT TIMBER CREEK, 1878. [Center WHITMAN, WALT—AUTOGRAPHED PHOTOGRAPH. This was given to Mrs. Gilchrist in 1869. A letter from Whitman to William M. Rossetti, shown in this collection, refers to this photograph. [Center GILCHRIST, HERBERT—"CONVERSATION PIECE", or, "THE TEA PARTY". Photographic reproduction of a painting of Walt Whitman, Anne Gilchrist, and Grace Gilchrist. Painted between 1882 and 1884. [Center GILCHRIST, HERBERT—ANNE GILCHRIST IN HER HAMPSTEAD HOME, 1884. Photographic reproduction of a portrait in oils by her son. [Center [*6*] (GILCHRIST, HERBERT)—PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT IN HIS STUDIO, 1889. [Center GILCHRIST, HERBERT—ANNE GILCHRIST. Engraving made from a painting, with an autograph note by T. B. Harned. [Center WHITMAN'S WRITINGS PUBLISHED IN PERIODICALS [WHITMAN, WALT]—DEATH IN THE SCHOOLROOM. A FACT. In The United States Magazine, and Democratic Review, August, 1841. Signed "W. W." [12 WHITMAN, WALT—WILD FRANK'S RETURN. By Walter Whitman. In the United States Magazine, and Democratic Review, November, 1841. [12 WHITMAN, WALT—BERVANCE: OR, FATHER AND SON. By Walter Whitman. From the United States Magazine, and Democratic Review, December, 1841. Clipped and in paper covers. [12 WHITMAN, WALT—THE CHILD-GHOST; A STORY OF THE LAST LOYALIST. By Walter Whitman. From the United States Magazine, and Democratic Review, May, 1842. [12 WHITMAN, WALT.—THE LAST OF THE SACRED ARMY. By Walter Whitman. In the United States Magazine, and Democratic Review, March 1842. [12 WHITMAN, WALT—TEAR DOWN AND BUILD OVER AGAIN. By Walter Whitman. From the American Review, November, 1845. [12 WHITMAN, WALT—A CAROL OF HARVEST, FOR 1867. In The Galaxy, September, 1867. Signed "Walt Whitman". [12 WHITMAN, WALT—DEMOCRACY. In the Galaxy, December, 1867. Signed "Walt Whitman". [12 [*7*]WHITMAN, WALT—THE POETRY OF THE FUTURE. From The North American Review, February, 1881. One of a very few copies issued for friends of Whitman. The pages are numbered as in the magazine, and the words "From the North American Review" printed at the top of the first page. [12 WHITMAN, WALT—ARMY HOSPITALS AND CASES. MEMORANDA AT THE TIME, 1863-66. In The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, October, 1888. [12 WHITMAN, WALT—DEATH'S VALLEY. From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, April, 1892. A poem by Walt Whitman, sometimes called his "Swan song". His last publication in verse. Erroneously listed in Triggs' bibliography as published in 1896 [12 WHITMAN, WALT—EDUCATION IN OUR SCHOOLS, A Fragment by Walt Whitman, edited by Anna (sic) M. Traubel. In The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Week-End (magazine section), July 12, 1936 [13 EARLIEST EDITIONS OF WHITMAN WHITMAN, WALT—FRANKLIN EVANS; or, THE INEBRIATE, A TALE OF THE TIMES, By Walter Whitman. Original temperance novel published as an extra to the New World, New York, November, 1842, Extra Series, No. 34. [I BRENTON, JAMES J., ed.—VOICES FROM THE PRESS; A Collection of Sketches, Essays, and Poems, by Practical Printers. New York, Charles B. Norton, 1850. This book contains "The Tomb Blossoms", and also the first biographical article ever written about Whitman. Brenton once employed Whitman as a printer, and the article discusses his printing career. [I WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. Brooklyn, New York, 1855. First edition, first issue. From the library of J. W. Wallace. Unique, but not perfect copy, with strong association interest. Four of the notes printed in the second issue, and the Emerson letter, have been bound in under the direction of J. Johnston for presentation to J.W. Wallace [I [*8*] WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. Brooklyn, New York, 1855. First edition, second issue. [I WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. Brooklyn, New York, 1855. First edition, second issue. From the library of Isaac Hull Platt. [I WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. Brooklyn, New York, [Fowler and Wells], 1856. Second edition. From the library of Carolyn Wells. Has on backstrip quotation from Emerson's letter to Whitman: "I greet you at the beginning of a great career." This quotation was used without Emerson's permission. [2 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS IMPRINTS. American and European criticisms of Leaves of Grass. Boston, Thayer and Eldridge, 1860. John Addington Symond's copy. His autograph initials are on title page and margins. Signed also by H. Buxton Forman. From the library of Carolyn Wells. The letter from Emerson to Whitman is printed in full. Dr. Bucke says articles on pages 7, 30, and 38 were written by Whitman and contributed anonymously to various papers. [2 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. Boston, Thayer and Eldridge, Year 85 of The States (1860-1861). Genuine third edition. [2 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. Boston, Thayer and Eldridge, Year 85 of The States (1860-61) [1879 or later]. Spurious issue. Inscribed by Horace Traubel to J. W. Wallace. This is the spurious issue printed by Richard Worthington from the plates of the Thayer and Eldridge edition of 1860-61, after the latter firm's bankruptcy. Has advertisements of other Worthington books at end of volume. [2 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. Boston, Thayer and Eldridge, Year 85 of The States (1860-61) [1879 or later]. Another one of the spurious Worthington issues. Does not contain advertisements of other Worthington books at the end of volume. [2 BUCKE, RICHARD MAURICE—AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, to CHARLES ELDRIDGE, Aug. 20, 1880. Concerns the spurious 1860 "Leaves of Grass". [3 [*9*]WHITMAN, WALT—DRUM-TAPS. New York, 1865. Second issue, containing "When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd". Alfred F. Goldsmith of New York, said in a letter of April 26, 1939, to Mrs. Sprague, "Here is the copy of Drum-Taps—and I must admit I have no explanation for it. The binding is the fine calf of the period. It may have been a special binding for a friend or a trial copy. All the edges are gilt and it measures 3/16 of an inch taller than the regular copies. I have never seen a copy like it." [1 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. New York, 1867. Fourth edition. Printed for Whitman by William E. Chapin, Beekman Street, New York. Contains "Leaves of Grass" and "Songs Before Parting". [2 WHITMAN, WALT—POEMS . . . Selected and Edited by William Michael Rossetti. London, John Camden Hotten, 1868. First English edition, first issue. Inscribed to William Bell Scott, to whom the book was dedicated, by Rossetti. The inscription is signed "W. M. R." Bookplates: William Bell Scott and H. Buxton Forman. The only book in which Whitman permitted his work to be changed or expurgated. [2 WHITMAN, WALT—AFTER ALL, NOT TO CREATE ONLY. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1871. Whitman's American Institute poem. Three variant copies: one in dark green and one in maroon beveled cloth boards, regular edition; one in brown limp cloth, cheaper edition made for sale at the exhibition. The green copy is inscribed to J. W. Wallace by John Johnston. [1 WHITMAN, WALT—DEMOCRATIC VISTAS. MEMORANDA. Washington, D. C., 1871. Printed for Whitman by J. S. Redfield, New York. Uncut, with advertisements on back cover. [1 [WHITMAN, WALT]—PASSAGE TO INDIA. Washington, D. C., 1871. At head of title: Leaves of Grass. Printed for Whitman by J. S. Redfield, New York. Contains selections from the original "Leaves of Grass" and numerous later poems. Whitman's name appears in the copyright notice on the verso of the title page. [2 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. Washington, D. C., 1871. Fifth edition, first issue. Printed by J. S. Redfield, New York. Later issues include "Passage to India". Bookplate: Isaac Hull Platt. This is the copy sent by Whitman to Fred S. Ellis, book-dealer and publisher, with a letter containing proposals for an English edition. This copy re-bound. [2 [*10*] WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. Supplementary notes, unbound, to the 1871 edition. [2 [WHITMAN, WALT]— . . . AS A STRONG BIRD ON PINIONS FREE AND OTHER POEMS. Washington, D. C., 1872. At head of title: "Leaves of Grass". Printed by S. W. Green. Inscribed by Whitman to J. W. Wallace. [2 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. Washington, D. C., 1872. Brown calf back and corners. Early issue. [2 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. Washington, D. C., 1872. Regular issue in green cloth. [2 WHITMAN, WALT—MEMORANDA DURING THE WAR. Author's Publication. Camden, New Jersey, 1875-'76. Inscribed by Whitman to Miss Lizzie Hyder, later Mrs. Wesley Stafford. Purchased by Mrs. Martha Davis, Whitman's housekeeper and curator of the Whitman House in Camden. Probably not more than one hundred copies of this book were issued. [1 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. Author's Edition, With Portraits from life. Camden, New Jersey, 1876. Autographed. Inscribed by Dr. Bucke to J. W. Wallace. [2 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. Author's Edition, With Portraits and Intercalations. Camden, New Jersey, 1876. Title page only of the 1876 edition, of which there is a copy in the Gilchrist collection, in addition to the one cited above. [3 WHITMAN, WALT—TWO RIVULETS, INCLUDING DEMOCRATIC VISTAS, CENTENNIAL SONGS, AND PASSAGE TO INDIA. Author's Edition, Camden, New Jersey, 1876. Autographed portrait of Whitman as frontispiece. Whitman's autograph on flyleaf, and inscription from Dr. R. M. Bucke to J. W. Wallace. [2 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS: Preface to the Original Edition, 1855. London, Trübner & Co., 1881. Separate reprint of preface, in blue paper covers. Edition limited to five hundred copies. [2 [*11*]WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. Boston, James R. Osgood & Co., 1881-82. Seventh edition. Generally known as the suppressed Boston issue. This, the first issue, had the words "Third Edition" printed on the title page; only a few copies escaped with this error. [3 [WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS]. A series of four newspaper articles on the suppression of the Boston 1881-82 edition, with autograph note in Whitman's hand, and an announcement of the republication. These clippings have been pasted on pages and bound in with title-page. [3 [WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS]. A notebook containing contemporary newspaper clippings about the suppressed edition of "Leaves of Grass". [3 [WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS]. Original letters and articles on the suppression of the Boston edition (1881-82) of "Leaves of Grass". Including a letter from Benjamin R. Tucker, founder and editor of the Radical Review, to W. D. O'Connor; O'Connor's reply to Tucker; and notes by O'Connor on the suppression. Also a list of the twenty-two suppressed passages in the autograph of O'Connor [3 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. Author's Copyright Edition. London, David Bogue, 1881. [3 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. Philadelphia, Rees Welsh & Co., 1882. The first Philadelphia edition. This copy is extra illustrated and may be unique. [3 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. Philadelphia, Rees Welsh & Co., 1882. Has no illustrations except "Whitman As a Young Man" facing page 29. From the library of Isaac Hull Platt. [3 [KING, MOSES, ed.]—POETS' TRIBUTES TO GARFIELD. Cambridge, Mass., Moses King, 1882. Includes Walt Whitman's poem, "The Sobbing of the Bells (Midnight, September 19-20)", p. 71. Bookplate and autograph of Henry S. Saunders. [2 WHITMAN, WALT—SPECIMEN DAYS AND COLLECT. Philadelphia, Rees Welsh & Co., 1882-'83 [2 [*12*] WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS, Philadelphia, David McKay, 1884. Tall copy. [3 BUFFALO HISTORICAL SOCIETY—TRANSACTIONS . . . RED JACKET. VOLUME III. Buffalo, Published by order of the Society, 1885. Cover title reads: Obsequies of Red Jacket at Buffalo, October 9th, 1884. Includes Red Jacket, (From Aloft), By Walt Whitman. [2 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. The Poems of Walt Whitman. [Selected] with Introduction By Ernest Rhys. London, Walter Scott, 1886. Canterbury Poets' Series. Contains inscription by Rhys to William Michael Rossetti, March 1, 1886, and Rossetti's signature. Blue cloth. The edition of this selection in brown cloth is generally considered the first. [3 WHITMAN, WALT—DEMOCRATIC VISTAS, AND OTHER PAPERS. London, Walter Scott; Toronto, W. J. Gage & Co., 1888. First Canadian edition. From the library of J. W. Wallace. The text of this edition is unlike that of the 1871 edition. [1 WHITMAN, WALT—NOVEMBER BOUGHS. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1888. Large octavo in maroon cloth, one of many variants of this edition. Autographed by Whitman Jan. 31, 1889, for Mrs. Garrison, mother of the late Secretary of War. Inscribed to Mrs. Sprague by May Riley Smith, to whom it was given by Mrs. Garrison. [2 WHITMAN WALT—NOVEMBER BOUGHS. London, Alexander Gardner, 1889. The English edition was issued in dark green or maroon cloth, and corresponds to the McKay edition of 1888. This copy is in maroon cloth. Autographed by J. W. Wallace. [2 [HOWELLS, WILLIAM DEAN—REVIEW OF "NOVEMBER BOUGHS"]. From Harpers' New Monthly Magazine, February, 1889. Listed in Harpers' 1889 Index as by William Dean Howells. Accompanied by two autograph letters from Howells to Mrs. Sprague. [2 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS, WITH SANDS AT SEVENTY & A BACKWARD GLANCE O'ER TRAVEL'D ROADS. Portraits from Life. Autograph. Special Ed'n. [Philadelphia, Printed by Ferguson Bros. & Co., 1889]. Autograph of Whitman on title page. This edition limited to 300 copies, of which this one is inscribed by Horace Traubel to Helen Campbell. [3 [*13*]WHITMAN, WALT—GOOD-BYE MY FANCY, 2D ANNEX TO LEAVES OF GRASS. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1891. Fine tall copy with portraits. Dark green, uncut, one of a small special issue of the first edition. [3 WHITMAN, WALT—GOOD-BYE MY FANCY, 2D ANNEX TO LEAVES OF GRASS. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1891. Regular maroon first edition with portraits. Bookplate: Edwin B. Holden. [3 WHITMAN, WALT—GOOD-BYE MY FANCY, 2D ANNEX TO LEAVES OF GRASS. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1891. Unbound review copy with autograph note of W. S. Kennedy. [3 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. Including Sands at Seventy . . . 1st Annex, Good-Bye my Fancy . . . 2d Annex, A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads, and Portrait from Life. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1891-'2. "Death-bed issue." Gray paper wrappers, uncut. Inscribed to "J. W. Wallace f'm the author with best wishes remembrances & love." Probably the last book ever inscribed by Whitman. Only one other copy of this edition is known to have been autographed by the poet. [3 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. Including Sands at Seventy . . . 1st Annex, Good-Bye my Fancy . . . 2d Annex, A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads, and Portrait from Life. Philadelphia, David McKay, [1892]. Gray-green wrappers, cut. Paper label on backstrip: "Complete, 1892". Inscribed by Horace Traubel "To J. W. Wallace in England from Anne Montgomerie and Horace L. Traubel in America. A first copy of a new edition." [3 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. Including Sands at Seventy . . . 1st Annex, Good-Bye my Fancy . . . 2d Annex, A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads, and Portrait from Life. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1894. 1894 issue of 1892 edition. Green cloth [3 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. Including Sands at Seventy, Good Bye My Fancy, Old Age Echoes, and A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads. Boston, Small, Maynard & Company, 1897. Regular issue, in green cloth. Inscribed by Horace Traubel to J. W. Wallace. [3 [*14*] WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. London, G. P. Putnam's Sons; Boston, Small, Maynard & Company, 1897. Gray cloth with green floral decorations. [3 WHITMAN, WALT—DRUM-TAPS. London, Chatto & Windus, 1915. First English edition. The introduction by Walter de la Mare, which is unsigned, was first published in the London Times. [1 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. Portland, Maine, Thomas Bird Mosher, 1919. Facsimile of 1855 edition. One of 250 copies in dark green cloth. There were also 100 copies in gold stamped blue paper boards, and 50 copies in gold stamped Japan vellum boards. [1 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. Portland, Maine, Thomas Bird Mosher, 1920. Facsimile of 1855 edition. Second issue with slight changes. One of 500 copies, in dark green cloth stamped in gold. Contains facsimile of a copy of the Emerson letter in Whitman's autograph. [1 WHITMAN, WALT—FRANKLIN EVANS, OR THE INEBRIATE, A TALE OF THE TIMES. With Introduction by Emory Holloway. New York, Random House, 1929. Only separately bound reprint. [1 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. Reproduced from the first edition (1855), with an introduction by Clifton Joseph Furness. The Facsimile Text Society, New York, Columbia University Press, 1939. WHITMAN, WALT—BOZ AND DEMOCRACY. In Brother Jonathan, February 26,1842 [1 WHITMAN, WALT—AN INDIAN BUREAU REMINISCENCE. From Today, London, May, 1884. With an autograph note: "Please return to W. S. Kennedy Belmont Mass." [3 WHITMAN, WALT—FACSIMILE OF AN EARLY AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "WALTER WHITMAN", inquiring about his manuscript, "The Angel of Years", submitted to the Boston Miscellany. Autograph note by T. B. Harned stating that the original letter was given to him by the Rev. Edward Everett Hale in 1899. [3 [*15*]HOLLYER, SAMUEL—ENGRAVING OF WHITMAN, 1854. Hollyer signed this print for Mrs. Sprague a short time before his death in 1919. This engraving called “The Carpenter” was made from a daguerreotype by Gabriel Harrison and was first used as a frontispiece in the 1855 edition of “Leaves of Grass”. [1 HOLLYER, SAMUEL—TWO HOLLYER ENGRAVINGS OF WHITMAN, Autographed. With framed manuscript post card containing reference to Sidney H. Morse. Post card addressed by Whitman to “J. H. Johnston, Diamond Merchant, 150 Bowery Cor: Broome St: New York City”, from Camden. Card closes with the sentence: “Conway has been here lecturing ag’t the President– as he did ag’t the Devil–Probably both are indispensable and immovable.” [3 WHITMAN, WALT—AUTOGRAPH REPRODUCTION FROM A PHOTOGRAPH OF WHITMAN. Autograph note: “The real Whitman in early war times—‘62 to ‘65”, by T. B. Harned. [2 WHITMAN, WALT—PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT, FRAMED. Half length, seated, elbow on desk, white hat. Signed:“Walt Whitman 1881”. [3 WHITMAN, WALT—REPRODUCTION OF A PHOTOGRAPH AT TIMBER CREEK. Full length, half seated on stump. Autograph note: “In the woods at Timber Creek”, by T. B. Harned. [2 LINTON, W. J.—WOODCUT OF WHITMAN. After a photograph by George C. Potter, Washington, 1871. Shows head and shoulders. Inscribed: “LINTON Wood Cut. T. B. Harned.” [2 RICHETON, LEON—ETCHING OF HEAD OF WHITMAN. Portrayed wearing hat with turned up brim. No date. [2 WHITMAN, WALT—PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT OF WHITMAN IN OLD AGE. [2 WHITMAN, WALT—REPRODUCTION OF A PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT. Autograph note reads: “Walt Whitman in old age. T. B. Harned”. [2 PENNELL, JOSEPH—ETCHING OF WHITMAN'S HOUSE IN CAMDEN, New Jersey. Given by Mrs. Pennell to Mrs. Sprague, December 15, 1930. (See accompanying illustration.) [3 [*16*] [*WHITMAN'S HOME IN CAMDEN, ETCHING BY JOSEPH PENNELL*]LATER EDITIONS OF WHITMAN WHITMAN, WALT—SPECIMEN DAYS IN AMERICA. Newly Revised by the Author, with Fresh Preface and Additional Note. London, Walter Scott, 1887. Apparently a variant of the first English edition. Dark green cloth, gold corner ornamentation. J. W. Wallace's copy. [5 WHITMAN, WALT—SPECIMEN DAYS IN AMERICA. Revised by the Author, with Fresh Preface and Additional Note. London and Newcastle-on-Tyne, Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd., [I887?]. In Scott Library series. Red cloth. [5 WHITMAN, WALT—GEMS FROM WALT WHITMAN, Selected by Elizabeth Porter Gould. Philadelphia, David McKay, I889. [4 BRINTON, DANIEL G., and THOMAS DAVIDSON—GIORDANO BRUNO: PHILOSOPHER AND MARTYR. Two addresses. [With a preface by Walt Whitman]. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1890. The only other book for which Whitman wrote a preface was W. D. O'Connor's "Three Tales." From the J. W. Wallace Collection. [5 WHITMAN, WALT—SELECTED POEMS. New York, Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892. Edited by Arthur Stedman. First issue. Mark Twain was a partner in the Webster firm. [4 WHITMAN, WALT— . . . POEMS. London, "Review of Reviews," [1895]. The Masterpiece Library; The Penny Poets.-xxvii. Contents: Song of Myself, Songs of Sex, Songs of the War, Songs of Death, Songs Democratic. According to H. S. Saunders, the introduction was written by the editor of the series, W. T. Stead. Three copies: one in original orange paper wrappers; another, bound by Henry S. Saunders, in olive boards, original wrappers bound in; another, bound, together with selections from Coleridge and Arnold, in cloth. [4 WHITMAN, WALT—CALAMUS. A SERIES OF LETTERS WRITTEN DURING THE YEARS 1868-1880 BY WALT WHITMAN TO A YOUNG FRIEND (PETER DOYLE). Edited with an Introduction by [*18*] Richard Maurice Bucke M.D., One of Whitman's Literary Executors. Boston, Laurens Maynard, 1897. This is a copy of the regular issue of the first edition. Inscribed to "Clara Barrus from J. B." (John Burroughs). [5 ———— Another copy, Boston, Laurens Maynard, 1897. Special large paper issue. Paper label, with title in green ink. Illustrations on Japan vellum. Light green boards, with tan cloth back. Bookplate: Wm. F. Gable. This is number 30 of 35 copies signed by Dr. Bucke. [5 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. Including a Facsimile autobiography variorum readings of the poems and a department of Gathered Leaves. Philadelphia, David McKay, [1900]. [4 WHITMAN, WALT—POEMS . . . New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, [cI902]. Introduction by John Burroughs. This is a copy of the second issue containing "Drum Taps", which was omitted from the first issue. [4 WHITMAN, WALT—SELECTED POEMS OF WALT WHITMAN. Edited with introduction and notes by Julian W. Abernethy, Ph.D. Maynard's English Classic Series, No. 242. New York, Charles E. Merrill Co., [cI904]. [4 WHITMAN, WALT—AN AMERICAN PRIMER. With Facsimiles of the Original Manuscript. Edited by Horace Traubel. Boston, Small, Maynard & Company, 1904. First issue, bound in vellum boards. Uncut. The edition was limited to 500 copies, most of which were trimmed and bound in light blue cloth. This copy inscribed to Clara Barrus by T. B. Harned. [5 ———— Another copy, Boston, Small, Maynard & Company, 1904. Second issue of the Boston 1904 edition, in light blue cloth. Foreword signed by Horace Traubel. [5 WHITMAN, WALT—WALT WHITMAN'S DIARY IN CANADA, With Extracts from Other of His Diaries and Literary Note-books. Edited by William Sloane Kennedy. Boston, Small, Maynard & Company, 1904. Edition limited to 500 copies. This is a copy of the first issue, bound in vellum boards. Later issues are bound in blue cloth. Inscribed by the editor to Mrs. Frank J. Sprague in 1923. [5 [*19*]WHITMAN, WALT—LAFAYETTE IN BROOKLYN. With an introduction by John Burroughs. New York, George D. Smith, 1905. This edition was limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by the publisher, of which this is number 63, one of 235 which were printed on American handmade paper. There were also 15 on Imperial Japanese vellum. Letter of presentation attached, from the publisher to William F. Gable. [5 WHITMAN, WALT—THE BOOK OF HEAVENLY DEATH. Compiled from Leaves of Grass by Horace Traubel. Portland, Maine, Thomas B. Mosher, 1905. This is one of 450 copies bound in blue boards. There were also 50 copies numbered and bound in cream vellum boards. This copy was inscribed by Horace Traubel to Helen Campbell. [4 WHITMAN, WALT—PEARLS FROM WALT WHITMAN. Selected by F. E. Worland. London, C. W. Daniel Ltd., [1905]. Pearls from the Poets series, No. 6. [4 WHITMAN, WALT— . . . A LITTLE BOOK OF NATURE THOUGHTS. Selected by Anne Montgomerie Traubel. Portland, Maine, Thomas B. Mosher, 1906. Prose selections from Whitman. Signed by Clara Barrus. [4 WHITMAN, WALT—THE WISDOM OF WALT WHITMAN. New York, Brentano's, 1908. Edited by Laurens Maynard. [4 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. London, New York, Toronto & Melbourne, Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1909. Inscribed by Henry S. Saunders to Mrs. Sprague. [4 WHITMAN, WALT—POEMS . . . Selected and edited by William Michael Rossetti. Fine-paper edition with a portrait. London, Chatto & Windus, 1911. Reprint of the Hotten edition of 1868. Bookplate: William F. Gable. [4 WHITMAN, WALT—THE ROLLING EARTH. Outdoor Scenes and Thoughts from the Writings . . . Compiled by Waldo R. Browne, with an Introduction by John Burroughs. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. Inscribed by the compiler to Clara Barrus and signed by Dr. Barrus. [4 [*20*] WHITMAN, WALT—[SELECTIONS, ETC.] In The Bibelot. Portland, Maine, Thomas B. Mosher, May, 1912; March, 1913; and August, 1914. [4 WHITMAN, WALT—POEMS FROM LEAVES OF GRASS. The coloured illustrations by Margaret C. Cook. London, J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1913 [1915]. [4 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. Complete [Authorized by the Executors]. New York, Mitchell Kennerley, 1914. First issue of this edition. [4 WHITMAN, WALT— . . . TWENTY-THREE POEMS. Selected by Gwen Williams, B. A. With Estimates by R. W. Emerson, R. L. Stevenson, etc. London, The Athenaeum Literature Department, [circa 1918]. At head of title: The Westminster Classics.—III [4 WHITMAN, WALT—WALT WHITMAN'S POEMS. Girard, Kansas, Haldeman-Julius Company, [1918]. Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 73. Little Blue Books. This copy specially bound by Henry S. Saunders. [4 WHITMAN, WALT—THE GATHERING OF THE FORCES. Editorials, 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 Rodgers and John Black, With a Foreword and a Sketch of Whitman's Life and Work During Two Unknown Years. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1920. One of 250 sets, each in two volumes, issued in the Autumn of 1920. Inscribed by Cleveland Rodgers to Mrs. Sprague. [5 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS (I) & DEMOCRATIC VISTAS. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., [1921]. Everyman's Library. The first issue of this edition was published in 1912. Introduction by Horace Traubel. [4 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. New York, The Modern Library, [1921]. With introduction by Carl Sandburg. [4 [*21*]WHITMAN, WALT—THE UNCOLLECTED POETRY AND PROSE OF WALT WHITMAN much of which has been but recently discovered with various early manuscripts now first published. Collected and Edited by Emory Holloway. In Two Volumes. Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921. Inscribed by the editor to Mrs. Sprague. [5 WHITMAN, WALT—[LITTLE BLUE BOOKS]. Girard, Kansas, Haldeman-Julius, [1921-1925]. Five books bound together: ". . . Walt Whitman's Poems" (People's Pocket Series, No. 73); ". . . Poems of Walt Whitman" (Little Blue Book, No. 73); ". . . Prose Nature Notes" (Ten Cent Pocket Series, No. 299); ". . . Memories of Lincoln" (Ten Cent Pocket Series, No. 351); ". . . Walt Whitman: Bard of the West" (Little Blue Book, No. 529). [4 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924. Inclusive edition, edited by Emory Holloway. [4 WHITMAN, WALT—CRITICISM. An Unpublished Essay. Troutbeck Leaflets, Number Two. Privately printed at the Troutbeck Press, Amenia, New York, Christmas, 1924. Of this edition 200 copies were printed, as a Christmas greeting to the friends of Amy E. and J. E. Spingarn. Prefatory note by J. E. Spingarn. A privately printed edition of 100 copies was brought out for its members by the Carteret Book Club, of Newark, New Jersey, in 1913. [5 SMITH, LANGDON— . . . POEMS OF EVOLUTION. Langdon Smith and others. Girard, Kansas, Haldeman-Julius Company, [1924]. Little Blue Book No. 71. Contains an excerpt from "The Song of Myself". [4 WHITMAN,WALT—TWO PREFACES. The original preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855, and A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads, 1888, with an introductory note by Christopher Morley. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Two copies, one with original dust wrapper. [5 WHITMAN, WALT—[SELECTIONS]. The Augustan Books of Modern Poetry. London, Ernest Benn. No date. Inscribed to Mrs. Sprague by Henry S. Saunders, Dec. 1926. [4 WHITMAN,WALT—[SELECTIONS]. The Pamphlet Poets. New York, Simon & Schuster, [cI926]. Preface by Louis Untermeyer. [4 [*22*] WHITMAN, WALT—PICTURES. An Unpublished Poem of Walt Whitman. With an Introduction and Notes by Emory Holloway. New York, The June House, 1927. [4 WHITMAN, WALT—RIVULETS OF PROSE. Critical Essays by Walt Whitman. Edited by Carolyn Wells & Alfred F. Goldsmith. New York, Greenberg, 1928. [5 WHITMAN, WALT—WALT WHITMAN'S WORKSHOP. A Collection of Unpublished Manuscripts. Edited With an Introduction and Notes by Clifton Joseph Furness. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1928. Inscribed by the editor to Mrs. Sprague, Feb. 16, 1929. [5 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. With an Introduction by Carolyn Wells. New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1929. 1,500 copies printed, each copy signed by the designer Frederic Warde. This is number 307, and is also signed by Carolyn Wells. [4 WHITMAN, WALT—A CHILD'S REMINISCENCE. Collected by Thomas O. Mabbott and Rollo G. Silver, With an Introduction and Notes. Seattle, University of Washington Book Store, 1930. Quarto. First version of "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking". "Of this book four hundred and seventy-five copies have been printed, and the type destroyed. This is copy number 70." The items were taken from a weekly literary journal entitled the New York Saturday Press. Contains in addition to Whitman's poem, an editorial criticism of "Leaves of Grass" written or inspired by him, a bitter criticism of this poem by the Cincinnati Commercial, and a list of criticisms, minor notes, parodies and letters relating to him. [4 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS, Comprising all the poems written by Walt Whitman following the arrangement of the edition of 1891-'2. New York, Random House, Inc., [The Grabhorn Press], 1930. Quarto. Oak boards. One of the "Fifty Books of the Year". Said by many to be the handsomest book ever printed in America. 400 copies printed, of which this is number 193. [4 WHITMAN, WALT—I SIT AND LOOK OUT. Editorials from the Brooklyn Daily Times by Walt Whitman. Selected and Edited by Emory Holloway and Vernolian Schwarz. New York, Columbia University Press, 1932. Inscribed by the editor to Mrs. Sprague. [5 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. New York, For the Members of the Heritage Club, [c1937]. [4 [*23*]WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF MUSIC BY WALT WHITMAN. From the Collection of Bella C. Landauer. Privately Printed, 1937. One of 60 copies printed. Inscribed by Ruth S. Granniss (to whom the book was dedicated) to Mrs. Sprague. A bibliography of musical compositions based on poems by Whitman. [5 WHITMAN, WALT—WALT WHITMAN IN CAMDEN. A Selection of Prose from Specimen Days With a Preface by Christopher Morley and Photographs by Arnold Genthe. Camden, The Haddon Craftsmen, 1938 [5 WHITMAN, WALT—LEAVES OF GRASS. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company. No date. A selection from "Leaves of Grass", date unknown, unrecorded in principal Whitman bibliographies. Green cloth, iv, 60 p.; duodecimo [4 WHITMAN, WALT—PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT. Signed: "Walt Whitman, Camden, New Jersey, July 1877". Framed. [4 GRIFFES, CHARLES T.—"SALUT au MONDE", A Festival Arranged from the Poem by Walt Whitman, With Music Specially Composed For It. In the program of performance at The Neighborhood Playhouse of the Henry St. Settlement, New York, April 22, 1922. [5 HARTY, HAMILTON—THE MYSTIC TRUMPETER. In the program, Eaton Choral Society, Massey Hall, Toronto, Ontario, March 14, 1928. A dramatic musical setting of Whitman's poem of the same title. [5 BLOCH, ERNEST—AMERICA, An Epic Rhapsody in three parts, For Orchestra. In the programs: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Exposition Auditorium, December 20, 1928, 8:20 P. M.; Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Carnegie Hall, December 20, 1928, 2:30 P. M. December 21, 1928, 8:30 P.M.; Boston Symphony Orchestra, December 21, 1928, 2:30 P. M.; and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Ill., December 21, 1928, 2:15 P. M. December 22, 1928, 8:15 P. M. Dedicated to the memory of Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman. Based on Whitman's ideas and spirit. [5 [*24*] PITOT, GENEVIEVE—THREE MOVEMENTS FROM THE WALT WHITMAN CYCLE. In the program, New York, Theater Union, June 13, 1935. I. Salut au Monde; 2. Song of the Open Road; 3. I sing the Body Electric. Danced by Tamiris and her group. [5 PITOT, GENEVIEVE—SALUT AU MONDE. In the program, Federal Theater Works Progress Administration. New York Federal Dance Theater, July 16, 1936. Danced by Tamiris and her group of Federal dancers. [5 [*THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SEAL*] WALT WHITMAN AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN RICE, ALLEN THORNDIKE, ed.—REMINISCENCES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN BY DISTINGUISHED MEN OF HIS TIME. New York, North American Publishing Company, 1886. Includes the first appearance of essay on Lincoln by Whitman. [6 WHITMAN, WALT—THE WOUND DRESSER: A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington During the War of the Rebellion. Edited by Richard Maurice Bucke, M. D., One of Whitman's Literary Executors. Boston, Small, Maynard & Company, 1898. One of the earliest copies, having the publisher's device slightly off center. Four pages of advertisements laid in. Inscribed to Mrs. Sprague by T. B. Harned. Bookplate: T. B. Harned. [6 WHITMAN, WALT—THE WOUND DRESSER. Publisher's advertisement. Boston, Small, Maynard & Company, 1898. [6 WHITMAN, WALT—MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN: WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOM'D, O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN, HUSH'D BE THE CAMPS TODAY, THIS DUST WAS ONCE THE MAN. Portland, Maine, Thomas B. Mosher, 1912. This is one of 300 copies printed on Italian hand-made paper. Of this edition, a large octavo reprint of the 1906 Mosher edition, there were also 50 copies on vellum. [6 WHITMAN, WALT—MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND OTHER LYRICS OF THE WAR. Portland, Maine, Thomas B. Mosher, 1912. Second edition. One of 950 copies of this book printed on handmade paper [6 [*25*]WHITMAN, WALT—MEMORIES OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. New York, The Little Leather Library Corporation, [1916]. [6 WHITMAN, WALT—THE PATRIOTIC POEMS OF WALT WHITMAN. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918. Inscribed by Thomas B. Harned to Clara Barrus, and signed by her. [6 BARTON, WILLIAM E.—ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND WALT WHITMAN. Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [c1928]. Inscribed by the author to Mrs. Sprague. [6 WHITMAN, WALT—THE EIGHTEENTH PRESIDENCY! Voice of Walt Whitman to each Young Man in the Nation, North, South, East, and West. Paris, Tambour, [1928]. The preface, by Jean Catel, contemporary French Whitman scholar, tells of his discovering this unpublished campaign broadside. Inscribed by Catel to Mrs. Sprague. [6 GLICKSBERG, CHARLES, ed.—WALT WHITMAN AND THE CIVIL WAR. A collection of Original Articles and Manuscripts. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1933. Inscribed by the editor to Mrs. Sprague. [6 WHITMAN, WALT—LETTERS WRITTEN . . . TO HIS MOTHER, 1866-1872. New York, Alfred F. Goldsmith, 1936. Originally published by G. P. Putman's Sons, New York and London, 1902, in an edition of 5 copies. This reprint was issued in an edition of 325 copies, of which this is number 39. [6 WHITMAN, WALT—MEMORANDUM, in HIS AUTOGRAPH. Concerns the death of Benjamin G. Howell, at the Yorktown Hospital, during the Civil War. [6 WHITMAN, WALK—O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! Printed on card with portraits of Lincoln and Whitman. Text of poem from early version. [6 WHITMAN, WALT—[PROGRAM OF HIS LECTURE ON LINCOLN]. Held at Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Opera House, April 15, 1886. This program contains 'O Captain! My Captain!" [6 [*26*] COLLECTED PROSE AND POETRY WHITMAN, WALT—COMPLETE POEMS & PROSE. 1855 . . . 1888. Authenticated and Personal Book (handled by W. W.) . . . Portraits from Life . . . Autograph. [Philadelphia, Printed by Ferguson Bros. & Co., 1888]. This edition limited to 600 numbered copies, signed by Whitman, of which this is number 123. Bookplate: Carolyn Wells. [6 WHITMAN, WALT—COMPLETE PROSE WORKS. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1892. Bookplate: Isaac Hull Platt. [6 WHITMAN, WALT—PROSE WORKS. Philadelphia, David McKay. No date. Unlike the 1891 McKay edition, it does not contain "Good-Bye My Fancy" and "Some Laggards Yet". [6 WHITMAN, WALT—SELECTIONS FROM THE PROSE AND POETRY. Edited with an Introduction by Oscar Lovell Triggs, Ph. D. (The University of Chicago.) Boston, Small, Maynard & Company, 1898. [6 ESSAYS OF AMERICAN ESSAYISTS, Including Biographical and Critical Sketches. Revised Edition. New York, The Colonial Press, [c1900]. Contains the Preface to the first edition of "Leaves of Grass." There is a note signed H.S.S. (Henry S. Saunders): "This is same as in 'Complete Prose' not a verbatim reprint of the original." Bookplate: Henry S. Saunders. [6 WHITMAN, WALT—COMPLETE PROSE WORKS: Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Good Bye My Fancy. Boston, Small, Maynard & Company, 1901. Two copies—different frontispieces. One with frontispiece as in 1898 "Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Walt Whitman," inscribed "To Clara Barrus With Compliments of Thomas B. Harned, Dec 11.04". The frontispiece portrait shows Whitman younger, wearing Byronic collar. [6 WHITMAN, WALT—THE COMPLETE WRITINGS OF WALT WHITMAN. New York & London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, [1902]. Ten volumes. Connoisseurs' Camden Edition, limited to 200 numbered sets, signed by the publisher, of which this is number 85. [7 [*27*]WHITMAN, WALT—COMPLETE PROSE WORKS. [Authorized by the Executors]. New York, Mitchell Kennerley, 1914. [6 WHITMAN, WALT—THE HALF-BREED AND OTHER STORIES. Now first collected by Thomas Ollive Mabbott. Woodcuts by Allen Lewis. New York, Columbia University Press, 1927. [6 HOLLOWAY, EMORY—WALT WHITMAN'S VISIT TO THE SHAKERS. In the Colophon, Part 13, 1933. Includes "Whitman's Notes on a Visit to the Shaker Community". There is a close affinity between the Shakers and the Quakers. Whitman's mother and grandmother were Quakers, and Whitman frequently used Quaker phrases in his writings. [6 WHITMAN, WALT—WALT WHITMAN, COMPLETE POETRY & SELECTED PROSE AND LETTERS. Edited by Emory Holloway. London, The Nonesuch Press, [1938]. Autographed by the editor. [6 Photographs WATER, G. W.—PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRODUCTION OF A PORTRAIT OF WHITMAN. Inscribed: "from a painting by 'Waters,' owned by T. B. Harned—made when W. W. was seeking health in the open at Timber Creek. T. B. Harned." This was in 1877. [6 MORSE, SIDNEY H.—PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRODUCTION OF PLASTER HEAD OF WHITMAN. With printed identification: "Print f'm plaster head—Walt Whitman in old age, f'm life—by S. H. Morse." Autograph note at bottom: "Original owned by T. B. Harned". [6 LETTERS AND MEMORABILIA OF LATER YEARS FRITZINGER, WARREN—FOUR AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED, TO J. JOHNSTON, 1891-92. They related to Whitman's last illness and death. Warren Fritzinger was Whitman's nurse. [7 [*28*] WHITMAN, WALT—PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT BY F. GUTEKUNST. Found in his home, 328 Mickle Street, Camden, New Jersey, at the time of his death, March 25, 1892. It was in the possession of Mary Davis, his housekeeper, until her death. Given to Elizabeth Leavitt Keller by Henry M. ("Harry") Fritzinger (the brother of Warren Fritzinger), and by Mrs. Keller to Mrs. Sprague. Both Mrs. Keller and Mr. Fritzinger nursed Whitman. [7 FRITZINGER, WARREN—AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO J. W. WALLACE, APRIL 12, 1892. Concerns Whitman's death. [7 DAVIS, MARY—AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO DR. BELL, MAY 16, 1906. Concerns a Whitman manuscript which she had found, among other items, stored in her cellar. This is the only letter from Mary Davis, Whitman's housekeeper, that Mrs. Sprague has ever seen. [7 ANTHOLOGIES CONTAINING WHITMAN'S WORKS LINTON, W. J., ed—POETRY OF AMERICA, Selections from One Hundred American Poets from 1776 to 1876. London, George Bell & Sons, 1878. Bohn's Standard Library. The frontispiece is a portrait of Whitman. Includes eight Whitman poems. Bookplate: Henry S. Saunders. [7 PAGE, CURTIS HIDDEN, ed.—THE CHIEF AMERICAN POETS. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, [c1905]. Contains many Whitman selections, a short biographical sketch and a bibliography. [7 MATTHEWS, BRANDER, ed.—THE OXFORD BOOK OF AMERICAN ESSAYS. New York, Oxford University Press, 1914. Includes the preface to the first edition of "Leaves of Grass". Inscribed by the editor to Mr. and Mrs. Sprague. [7 BRIGGS, WALLACE ALVIN, ed.—GREAT POEMS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. New York, Robert M. McBride & Company, 1927. Includes six Whitman poems. [*29*]VAN DOREN, MARK, ed.—AN ANTHOLOGY OF WORLD POETRY. New York, Albert & Charles Boni, 1928. Includes four Whitman poems. [7 AIKEN, CONRAD, ed.—AMERICAN POETRY, 1671-1928. New York, The Modern Library, [1929]. Includes nine Whitman poems. [7 KREYMBORG, ALFRED, ed.—AN ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN POETRY. New York, Tudor Publishing Co., [1935]. Includes ten Whitman poems. [7 UNTERMEYER, LOUIS, ed.—MODERN AMERICAN POETRY. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1936]. An article on Whitman, followed by nineteen of his poems, opens the book. [7 WALT WHITMAN AND WILLIAM MICHAEL ROSSETTI ROSSETTI, WILLIAM MICHAEL, ed.—AMERICAN POEMS. London, John Walker & Company, [1872]. Includes numerous Whitman poems. Blue leather. Bookplate: Henry S. Saunders. [7 ROSSETTI, WILLIAM MICHAEL—WALT WHITMAN CIRCULAR ISSUED BY ROSSETTI, MAY 20, 1876. Urges the purchase of Whitman's books in England, with a view to contributing to his literary income. Statements had recently appeared in the Athenaeum and Daily News regarding "Mr. Whitman's circumstances in life", and this circular was addressed to those concerned about his condition. [7 ROSSETTI, WILLIAM MICHAEL—EIGHT AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED, TO HERBERT GILCHRIST, 1885-1887. Refer to the English Edition of "Leaves of Grass". [7 [WHITMAN, WALT—ENGLISH SUBSCRIBERS TO A FUND FOR HIS RELIEF]. Photostat list which includes Oliver Elton, Henry James, R. Louis Stevenson, The Honorable Roden Noel, Havelock and Louie Ellis, Miss Violet Paget, John Addington Symonds, etc. [7 [*30*] WHITMAN, WALT—PHOTOSTAT OF AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO W. M. ROSSETTI, MAY 30, 1886. Thanks him for a remittance and gives an account of money received from England. [7 WHITMAN'S FRIENDS AND CHAMPIONS Books, Pamphlets, and Articles Published in Periodicals [O'CONNOR, WILLIAM DOUGLAS]—THE GOOD GRAY POET. A VINDICATION. New York, Bunce & Huntington, 1866. A copy of the rare pamphlet issued by O'Connor after the dismissal of Whitman from a clerkship of the Department of the Interior. Whitman was dismissed because of departmental disapproval of "Leaves of Grass". The name of the author does not appear on cover or title page, but there is the printed signature at the end: "William Douglas O'Connor, of Massachusetts". [8 BURROUGHS, JOHN—WALT WHITMAN AND HIS "DRUM TAPS." In The Galaxy, December 1, 1866. John Burroughs' copy, with notes by Clara Barrus, one of which reads, "The first appreciation of W. W. published in U. S. A. (Book reviews & O'Connor's vindication had, however, preceded it . . ." [8 BURROUGHS, JOHN—NOTES ON WALT WHITMAN, AS POET AND PERSON. First signature from the second edition, New York, J. S. Redfield, 1871, containing title page, preliminary pagination, etc. [9 BURROUGHS, JOHN—PART OF A SHEET OF GALLEY PROOF FROM HIS "NOTES ON WALT WHITMAN AS POET AND PERSON". With autograph notes by Burroughs and Clara Barrus. [9 BURROUGHS, JOHN—NOTES ON WALT WHITMAN AS POET AND PERSON. New York, American News Company, 1867. The "dumpy" edition, first issue of the first edition. John Burroughs' first book, and the first book about Whitman. Bookplate: Dante Gabriel Rossetti. [8 BURROUGHS, JOHN—NOTES ON WALT WHITMAN AS POET AND PERSON. New York, American News Company, 1867. Regular first edition, second issue. [8 [*31*][O'CONNOR, WILLIAM DOUGLAS]—THE CARPENTER. In Putnam's Monthly Magazine, January, 1868. With inscription, "To John Burroughs, this parable, by a friend, from a friend, and—perhaps—of a friend. A. W. D. (Dimock) The Happy Valley, May 6, 1916." With a note signed "C. B." (Clara Barrus). [8 BUCHANAN, ROBERT—DAVID GRAY, AND OTHER ESSAYS, CHIEFLY ON POETRY. London, Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1868. Contains an essay on Whitman. [10 BURROUGHS, JOHN—NOTES ON WALT WHITMAN AS POET AND PERSON. New York, J. S. Redfield, 1871. Second edition, brown cloth. This was Burroughs' personal copy, and it contains his autograph on the title page, given by him to Clara Barrus. Marginal notes throughout are by Burroughs as dictated to Dr. Barrus. [8 BURROUGHS, JOHN—NOTES ON WALT WHITMAN AS POET AND PERSON. New York, J. S. Redfield, 1871. Second edition. Two variants, blue and green cloth. Blue copy with bookplate of Carolyn Wells. Green copy with autograph of J. W. Wallace. [8 BUCKE, RICHARD MAURICE—MAN'S MORAL NATURE. An Essay. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, Toronto, Ont., Willing & Williamson, 1879. This book was dedicated to Whitman. [8 KENNEDY, WILLIAM SLOANE—A STUDY OF WALT WHITMAN. In The Californian (San Francisco), February, 1881. Excerpt. Autograph corrections by the author. [9 BUCKE, RICHARD MAURICE—WALT WHITMAN. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1883. Whitman edited this book, and wrote the first twenty-four pages. Bookplate: Isaac Hull Platt. [8 [ROBERTSON, JOHN]— . . . WALT WHITMAN, POET AND DEMOCRAT. Edinburgh, William Brown, 1884. The Round Table Series, No. IV. Regular first edition, green wrappers with brown lettering. The author's name does not appear on cover or title page, but is signed at the end. J. W. Wallace's autograph on title page. [10 [*32*] [ROBERTSON, JOHN]— . . . WALT WHITMAN, POET AND DEMOCRAT. Edinburgh, William Brown, 1884. The Round Table Series, No. IV. Edition limited to 100 copies of which this is number 69. In parchment cover. [10 WILKIE, JAMES—THE DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT IN LITERATURE. WALT WHITMAN. Cupar-Fife, In the "Fifeshire Journal" Office, 1886. J. W. Wallace's copy, containing the inscription, "With the author's compliments". [10 KENNEDY, W[ILLIA]M. SLOANE—THE POET AS A CRAFTSMAN. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1886. With autograph note by the author: "Set in type by my own hands in Cambridge, Mass.—W. S. K." [9 TRAUBEL, HORACE L., ed.—CAMDEN'S COMPLIMENT TO WALT WHITMAN, MAY 31, 1889. Notes, Addresses, Letters, Telegrams. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1889. Inscribed by J. Johnston to J. W. Wallace. [8 TRAUBEL, HORACE L., ed.—THE CONSERVATOR. Three issues, edited and published by Horace Traubel, and devoted almost entirely to Whitman: March, 1890 (first issue); April, 1892, and Supplemental— April, 1892. "At the Graveside of Walt Whitman" (issue immediately following Whitman's death); June, 1919 (final issue). [8 INGERSOLL, ROBERT G.[REEN]— . . . AN ORATION ON WALT WHITMAN. London, Progressive Publishing Company, 1890. Introduction states that this oration was "Delivered in the Horticultural Hall, New York, on October 21, 1890." It was actually delivered in Philadelphia. Bookplate: H. Buxton Forman. [10 INGERSOLL, ROBERT G.[REEN]—LIBERTY IN LITERATURE. TESTIMONIAL TO WALT WHITMAN. An address delivered in Philadelphia, Oct. 21, 1890. New York, Truth Seeker Company, [c1890]. Authorized edition. Includes address at funeral of Whitman bound in at back of book. From the library of H. Buxton Forman. Obviously the same speech as delivered in Horticultural Hall "New York" [i. e. Philadelphia] on same date. In the two versions Whitman's remarks at the end of the speech vary considerably in wording, though not in import. [10 [*33*]INGERSOLL, ROBERT G.[REEN]—TICKET TO THE WALT WHITMAN TESTIMONIAL LECTURE, by Robert G. Ingersoll, Philadelphia, Horticultural Hall, October 21, 1890. [10 JOHNSTON, JOHN— . . . NOTES OF VISIT TO WALT WHITMAN, ETC., IN JULY, 1890. Bolton, T. Brimelow & Co., printers, &c., 1890. At head of title: "Printed for private circulation". Tan wrappers. Regular first edition. [10 JOHNSTON, JOHN— . . . NOTES OF VISIT TO WALT WHITMAN, ETC., IN JULY 1890. Bolton, T. Brimelow & Co., printers, &c., 1890. Extra illustrated, bound in dark green leather, gilt lettering on front cover. Apparently specially bound. Inscribed by the author to J. W. Wallace. [10 TRAUBEL, HORACE L., ed.—AT THE GRAVESIDE OF WALT WHITMAN: HARLEIGH, CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY, MARCH 30TH. AND SPRIGS OF LILAC. 1892. Cover title: "Goodbye and Hail Walt Whitman". Numbered and signed by Traubel. This is number 351 of an edition of 750 copies. [8 O'CONNOR, WILLIAM DOUGLAS—THREE TALES: THE GHOST, THE BRAZEN ANDROID, THE CARPENTER. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1892. "The Carpenter", a story of Whitman, may be the forerunner of the symbolic plays, "The Passing of the Third Floor Back", and "The Servant in the House". [8 TRAUBEL, HORACE L., ed.—IN RE WALT WHITMAN: Edited by his Literary Executors, Horace L. Traubel, Richard Maurice Bucke, Thomas B. Harned. Philadelphia, Published by the Editors through David McKay, 1893. 1,000 copies were printed, of which this is number 2. They were all to be numbered, but many were not. This copy is bound upside down. Bookplate: T. B. Harned. Inscribed to Mrs. Sprague by Harned. [10 GAY, WILLIAM—WALT WHITMAN, THE POET OF DEMOCRACY. Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide, E. A. Petherick & Co., 1893. Inscribed to Isaac Hull Platt by W. H. Trimble. [10 [*34*] SYMONDS, JOHN ADDINGTON—WALT WHITMAN, A STUDY. London, John C. Nimmo, 1893. Green cloth boards, uncut. Note on flyleaf in Wallace's autograph: "J. W. Wallace. Received from Nimmo pro. J. A. Symonds 20. April. 1893 (J. A. S. died 19 April '93.)" [10 ——— Another copy, (Special large paper edition), London, John C. Nimmo, 1893. Limited to 208 copies, of which this is number 90. [10 BUCKE, RICHARD MAURICE—COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS: A Paper Read before the American Medico-Psychological Association in Philadelphia, 18 May, 1894. Philadelphia, The Conservator, 1894. [8 GAY, WILLIAM—WALT WHITMAN: HIS RELATION TO SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY: A paper read (by proxy) at the Meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science held at Brisbane in January 1895. Melbourne, Mason, Firth and M'Cutcheon, 1895. Paper cover. Inscribed by the author to John Burroughs. [10 BURROUGHS, JOHN—WHITMAN, A STUDY. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896. First edition. Olive and green cloth. Inscribed by Anne and Horace Traubel to J. W. Wallace. [9 BURROUGHS, JOHN—WHITMAN, A STUDY. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896. Volume 10 in The Writings of John Burroughs, the Riverside Edition. Special limited edition with paper label. First edition. Uncut. Green buckram. [9 BURROUGHS, JOHN—WHITMAN, A STUDY. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896. Volume 10 in The Writings of John Burroughs, the Riverside Edition, limited to 1,000 sets. Uncut. [9 KENNEDY, WILLIAM SLOANE—REMINISCENCES OF WALT WHITMAN, with extracts from his letters and remarks on his writings. London, Alexander Gardner, 1896. First English edition. Red cloth. This is apparently a variant; the regular first edition was bound in brown cloth. [9 [*35*]——— Another copy, London, Alexander Gardner, 1896. Label of David McKay on title page. This copy bears a two-page inscription from the author to J. W. Wallace at the request of Horace Traubel, and an inscription from Anne Montgomerie Traubel and Horace L. Traubel to Wallace. [9 ——— Another copy, London, Alexander Gardner, 1896. Contains an inscription from the author to Mrs. Sprague. Yellow and brown cloth. Top cut and gilt. Apparently another variant. [9 DONALDSON, THOMAS—WALT WHITMAN, THE MAN. New York, Francis P. Harper, 1896. Red Cloth. First issue, same year, was in green cloth. This copy belonged to William F. Gable and contains his autograph. [10 DONALDSON, THOMAS—WALT WHITMAN, THE MAN. London, Gay & Bird, 1897. Second English edition. J. W. Wallace's copy. [10 [WHITMAN, WALT]—WALT WHITMAN AT HOME. By Himself. New York, The Critic Co., 1898. [10 JOHNSTON, JOHN—DIARY NOTES OF VISIT TO WALT WHITMAN AND SOME OF HIS FRIENDS, IN 1890. With a series of original photographs. Manchester, The Labour Press Limited, London, The "Clarion" Office, 1898. Inscribed by the author to J. W. Wallace. [10 WHITMAN, WALT—NOTES AND FRAGMENTS: Left by Walt Whitman and now Edited by Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke, . . . Printed for Private Distribution Only, 1899. Printed for the editor by A. Talbot & Co., London, Ontario, Canada. Edition limited to 225 copies, of which this is number 20. Autographed by the editor. [8 BUCKE, RICHARD MAURICE—COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind. Philadelphia, Innes & Sons, 1901. Inscribed by Elbert Hubbard to John Burroughs, and by Burroughs to Clara Barrus. Signed by the author. This is number 354 of 500 numbered copies. [8 [*36*] GILDER, J. L., and J. B. GILDER, eds.—AUTHORS AT HOME . . . New York, A. Wessels Company, 1902. Contains an article written by Whitman and published in the Critic Magazine, February, 1885, as "Walt Whitman in Camden, by George Selwyn". In this reprint it is still attributed to Selwyn. [10 BURROUGHS, JOHN—BIRDS AND POETS, WITH OTHER PAPERS. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903. With the author's autograph. [9 IRWIN, MABEL MACCOY—WHITMAN, THE POET-LIBERATOR OF WOMAN. New York, Published by the Author, 1905. Inscribed by the author to Mrs. Sprague. [10 COYNE, JAMES H.— . . . RICHARD MAURICE BUCKE—A SKETCH. 1906. From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. Second series, 1906-1907. Inscribed by the author. [8 TRAUBEL, HORACE [L.]—WITH WALT WHITMAN IN CAMDEN (MARCH 28–JULY 14, 1888). Boston, Small, Maynard & Company, 1906. This volume and the two listed below form a three volume study. Inscribed by Thomas B. Harned to Clara Barrus, with autographed portrait of John Burroughs. Marginal notes by Clara Barrus. [8 TRAUBEL, HORACE [L.]—WITH WALT WHITMAN IN CAMDEN (JULY 16, 1888–OCTOBER 31, 1888). New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1908. Inscribed by the author to J. W. Wallace. [8 TRAUBEL, HORACE [L.]—WITH WALT WHITMAN IN CAMDEN (MARCH 28–JULY 14, 1888), (NOVEMBER 1, 1888–JANUARY 20, 1889). New York, Mitchell Kennerley, 1914. Inscribed by the author to J. W. Wallace [8 KELLER, ELIZABETH LEAVITT—WALT WHITMAN: THE LAST PHASE. From Putnam's Magazine, June, 1909. Includes Whitman's poem, "The Soul". [10 JOHNSTON, J.[OHN]—WALT WHITMAN, THE POET OF NATURE. London, Chapman and Hall, Ltd., [1910]. Reprint from "The Fortnightly Review", June 1910. Inscribed by the author to John Burroughs. [10 [*37*]NOYES, CARLETON—AN APPROACH TO WALT WHITMAN. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1910. Inscribed by T. B Harned to Clara Barrus, with her signature on the title page. [10 THOMPSON, JAMES ("B. V. ")—WALT WHITMAN, THE MAN AND THE POET, with an introduction by Bertram Dobell. London, [Bertram Dobell], 1910. Gray wrappers, one of the two variants of the first edition. [10 — Another copy, London, [Bertram Dobell], 1910. In blue cloth, other variant of first edition. J. W. Wallace's copy, with his autograph. [10 TRIMBLE, ANNIE E.—WALT WHITMAN AND MENTAL SCIENCE, An Interview. [Melbourne, The Specialty Press Pty., Ltd., 1911]. Edition limited to 200 copies of which this is number 190. Signed by W. H. Trimble. {10 SYMONDS, JOHN ADDINGTON—WALT WHITMAN, A STUDY. London, George Routledge & Sons, Limited, New York, E. R. Dutton & Co., [1915]. A popular edition. [10 WALLING, WILLIAM ENGLISH—WHITMAN AND TRAUBEL. New York, Albert and Charles Boni, 1916. From the Library of Wm. F. Gable. This copy contains a three page inscription to Gable from Traubel, and one page from the author. [8 JOHNSTON, JOHN, and J. W. WALLACE—VISITS TO WALT WHITMAN IN 1890-1891. By Two Lancashire Friends. London, George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., [1917]. First English edition with inscription to John Burroughs from the authors; also inscribed by Burroughs to Clara Barrus. This copy contains John Burroughs' notes dictated to Clara Barrus. [10 JOHNSTON, JOHN, and J. W. WALLACE—VISITS TO WALT WHITMAN IN 1890-1891. By Two Lancashire Friends. New York, Egmont Arens, 1918. Pencilled note in back of book: "300 only printed in England with Arens imprint—of these all but 90 were sunk by submarine." Original dust wrappers. [10 [*38*] BURROUGHS, JOHN —ACCEPTING THE UNIVERSE. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920. The author's last book. Published posthumously. Chapter XV (p. 316- [328]), entitled "The Poet of the Cosmos", is devoted to Whitman. [9 KELLER, ELIZABETH LEAVITT—WALT WHITMAN IN MICKLE STREET. New York, Mitchell Kennerley, 1921. Inscribed by the author to Mrs. Sprague. [10 HIER, FREDERICK P., JR. —THE END OF A LITERARY MYSTERY. In the American Mercury, April, 1924. Numerous marginal notes in the autograph of Clara Barrus, contradicting statements by Hier. This article asserts that Whitman wrote "Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person", or at least the major part of it. [8 KENNEDY, WILLIAM SLOANE—THE REAL JOHN BURROUGHS; Personal Recollection and Friendly Estimate. New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1924. [9 BARRUS, CLARA—THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF JOHN BURROUGHS. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1925. Two volumes. Inscribed to Mrs. Sprague by the author. [9 KENNEDY, W[ILLIAM]. SLOANE—THE FIGHT OF A BOOK FOR THE WORLD; a Companion Volume to Leaves of Grass. West Yarmouth, Mass., The Stonecroft Press, 1926. Inscribed to Mrs. Sprague by the author. [9 — Another copy, West Yarmouth, Mass., The Stonecroft Press, 1926. The first of seven copies specially bound. Inscribed to Mrs. Sprague by the author. Contains a two page autograph letter from Whitman to Kennedy about Emerson. [9 KENNEDY, W[ILLIA]M. SLOANE—THE FIGHT OF A BOOK FOR THE WORLD, A Companion Volume to —"Leaves of Grass." Publisher's advertisement, Wets Yarmouth, Mass., The Stonecroft Press, 1926. [9 FREND, GRACE GILCHRIST—WALT WHITMAN AS I REMEMBER HIM. In The Bookman, London, July, 1927. [10 [*39*]KENNEDY, WILLIAM SLOANE—AN AUTOLYCUS PACK, OR, WHAT YOU WILL. West Yarmouth, Mass., The Stonecroft Press, 1927. [9 O'CONNOR, WILLIAM DOUGLAS—THE GOOD GRAY POET. A Vindication. Toronto, Henry S. Saunders, 1927. Reprint. Edition limited to 125 copies, of which this is number 1. Inscribed by Henry S. Saunders. [8 NORTON, CHARLES ELIOT—A LEAF OF GRASS FROM SHADY HILL, With a review of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Written by Charles Eliot Norton in 1855. [Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1928]. [10 BARRUS, CLARA—WHITMAN AND BURROUGHS, COMRADES. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. [9 Letters BURROUGHS, JOHN—AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO "DEAR WALT", Feb. 25, 1883. Concerns an invitation for the 22d extended by Whitman's Quaker friends. Burroughs also speaks of the illness of his wife. [9 BURROUGHS, JOHN—TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED, TO HERBERT GILCHRIST, Apr. 25, 1883, and Feb. 17, 1886. [9 O'CONNOR, W.[ILLIAM] D.[OUGLAS]—AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO WILLIAM SLOANE KENNEDY, Apr. 9, 1886. Concerns the Whitman scrapbook, which O'Connor kept. [8 M.[ORSE], S.[IDNEY] H.—AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO WILLIAM SLOANE KENNEDY, Aug. 11, 1886. In verse. [9 RHYS, ERNEST—AUTOGRAPH LETTER INITIALED, TO WILLIAM SLOANE KENNEDY, DEC. 7, 1886. Concerns future publication of Kennedy's writings on Whitman. [9 SYMONDS, JOHN ADDINGTON—AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO WILLIAM SLOANE KENNEDY, AUG. 2, 1887. Discusses Kennedy's projected book about Whitman. [10 [*40*] WHITMAN, WALT—AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, WITH ENVELOPE, TO WILLIAM SLOANE KENNEDY, OCT. 25, 1888. Note is enclosed from William Douglas O'Connor to Dr. Bucke, Oct. 20, 1888. [9 BUCKE, R.[ICHARD] M.[AURICE]—AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO T. B. HARNED, JUNE 9, 1889. Refers to speeches delivered at a Whitman banquet. [10 WHITMAN, WALT—AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO WILLIAM SLOANE KENNEDY, AUG. 8, 1890. Concerns Whitman's illness. [9 WHITMAN, WALT—FACSIMILE OF AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO DR. JOHN JOHNSTON, JUNE 1, 1891. [10 BURROUGHS, JOHN—AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO WALDO R. BROWNE, WITH A CARD IN THE AUTOGRAPH OF CLARA BARRUS. The card states that this letter served as introduction to "The Rolling Earth" (1912). Dated by Clara Barrus, Sept., 1911, Roxbury, New York. [9 HARNED, THOMAS B.—AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO MRS. SPRAGUE, MAY 24, 1919. Encloses Whitman manuscript, and offers to give her a first edition of "November Boughs" and some pictures. [10 TRAUBEL, HORACE L.—AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO T. B. HARNED, AUG. 29, 1919. Traubel's last letter. [10 HARNED, THOMAS B.—AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO MRS. SPRAGUE, MAY 24, 1920. Estimates the value of the contributions of various biographers of Whitman. [10 HARNED, T.[HOMAS] B.—AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO WILLIAM SLOANE KENNEDY, JAN. 24, 1921. Concerns publication of Traubel's "With W. W. in Camden". [9 KENNEDY, W.[ILLIAM] S.[LOANE]—TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED, TO "DEAR FRIEND", JUNE 25, 1926. Concern the publication of "The Fight of a Book for the World". [9 GARLAND, HAMLIN—AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO T. B. HARNED, "JUNE 24". Mentions the "Butterfly photograph" of Whitman. [10 [*41*]Miscellany KENNEDY, WILLIAM SLOANE—AUTOGRAPH NOTES, NOV. 29, 1884. Concern Richard Maurice Bucke. [9 BURROUGHS, JOHN—AUTOGRAPH POST CARD SIGNED "J. B." TO WILLIAM SLOANE KENNEDY, JULY 4, 1888. Concerns Whitman's health. [9 KENNEDY, WILLIAM SLOANE—AUTOGRAPH NOTES FROM CONVERSATIONS WITH MRS. WILLIAM D. O'CONNOR, OCT. 5, 1889. [9 TRAUBEL, HORACE L.—PROOFSHEETS OF ACCOUNT OF WHITMAN'S BIRTHDAY, MAY 31, 1891. Inscribed by the author to T. B. Harned, and by Harned to Mrs. Sprague. [8 WHITMAN, WALT—"WHEN THE PSALM SINGS INSTEAD OF THE SINGER, ETC." East Aurora, New York, Roycroft Shop. No date. A broadside. [10 Photographs WHITMAN, WALT—PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT, IN OLD AGE, AUTOGRAPHED. Autograph note by T. B. Harned identifying photograph and signature. [10 WHITMAN, WALT—PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT. Taken during his last illness. [10 BUCKE, RICHARD MAURICE—PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT. Made in 1894 by James M. Dodge, son of Mary Mapes Dodge. [8 BUCKE, RICHARD MAURICE—REPRODUCTION OF A PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT. [8 HARNED, THOMAS B.—REPRODUCTION OF A PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT. Autographed, 1902. [10 [*42*] HARNED, THOMAS B., and JOHN BURROUGHS—PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRODUCTION OF HARNED WITH BURROUGHS, MAY, 1917. Autographed by Harned. [9 KENNEDY, WILLIAM SLOANE—REPRODUCTION OF A PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT, 1912. Inscribed to Mrs. Frank J. Sprague, 1922. [9 BOOKS, ARTICLES, ETC., ABOUT WHITMAN [Including Biographies] SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES—SONGS BEFORE SUNRISE. A new edition. London, Chatto and Windus, 1875. Contains poem: "To Walt Whitman in America". This was Edward Lear's copy, with his autograph. [11 TWENTY MODERN MEN—FROM THE NATIONAL OBSERVER. London, Edward Arnold, 1891. Contains brief essay on Whitman. Inscribed to Mrs. Sprague by Brander Matthews. [11 CLARKE, WILLIAM—WALT WHITMAN. London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., New York, Macmillan & Co., 1892. American edition. [13 HOLMES, EDMOND—WALT WHITMAN'S POETRY. A Study & A Selection. London & New York, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1902. [13 TRIGGS, OSCAR L.[OVELL]—BROWNING AND WHITMAN: A Study in Democracy. London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., New York, Macmillan & Co., 1893. [13 [HARTMANN], SADAKICHI—CONVERSATIONS WITH WALT WHITMAN. Written in 1894. New York, E. P. Coby & Co., 1895. Autograph signature on title page: "Sadakichi Hartmann". [14 GOSSE, EDMUND—CRITICAL KIT-KATS. London, William Heinemann, 1896. Contains essay entitled "Walt Whitman". [14 [*43*]HUBBARD, ELBERT—LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF AMERICAN AUTHORS. WALT WHITMAN. New York and London, G.P. Putnam's Sons, June, 1896. [11 GUTHRIE, WILLIAM NORMAN—WALT WHITMAN (THE CAMDEN SAGE) AS RELIGIOUS AND MORAL TEACHER. A Study. Cincinnati, The Robert Clarke Company, 1897. This is number 4 of an edition of 100 copies. Dr. Bucke's copy. Autographed for Mrs. Sprague by the author. [14 DARROW, CLARENCE S.—A PERSIAN PEARL: and Other Essays. East Aurora, New York, The Roycroft Shop, 1899. Contains essay entitled "Walt Whitman". Of this edition 980 copies were printed, of which this is number 788. From the Harris Collection. [14 SALTER, W.[ILLIA]M M.[ACKINTIRE]—... THE GREAT SIDE OF WALT WHITMAN. Philadelphia, S. Burns Weston, 1899. Title from cover. At head of cover title: Ethical Addresses, September, 1899. [11 SALTER, WILLIAM. MACKINTIRE—WALT WHITMAN. TWO ADDRESSES. Philadelphia, S. Burns Weston, 1899. "The Great Side of Walt Whitman", and "The Questionable Side of Walt Whitman". Inscribed to J. W. Wallace by Horace Traubel. [13 STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS—THE ESSAY ON WALT WHITMAN. With a Little Journey to the Home of Whitman, by Elbert Hubbard. [East Aurora], The Roycroft Shop, 1900. [11 BORN, HELENA—WHITMAN'S IDEAL DEMOCRACY, AND OTHER WRITINGS. With a biography by the editor, Helen Tufts. Boston, Mass., printed at the Everett Press, May 11, 1902. This copy contains printed note: "Edition limited to five hundred copies, of which this is number ———." [13 TROWBRIDGE, JOHN TOWNSEND—REMINISCENCES OF WALT WHITMAN. In The Atlantic Monthly, February, 1902. Inscribed by Horace Traubel to J. W. Wallace. [11 MAYNARD, MILA TUPPER—WALT WHITMAN, THE POET OF THE WIDER SELFHOOD. Chicago, Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1903. [12 [*44*] DODGE, MARY MAPES—POEMS AND VERSES. New York, The Century Co., 1904. First edition. Includes "The Two Mysteries", a poem based on an anecdote about Whitman, often mistakenly attributed to him. Bookplate: Carolyn Wells. [12 PLATT, ISAAC HULL—WALT WHITMAN. Boston, Small, Maynard & Company, 1904. The Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans. Edited by M. A. DeWolfe Howe. This copy is in green cloth. The regular first edition was in blue, and variants have been noted in paper wrappers and in limp leather. [11 WALLACE, HENRY—WALT WHITMAN: SEER. A Brief Study. London and Newcastle-on-Tyne, New York, The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd., 1904. Two copies. One contains bookplate: William F. Gable. [11 BINNS, HENRY BRYAN—A LIFE OF WALT WHITMAN. London, Methuen & Co., [1905]. Inscribed to J. W. Wallace by J. Johnston. [11 SANTAYANA, GEORGE—INTERPRETATIONS OF POETRY AND RELIGION. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. Deals with Whitman in chapter entitled "The Poetry of Barbarism". Bookplate: Henry S. Saunders. [13 TRIMBLE, W. H.—WALT WHITMAN AND LEAVES OF GRASS. An Introduction. London, Watts & Co., 1905. This copy is inscribed to John Burroughs by the author. A letter from Trimble to Burroughs, Oct. 26, 1908, accompanies it. [12 CARPENTER, EDWARD—DAYS WITH WALT WHITMAN, WITH SOME NOTES ON HIS LIFE AND WORK. London, George Allen, 1906. Inscribed by the author to Helen Campbell. [13 PERRY, BLISS—WALT WHITMAN, HIS LIFE AND WORKS. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906. First American edition, first impression. This was John Burroughs' copy sent him by Perry, and in turn given by him to Clara Barrus, whose signature appears on front end paper. Dr. Barrus gave it to Mrs. Sprague. There are numerous marginal notes by Dr. Barrus. A letter from Bliss Perry to John Burroughs is mounted in the back. [11 RICKETT, ARTHUR—THE VAGABOND IN LITERATURE. With six portraits. London, J. M. Dent & Co., New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1906. Studies of six "vagabonds", one of whom is Whitman. [12 [*45*]PERRY, BLISS—WALT WHITMAN, HIS LIFE AND WORK. London, Archibald Constable & Co., Ltd., Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1906. First English edition, limited to 250 copies. [11 PERRY, BLISS—WALT WHITMAN, HIS LIFE AND WORK. Second edition, revised. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, [1908]. Red cloth. Bookplate: Isaac Hull Platt. [11 HARTLEY, L. CONRAD—THE SPIRIT OF WALT WHITMAN. (A Psychological Study in Blank Verse.) Manchester, J. E. Cornish Ltd., 1908. Inscribed by Dr. John Johnston to J. W. Wallace. [13 CARPENTER, GEORGE RICE— . . . WALT WHITMAN. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1909. English Men of Letters series. [13 BURTON, RICHARD—LITERARY LEADERS OF AMERICA, a ClassBook on American Literature. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. Contains chapter entitled "Whitman". Bookplate: Henry S. Saunders. [13 MATTHEWS, BRANDER—A STUDY OF VERSIFICATION. Boston, New York, and Chicago, Houghton Mifflin Company, [c1911]. Brief mention on page 198 in chapter on "Rimeless Stanzas", quoting Stedman in appreciation of the verse technique invented and perfected by Whitman. [14 CLARE, MAURICE—A DAY WITH WALT WHITMAN. London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1912]. Inscribed by Horace Traubel to William F. Gable. [11 GUTHRIE, WILLIAM NORMAN—THE VITAL STUDY OF LITERATURE AND OTHER ESSAYS. Chicago, Charles H. Sergel & Company, [c1912]. Chapter on Whitman entitled "Walt Whitman, the Poetic Artist". Inscribed by the author to Mrs. Sprague. [14 TRIGGS, OSCAR LOVELL—THE CHANGING ORDER, A Study of Democracy. Chicago, Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1913. Chapter on Whitman entitled "The Philosophic and Religious Ground: Walt Whitman", Bookplate: Henry S. Saunders. [14 [*46*] DE SELINCOURT, BASIL—WALT WHITMAN. A CRITICAL STUDY. London, Martin Secker, 1914. [12 BINNS, HENRY BRYAN—WALT WHITMAN & HIS POETRY. London, George G. Harrap & Company, 1915. Poetry and Life Series. Regular first edition. [13 POWYS, JOHN COWPER—VISIONS AND REVISIONS, A Book of Literary Devotions. New York, G. Arnold Shaw, 1915. Last chapter entitled "Walt Whitman". [12 ELLIOT, CHARLES N.[ATHAN], comp.— . . . WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND. Being autograph pages from many pens, collected by Charles N. Elliot. Boston, Richard G. Badger, [1915]. First edition. 500 numbered copies of which this is number 58. Inscribed to Clara Barrus by Elliot, and with the signature of Dr. Barrus. [11 LEGLER, HENRY EDUARD—WALT WHITMAN YESTERDAY & TODAY. Chicago, Brothers of the Book, 1916. 600 copies of this book were printed, of which this is number 47, and the type distributed. [14 BROWN, WILLIAM THURSTON—WALT WHITMAN: POET OF THE HUMAN WHOLE. Portland, Oregon "The Modern School", [1917]. Inscribed to Mrs. Sprague by Henry S. Saunders. [14 THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. In Three Volumes. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, Cambridge, England, University Press, 1918. Volume two: contains a chapter entitled "Whitman" by Emory Holloway, and a Whitman bibliography. [13 BEERS, HENRY A.—FOUR AMERICANS: ROOSEVELT, HAWTHORNE, EMERSON, WHITMAN. New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1919. [14 FRANK, WALDO—OUR AMERICA. New York, Boni and Liveright, [c1919]. Contains a chapter entitled " The Multitudes in Whitman". [14 [*47*]ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON—THE CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT. A Book of Poems. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919. Contains "Walt Whitman", a poem which first appeared in Robinson's first book, "The Torrent and The Night Before", 1896. The copy was inscribed by Robinson to John Drinkwater. Bookplate: John Drinkwater. [11 WALLACE, J. W.—THE LETTERS OF ANNE GILCHRIST AND WALT WHITMAN. In The Modern School (Walt Whitman Number) April-May, 1919. Includes an extract from Wallace's letter of March 19, 1919, to Dr. Barrus. The original letter is displayed in this case. [12 BURROUGHS, JOHN, and RICHARD WATSON GILDER— LETTERS ABOUT WHITMAN... In another copy of The Modern School (Walt Whitman Number) April-May, 1919. [12 WALLACE, J. W.—WALT WHITMAN AND THE WORLD CRISIS. Manchester and London, The National Labour Press, [1920]. [11 HAYES, WILL—WALT WHITMAN, THE PROPHET OF THE NEW ERA. London, C. W. Daniel, Ltd., [1920 or 1921]. [13 MATHEWS, GODFREY W.—WALT WHITMAN. Being the Sub- stance of Three Lectures Delivered to the Liscard Adult School. Liverpool, 'Daily Post Printers, 1921. [14 NOGUCHI, YONÉ—JAPAN AND AMERICA. Tokyo, Keio uni- versity Press, New York, Orientalia, 1921. Contains numerous references to Whitman. [14 OVERTON, GRANT—THE ANSWERER. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921. A novel based on Whitman's life. [12 SAUNDERS, HENRY S.—PARODIES ON WALT WHITMAN. Com- piled by Henry S. Saunders. Preface by Christopher Morley. New York, American Library Service, 1923. Inscribed to Mrs. Sprague by the compiler. [13 [*48*] PHELPS, WILLIAM LYON—THE POETRY OF WALT WHITMAN. New York, Macmillan Company, 1924. An essay, the second in Professor Phelps' volume, "Howells, James, Bryant and Other Essays", reprinted as a separate. [12 WHARTON, EDITH—OLD NEW YORK. [Vol.3] the spark (THE 'SIXTIES). New York, London, D. Appleton and Company, 1924. Refers, on page seventy, to Whitman in the Washington hospitals during the civil war. [13 MACY, JOHN—THE STORY OF THE WORLD'S LITERATURE. Illustrated by Onorio Ruotolo. New York, Boni & Liveright, [1925]. Contains a section on Whitman in chapter on American poetry. Includes the remark, "After Whitman most American verse is an anti-climax." [12 BAILEY, JOHN—WALT WHITMAN. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1926. English Men of Letters series. [13 HOLLOWAY, EMORY—WHITMAN, AN INTERPRETATION IN NARRATIVE. New York & London, Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. This book won the Pulitzer prize for Biography in 1926. Inscribed to Mrs. Sprague by th author. [11 MUMFORD, LEWIS—THE GOLDEN DAY. A Study in American Experience and Culture. New York, Boni and Liveright, 1926. References to Whitman on pp. 121 and 137 in chapter entitled "High Noon". [14 ROGERS, CAMERON—THE MAGNIFICENT IDLER. The Story of Walt Whitman. Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, Page & Com- pany, 1926. One of the "Fifty Books of the Year" for 1927. [12 GISSING, GEORGE—THYRZA. A TALE. London, Eveleigh Nash & Grayson, Limited, 1927. Introduction explains the strong influence of Whitman on Gissing in writing this novel. [14 MITCHELL, LANGDON—UNDERSTANDING AMERICA. New York, George H. Doran Company, [c1927]. Contains essay entitled "Walt Whitman". Oliver Herford's copy, with author's card containing autograph inscription. Autograph signature of Herford. [11 [*49*] CLARK, BARRETT H., ed.—GREAT SHORT BIOGRAPHIES OF THE WORLD. A Collection of Short Biographies, Literary Portraits, and Memoirs, Chosen from the Literatures of the Ancient and Modern World. New York, Robert M. McBride & Company, 1928. The section on Whitman is a reprint of "Walt Whitman, A Study", by John Burroughs. Inscribed by the author to Mrs. Sprague. [14 CORBETT, ELIZABETH—WALT. THE GOOD GRAY POET SPEAKS FOR HIMSELF. New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1928. First edition, inscribed by the author to Mrs. Sprague. [13 MORRIS, HARRISON S.—WALT WHITMAN. A Brief Biography with Reminiscences. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1929. Inscribed to Henry S. Saunders by the author. [14 WINTERICH, JOHN T.—BOOKS AND THE MAN. New York, Greenberg, Publisher, 1929. First chapter entitled "Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass". [11 BLODGETT, HAROLD—WHITMAN AND BUCHANAN. Reprinted from American Literature, Volume Two, Number Two; May, 1930. Inscribed by the author to Mrs. Sprague. [12 BLODGETT, HAROLD—WHITMAN AND DOWDEN. Reprinted from American Literature, Volume 1, No. 2, May, 1929. [Reprinted May 30, 1930]. Inscribed by the author to Mrs. Sprague. [12 GARLAND, HAMLIN—ROADSIDE MEETINGS. Decorations by Constance Garland. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1930. Contains a chapter entitled "Walt Whitman Old and Poor". [12 LOWELL, AMY—POETRY AND POETS. Essays. New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930 Includes an essay entitled "Walt Whitman and the New Poetry". [13 MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER— . . . EX LIBRIS CARISSIMIS. London, Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1932. Refers to Whitman in connection with book collecting. [14 [*50*] RASCOE, BURTON—TITANS OF LITERATURE, FROM HOMER TO THE PRESENT. New York and London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1932. Contains a chapter entitled "Whitman the Prophet". [12 BLODGETT HAROLD—WALT WHITMAN IN ENGLAND. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 1934. This book contains references to the Sprague Collection. Autograph of the author laid in. [12 [*THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS stamp*] KILGORE, MANLEY WOODBURY, ed.—PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN POETS, by Edward Everett Hale and others. Edited and compiled by Manley Woodbury Kilgore and George Frank Woodbury. [Boston, Printed by George H. Ellis co., c1935]. Contains "Conversations with Walt Whitman" by Horace L. Traubel. [11 SHEPARD, ESTHER—WALT WHITMAN'S POSE. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, [c1938]. [12 MASTERS, EDGAR LEE—WHITMAN. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. Inscribed by the author to Mrs. Sprague. [12 SILVER, ROLLO G.—THIRTY-ONE LETTERS OF WALT WHITMAN. Reprinted from American Literature, Vol. 8, No. 4, January, 1937. [13 ARVIN, NEWTON—WHITMAN. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1938. Inscribed by the author to Mrs. Sprague. [13 ERSKINE, JOHN—THE START OF THE ROAD. New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1938. A novel based on Whitman's life. Inscribed by the author to Mrs. Sprague. [12 LONG, HANIEL—WALT WHITMAN AND THE SPRINGS OF COURAGE. Santa Fe, New Mexico, Writers' Editions Inc., [c1938]. [14 SMITH, LOGAN PEARSALL—UNFORGOTTEN YEARS. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1939. Contains an essay entitled "Walt Whitman". [14 SHAY, FRANK—THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WALT WHITMAN. New York, Friedmans', 1920. Edition limited to 500 copies, of which this is number 126. [14 [*51*]WELLS, CAROLYN, and ALFRED F. GOLDSMITH—A CONCISE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF WALT WHITMAN, with a Supplement of Fifty Books about Whitman. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1922. The edition is limited to 550 copies, of which this is number 525. Inscribed by both Miss Wells and Mr. Goldsmith. Annotated throughout by Mrs. Sprague. [14 ALLEN, GAY WILSON— . . . WALT WHITMAN BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1918-1934. Boston, The F. W. Faxon Company, 1935. Bulletin of Bibliography Pamphlets, No. 30. [14 Articles in Periodicals About Whitman and His Writings [HALE, EDWARD EVERETT]—LEAVES OF GRASS. A review, from The North American Review, January, 1856. [14 NOEL, RODEN—A STUDY OF WALT WHITMAN, THE POET OF MODERN DEMOCRACY. Parts I and II in The Dark Blue, October, 1871; November, 1871. [13 STEDMAN, EDMUND CLARENCE—WALT WHITMAN. From Scribner's Monthly, November, 1880. Autographed by the author. [14 TITHERINGTON, RICHARD H.—THE GOOD GRAY POET. In Munsey's Magazine, November, 1895. [14 [CARPENTER, EDWARD]—WHAT EDWARD CARPENTER SAYS ABOUT WHITMAN IN HIS LATEST BOOK. From The Craftsman, September, 1906. A review of Carpenter's book "Days With Walt Whitman", consisting largely of extracts. [14 WYATT, EDITH FRANKLIN—THE ANSWERER: WALT WHITMAN. In The North American Review, May, 1919. [14 RIDLEY, H. M.—GREAT FRIENDSHIPS: IX—ANNE GILCHRIST AND WALT WHITMAN. In The Canadian Magazine, July, 1923. [13 [*52*] BARRUS, CLARA—WHITMAN AND BURROUGHS AS COMRADES. In The Yale Review, October, 1925. The author's copy, annotated by her. [14 DURANT, WILL—THE BEST TEN. In Brentano's Book Chat, March & April, 1927. "Leaves of Grass" is mentioned as one of the best ten books of all time. [14 LOWELL, AMY—WALT WHITMAN AND THE NEW POETRY. In The Yale Review, April, 1927. [14 BLODGETT, HAROLD [W.]— WALT WHITMAN IN ENGLAND. In The American Mercury, August, 1929. Inscribed by the author to Mrs. Sprague. [14 WINTERICH, JOHN T.—WALT WHITMAN AND "LEAVES OF GRASS". From The Golden Book Magazine, May, 1929. [14 POET'S MAGAZINE—New York, January, 1930. Issued as a Walt Whitman number. [13 BLODGETT, HAROLD W.—WALT WHITMAN'S DARTMOUTH VISIT. In The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, February, 1933. [13 BENÉT, STEPHEN VINCENT—ODE TO WALT WHITMAN. In The Saturday Review of Literature, May 4, 1935. [14 G.[OHDES], C.[LARENCE]—WALT WHITMAN AND THE NEWSPAPERS OF HIS DAY. A bulletin issued for the Friends of Duke University Library. In Library Notes, October, 1936. [14 McCUSKER, HONOR—LEAVES OF GRASS. First Editions and Manuscripts in the Whitman Collection. In More Books, The Bulletin of The Boston Public Library, May, 1938. [14 Letters and Post Cards TROWBRIDGE, J.[OHN] T.[OWNSEND]—AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO JOHN BURROUGHS, MAY 20, 1874. Refers to a projected visit of Whitman to Burroughs's home. [11 [*53*]WHITMAN, WALT—TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED, TO MRS. SUSAN STAFFORD, MAY 19 AND JULY 15, 1891. POST CARD INITIALED "W. W.", JAN. 16, 1891 Chiefly concerned with his health and the well-being of his friends, the Staffords. [13 DODGE, MARY MAPES—AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO T. B. HARNED, FEB. 25, 1898. Refers to a letter from Whitman's mother. [12 BINNS, HENRY BRYAN—AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO T. B. HARNED, OCT. 16, 1904. Refers to various biographies of Whitman. [11 WALLACE, J. W.—TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED, TO DR. CLARA BARRUS, MARCH 19, 1919, AND APRIL 26, 1919. These letters are devoted chiefly to the character of Anne Gilchrist and her relationship with Whitman. [12 Miscellany WALT WHITMAN FELLOWSHIP PAPERS—1. Walt Whitman Fellowship: International: Officers Elected at the Organization Meeting Held in Philadelphia, May 31, 1894; 2. Organization, Philadelphia, June, 1894; 3. Constitution, Philadelphia, June, 1894; 4. Walt Whitman as Deliverer. By Francis Howard Williams. Philadelphia, Aug 1894; (Contains autograph notes by William Sloane Kennedy.) 5. Members. August 25. Philadelphia, August, 1894; 6. Memories of Walt Whitman, By Richard Maurice Bucke. Philadelphia, September, 1894; Fourth Year: No. 1. Walt Whitman Fellowship: International: Officers Elected at the Fourth Annual Meting, Philadelphia, May 31, 1897; Sixth Year: No. 1. Walt Whitman Fellowship: International: Officers Elected at the Sixth Annual Meeting, Boston, May 31, 1892. Other important issues in Mrs. Sprague's collection are not exhibited for want of space. Her collection includes copies of all issues, except a few consisting of unimportant lists, for the first five years. This period covers the publication of all Fellowship Papers of primary significance. [11 WALT WHITMAN FELLOWSHIP—[PROGRAM]. Sixth Annual Meeting of the Walt Whitman Fellowship (International) In Commemoration of the Birthday of Walt Whitman. Boston, May 31, 1899. [11 [*54*] WALT WHITMAN FELLOWSHIP, CANADIAN BRANCH— [ANNOUNCEMENT]. Second Annual Meeting on the 98th anniversary of the poet's birth, May 31, 1917. [11 WALT WHITMAN FELLOWSHIP OF CHICAGO—[PROGRAM]. The Annual Celebration in Honor of the Poet's Birth, May 31, 1927. [11 WALT WHITMAN FELLOWSHIP OF CHICAGO—[ANNOUNCEMENT]. Thirty-First Annual Celebration and Dinner in Honor of Poet's Birth, May 31, 1936. [11 [TRIMBLE, W. H.]—WALT WHITMAN LIBRARY, Collected by W. H. Trimble, Presented by His Daughter, D. H. Stewart, 1927. Notice of presentation of the Walt Whitman Library Collection by W. H. Trimble, 1927. The Trimble Library is in Dunedin, New Zealand, and is the largest collection of Walt Whitman material outside the United States. [12 SOTHEBY & CO.—CATALOGUE OF IMPORTANT LETTERS, Manuscripts and Books by or Relating to Walt Whitman. The Property of his intimate Friend, Biographer and Literary Executor, The late Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke. Sotheby & Co., May 13, 1935. [13 AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION—MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, FIRST EDITIONS AND PORTRAITS OF WALT WHITMAN. Formerly The Property of the Late Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke. To be Dispersed at Public sale, April 15 and 16, 1936. American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc. [13 WHITMAN, WALT—[EXTRACT FROM "SONG OF MYSELF"]. The New Broadside No. 8. Decorations by John Nash. [London]. The Poetry Bookshop. No date. A broadside. [13 Photographs, Engravings, Etc. WHITMAN, WALT—PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT IN HIS EARLY TWENTIES. From a daguerreotype given in 1928 by his niece, Jessie Whitman, to the Walt Whitman House in Camden, New Jersey. This is the earliest known picture of Whitman. [14 [*55*]GILCHRIST, HERBERT- ENGRAVING OF "THE STAFFORD'S PLACE". This was a few miles east of Camden on Timber Creek. Whitman delighted to visit the Staffords there. [13 WHITMAN, WALT -- PORTRAIT, PROCESS PRINT. From "Our Poet's Corner" series, Masterpiece Library, December, 1895. Inscribed on reverse by Henry S. Saunders to Mrs. Sprague. [14 ALEXANDER, JOHN W.-- ETCHED PORTRAIT OF WALT WHITMAN. Signed artist's proof. Date on back April, 1911. [11 RODGERS, CLEVELAND.-- WALT WHITMAN, POET OF DEMOCRACY. In the Mentor, September, 1923. Photographic portrait of "Walt Whitman at age of Fifty-Two" on outside front cover. [14 WHITMAN MEMORANDA ROSSETTI, WILLIAM MICHAEL.-- TWELVE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED, TO MRS. GILCHRIST, CONCERNING WHITMAN, WRITTEN BETWEEN 1879-1885, and an autograph copy by Rossetti of Whitman's letter to Moncure D. Conway, 17 Feb., 1868, referring to Whitman's English edition. The letters are dated: 3 Feb. 1879; 22 Jan. 1881; 18 Apr. 1882; 10 Nov. 1882; 6 May 1885; 15 June 1885; 26 June 1885; 29 June 1885; 5 July 1885; 14 Aug. 1885; 26 Aug. 1885; 28 Aug. 1885. [15 GAY, WILLIAM.-- WALT WHITMAN, THE POET OF DEMOCRACY. Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide, E. A. Petherick & Co., 1893. Typewritten copy made and bound by Henry S. Saunders. 10 copies of which this is number 1. [15 MICHAEL, HELEN ABBOTT.-- WOMAN AND FREEDOM IN WHITMAN. Read before The Walt Whitman Fellowship of Boston, November 19, 1896. Reprinted from Poet-Lore, April-June. Boston, Poet-Lore Company, 1897. Bound by Henry S. Saunders. Contains his bookplate. [15 [*56*] PAGE, CURTIS HIDDEN, ed. -- WHITMAN PAGES FROM "THE CHIEF AMERICAN POETS". Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1905. Excerpts, separately bound. Title page written in longhand. [15 WHITMAN, WALT. -- CRITICISM. AN ESSAY. Newark, New Jersey, The Carteret Book Club, 1913. The second of three typescript copies made and bound by Henry S. Saunders, from the privately printed, limited edition of 100 copies. [15 SAUNDERS, HENRY S. -- SOME FREE VERSE WRITERS SINCE WHITMAN. A Paper read at the Bon Echo Whitman Celebration on August 6th 1919. This book is typewritten and bound. 7 copies were made. [15 MERRILL, STUART -- WALT WHITMAN (a LEON BAZALGETTE). Toronto, Canada, Henry S. Saunders, 1922. 115 copies printed. Bound by Henry S. Saunders. [15 SAUNDERS, HENRY S., comp.-WHITMAN PORTRAITS WITH NOTES. Toronto, Canada, March 1922. Typed description on pages facing portraits. "Nine copies of this typing made. This is number 3". Contains 236 photographs. [15 COYNE, JAMES H. -- RICHARD MAURICE BUCKE, A SKETCH. With a bibliography and two unpublished portraits. Revised edition. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 1906. Toronto, Canada, Henry S. Saunders, 1923. Edition of 157 copies, of which this is number 2. Bound and signed by Henry S. Saunders. [15 WOOD, MILDRED, and CLEMENT WOOD -- FOR WALT WHITMAN. Toronto, Canada, Henry S. Saunders, 1923. Bound by Henry S. Saunders. [15 SAUNDERS, HENRY S. -- THE HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS. A Little Introduction to Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke's "Cosmic Consciousness". Toronto, Canada, Henry S. Saunders, 1924. Bound by Henry S. Saunders. [15 SAUNDERS, HENRY S., comp. -- ILLUSTRATIONS TO WALT WHITMAN'S LEAVES OF GRASS, Gathered from various sources, including many original photographs . . . Compiled, Mounted and Bound by Henry S. Saunders, Toronto, Canada, 1924. Edition limited to 10 copies, of which this is number 8. Contains 330 illustrations. [15 [*57*]SAUNDERS, HENRY S.-HOW TO APPROACH "LEAVES OF GRASS", A paper read at the tenth annual meeting of the Canadian Whitman Fellowship, May 30, 1925. This typescript copy bound for Mrs. Sprague June 4, 1925. [15 SAUNDERS, HENRY S.-WHITMAN IN FICTION, a list compiled by Henry S. Saunders. Toronto, Canada, Henry S. Saunders, June, 1926. 47 titles; 5 typescript copies made. This is number 2. [15 SAUNDERS, HENRY S.-THE WHITMAN YEAR (1925-1926). An address given by Henry S. Saunders at the Whitman Fellowship Meeting in Toronto, May 31st 1926. 4 copies of this were bound in June, 1926. This is number 4, inscribed for Mrs. Sprague by the author. [15 SAUNDERS, HENRY S., comp.-PORTRAIT GALLERY OF WHITMAN WRITERS, WITH QUOTATIONS. Toronto, Canada, Henry S. Saunders, 1927. Pen and ink title page. Autograph excerpts by Saunders. Photographs mounted in. On verso of title page: "Not more than ten copies of this book will be made. This is number two." Contains 233 photographs. [15 SAUNDERS, HENRY S., comp.-CATALOGUE OF THE WHITMAN COLLECTION OF HENRY S. SAUNDERS, Toronto, Canada, 1928. A typewritten book of 127 pages, of which 37 are an index. Bound by Saunders. Five copies made, of which this is number 1. [15 SAUNDERS, HENRY S., comp.-COMPLETE INDEX TO THE CONSERVATOR. Published by Horace Traubel from March 1890 to June 1919. Toronto, [Henry S. Saunders], 1930. Made and bound by Saunders. [15 [WHITMAN, WALT-INVITATION AND PROGRAM FOR THE UNVEILING OF BUSTS of Matthew Fontaine Maury, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, James Monroe, and Walt Whitman, at the Hall of Fame, May 14, 1931]. Two copies of program. [13 MORRIS, HARRISON S.- . . . ADDRESS . . . at the unveiling of the bust of Walt Whitman at the annual ceremonies of Hall of Fame at New York University, Thursday afternoon, May 14th 1931. New York, Bureau of Public Information, New York University, 1931. Typescript copy made and bound by Henry S. Saunders. [15 58 WALLACE, J. W.-WHITMAN AND RELIGION, AN ADDRESS . . . Delivered to The Progressive League, Bolton, March 28th 1915. Toronto, Canada, Henry S, Saunders, 1933. Typescript copy made and bound by Saunders. [15 SAUNDERS, HENRY S.-AN INTRODUCTION TO WALT WHITMAN. A paper read at a meeting of "Our Club", February fifteenth, Nineteen hundred and thirty-four. [Toronto], Henry S. Saunders, [1934]. Made and bound by the author. [15 SAUNDERS, HENRY S.-WHITMAN MUSIC. Eight copies typed and cloth bound [by Henry S. Saunders], Toronto, July 1934. This is number 1. [15 WHITMAN, WALT-PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT. This is the one used as an illustration in "With Walt Whitman in Camden", vol. 3, p. 378. [15 Publishing Arrangements, Etc. WHITMAN, WALT-CONTRACT WITH REES WELSH FOR THE PUBLICATION OF "LEAVES OF GRASS" AND "SPECIMEN DAYS", July 22, 1882. With Whitman's signature, and that of David McKay as witness. [15 REESE WELSH & CO-FIVE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED "McK" (DAVID McKAY) FOR REES WELSH & CO., TO WALT WHITMAN, JUNE AND JULY, 1882. Concern the publication of "Leaves of Grass" and "Specimen Days". [15 WHITMAN, WALT-FOUR AUTOGRAPH NOTES REGARDING PUBLISHING ARRANGEMENTS WITH REES WELSH & CO. One dated June 20, 1882; the other three undated. [15 WHITMAN, WALT-THREE AUTOGRAPH MEMORANDA, one signed "W. W.", outlining conditions agreed to with Rees Welsh & Co., for publication of "Leaves of Grass" and "Specimen Days" and of "Walt Whitman, A Study" by Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke. No dates. [15 McKAY, DAVID-SEVENTEEN SIGNED ACCOUNTS OF SALES OF "LEAVES OF GRASS" AND "SPECIMEN DAYS", 1882-1891. Ten have autograph notes by Walt Whitman. [15 59WHITMAN, WALT--LIST OF ROYALTY PAYMENTS MADE BY DAVID McKAY, IN WALT WHITMAN'S AUTOGRAPH, SEPT., 1882 TO SEPT., 1887. [15 WHITMAN, WALT--TWO AUTOGRAPH MEMORANDA REGARDING PUBLICATION OF "LEAVES OF GRASS" AND "SPECIMEN DAYS" BY DAVID McKAY. One undated, one dated July 30, 1885. [15 McKAY, DAVID--DUE-BILL FROM DAVID McKAY FOR "NOVEMBER BOUGHS", OCT. 23, 1888. Walt Whitman's autograph, receipted by him on reverse, Jan. 8, 1889. [15 HARNED, THOMAS B.--AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO MRS. SPRAGUE, OCT. 18, 1919. Identifies papers connected with McKay's sales of Whitman books. [15 WHITMAN, WALT--AUTOGRAPH COPY SIGNED, OF LETTER SENT TO LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS, ASKING FOR RENEWAL OF COPYRIGHT ON "LEAVES OF GRASS", July 30, 1884. Autograph note appended: "Renewal granted and rec'd by me." [15 SAUNDERS, HENRY S., and HELEN SAUNDERS--EIGHT CHRISTMAS CARDS, Toronto, 1912-1920. Seven of the cards have printed quotations from Whitman. One has a quotation from Horace Traubel. [15 TRANSLATIONS WHITMAN, WALT-- . . . FULLES D'HERBA. Seleccio i Traduccio per Cebria Montoliu. Barcelona, "L'Avenc", 1910. (Leaves of Grass. Selection and Translation by Cebria Montoliu.) Inscribed by Montoliu to Wm. Sloane Kennedy. [16 MONTOLIU, CEBRIA-- . . . WALT WHITMAN, L'HOME I SA TASCA. Barcelona, Societat Catalana d'Edicions, [1913]. (Walt Whitman, the Man and his Work.) Inscribed by the author to Wm. Sloane Kennedy. [16 WHITMAN, WALT-- DEMOKRATISKE FREMBLIK. Oversat efter den amerikanske Original af Rudolf Schmidt. Kjobenhavn, Karl Schonberg, 1874. (Democratic Vistas. Translated from the American Original by Rudolf Schmidt.) [16 [*60*] WHITMAN, WALT-- . . . DIGTE, i Udvalg og med Indledning af Johannes V. Jensen og Otto Gelsted. Kobenhavn, Kristiania, Nyt Nordisk 1919. ( . . . Poems, Selected and with an introduction by Johannes V. Jensen and Otto Gelsted.) [16 WHITMAN, WALT--GRASHALMEN (LEAVES OF GRASS), Vertaald door Maurits Wagenvoort, met Portret van den Dichter. [Amsterdam, Maatschapp ij voor Goede en Goedkoope Lectuur], 1917. (Leaves of Grass, Translated by Maurits Wagenvoort, with Portrait of the Poet.) Paper covers. Bookplate: Henry S. Saunders. [16 --------- Another copy, [Amsterdam, Maatschapp ij voor Goede en Goedkoope Lectuur], 1917. Bound in boards. [16 BAZALGETTE, LEON--WALT WHITMAN, L'HOMME ET SON OEUVRE; avec un Portrait et un Autographe. Paris, Societe du Mercure de France, 1908. (Walt Whitman, the Man and his Work; with a Portrait and an Autograph.) First edition. Inscribed: "To John Burroughs, poet, naturalist and the old and faithful friend of the Good Grey, (and acknowledgment of my indebtedness to his Notes and W. W., a Study) Paris April 08. L. Bazalgette." Autographed by Clara Barrus. [16 --------- Another copy, Paris, Societe du Mercure de France, 1908. Bound in green cloth. [16 WHITMAN, WALT-- . . . FEUILLES D'HERBE. Traduction Integrale d'apres l'Edition Definitive, par Leon Bazalgette, avec deux Portraits de l'Auteur. Paris, Mercure de France, 1909. (Leaves of Grass. Complete Translation Following the Definitive Edition, by Leon Bazalgette, with two Portraits of the Author.) Vol. 2 only exhibited. [16 WHITMAN, WALT--POEMES DE WALT WHITMAN, Version francaise de Leon Bazalgette. Paris, F. Rieder & Cie, 1914. (Poems of Walt Whitman. French version of Leon Bazalgette.) [16 WHITMAN, WALT-- . . . CALAMUS. Poemes. Version Nouvelle de Leon Bazalgette, Avec 10 Bois Hors-Texte Dessines et Graves par Frans Masereel. [Geneve], Editions du Sablier, 1919. (. . . Calamus. Poems. A new translation by Leon Bazalgette, with 10 woodcut plates drawn and engraved by Frans Masereel.) [16 [*61*]CESTRE, CHARLES—LE LYRISME DE WALT WHITMAN. In The Anglo-French Review, June, 1919. (The lyricism of Walt Whitman.) [16 FIGUIÈRE, EUGÈNE— . . . WALT WHITMAN (POÈTE AMÈRICAIN). Paris, Eugène Figuière, 1928. [16 FIGUIÈRE, EUGÈNE— WALT WHITMAN (POÈTE AMÈRICAIN). Conférence Prononcée au Théâtre de l'Odéon le 13 Décembre 1918, Suivie des meilleures Pensées de Walt Whitman, Recueillies et Traduites par Ary René d'Yvermont. Paris, Eugène Figuière [1919]. (Walt Whitman. (American Poet). Address Delivered at the Odéon Theatre December 13, 1918, Followed by the Best Thoughts of Walt Whitman, Collected and Translated by Ary René d'Yvermont.) Inscribed by Barrett Clark to Mrs. Sprague. [16 BAZALGETTE, LÈON—WALT WHITMAN, THE MAN AND HIS WORK. Translated from the French by Ellen FitzGerald. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920. [16 BAZALGETTE, LÈON—LE "POÈME-ÉVANGILE" DE WALT WHITMAN. "Je ferai le poème-évangile des camarades et de l'affection." Paris, Mercure de France, 1921. (The "Evangel-Poem" of Walt Whitman. "I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.") An interpretation of the teachings of Whitman, as disclosed in "Leaves of Grass". The quoted line is from "Starting from Paumanok". Inscribed by Bazalgette. [16 CATEL, JEAN—WALT WHITMAN, PURITAIN. In Mercure de France, October 15, 1923. [16 CATEL, JEAN— . . . RYTHME ET LANGAGE DANS LA 1re ÉDITION DES "LEAVES OF GRASS" (1855). Paris, Les Éditions Rieder, [1929]. (The Rhythm and Language of the first Edition of "Leaves of Grass", 1855.) Inscribed to Mrs. Sprague. [16 CESTRE, CHARLES—WALT WHITMAN, LE POÈTE. In Revue Anglo-Américaine, October, 1930. [16 [*62*] WHITMAN, WALT— . . . ŒUVRES CHOISIES. Poèmes et Proses Traduits par Jules Laforgue, Louis Fabulet, André Gide, Valery Larbaud, Jean Schlumberger, Francis Vielé-Griffin. Précédés d'une Étude par Valery Larbaud. Dixième Édition. Paris, Librairie Gallimard, Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, [1918]. ( . . . Selected Works. Poems and Prose Writing, Translated by Jules Laforgue, etc. . . . Preceded by a Study by Valery Larbaud. Tenth edition.) [16 COTTERILL, H. B., and T. W. ROLLESTON—UEBER WORDSWORTH UND WALT WHITMAN. Zwei Vorträge gehalten vor dem Literarischen Verein zu Dresden. Dresden, Carl Tittmann, 1883. (Concerning Wordsworth and Walt Whitman, two Addresses Delivered before the Literarischer Verein in Dresden.) Signed by T. B. Harned. This pamphlet is nearly all translated into English in the Camden (New Jersey) Post, January 13, 1884. [16 WHITMAN, WALT—NOVELLEN VON WALT WHITMAN. Ins Deutsche übertragen von Thea Ettlinger. Mit einem Geleitwort von Johannes Schlaf. Minden in Westf., J. C. C. Bruns, [1900]. (Short Stories by Walt Whitman. Translated into German by Thea Ettlinger, with an Introduction by Johannes Schlaf.) Whitman's early newspaper stories. [16 BERTZ, EDUARD—WALT WHITMAN. EIN CHARACTERBILD. [Leipzig, M. Spohr, 1905?]. (Walt Whitman. A Character Sketch.) From "Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen . . . VII. Jahrgang." [16 WHITMAN, WALT— . . . PROSASCHRIFTEN, In Auswahl übersetzt und eingeleitet von O. E. Lessing. Mit zwei Porträts und einem Faksimile. München und Leipzig, R. Piper & Co., [1905]. (Selected Prose Writings, Translated, with an Introduction, by O. E. Lessing. With two Portraits and a Facsimile.) [16 SMITH, THOMAS K.—WHITMAN'S LEAVES OF GRASS. Style and Subject-Matter with special reference to Democratic Vistas. Königsberg i. Pr., Druck von Karg und Manneck, 1914. Dissertation of Thomas K. Smith, Quakertown, Pennsylvania, for Doctorate in Philosophy at University of Koenigsberg. [16 [*63*]WHITMAN, WALT - . . . DER WUNDARZT; Briefe, Aufzeichnungen und Gedichte aus dem amerikanischen Sezessionskrieg. Zurich, Max Rascher A.-G, 1919. (The Wound Dresser, Letters, Sketches and Poems of the American Civil War.) Verse translations by Gustav Landauer and prose by Iwan Goll. [16 WHITMAN, WALT - . . . GESANGE UND INSCHRIFTEN, Ubertragen von Gustav Landauer. Munchen, Kurt Wolff, 1921. (Songs and Inscriptions, Translated by Gustav Landauer.) [16 WHITMAN, WALT - WALT WHITMANS WERK, in zwei Banden. Erster Band. Berlin, S. Fischer, 1922. (Walt Whitman's Work, in two Volumes. First Volume.) Selected, translated, and with an introduction by Hans Reisiger. With four illustrations. Volume two not exhibited. [16 WHITMAN, WALT - . . . HYMNEN FUR DIE ERDE. Leipzig, Im Insel-Verlag, [1914]. (Songs for the Earth.) Selections from "Leaves of Grass". [16 PASZTOR, ARPAD - WALT WHITMAN. Budapest, Dick Mano Kiadasa, 1922. The book contains, in addition to a discussion of Whitman and his work, a selection from his poems. Date on cover reads 1923. [16 HEVESY, IVAN - WALT WHITMAN. From A Kekmadar. No date. In this discussion of Whitman and his poetry Ivan Hevesy says, "Among the American poets known here, only Whitman is the real American, the others are English." [16 JANNACCONE, P. - . . . LA POESIA DI WALT WHITMAN E L'EVOLUZIONE DELLE FORME RITMICHE. Torino, Roux Frassati e Co, 1898. (The poetry of Walt Whitman and the Evolution of Rhythmic Forms.) [16 WHITMAN, WALT - . . . FOGLIE DI ERBA, con le due aggiunte e gli "Echi della vecchiaia" dell' edizione del 1900. Versione di Luigi Gamberale. Milan, Palermo, Napoli, Remo Sandron, [1923]. ("Leaves of Grass, with the two Annexes and "Old Age Echoes" from the Edition of 1900. Translation of Luigi Gamberale.) [16 64 MORRIS, HARRISON S. - . . . WALT WHITMAN, POETA DELLA DEMOCRAZIA (1819-1892). Con prefazione del Prof. Carlo Formichi. Firenze, R. Bemporad & Figlio, [1920]. (Walt Whitman, Poet of Democracy (1819-1892). Preface by Prof. Carlo Formichi.) No. 7-8 of the series, "Collected Biographies of Illustrious Americans," issued in connection with the Keats-Shelley Memorial in Rome. At head of title: Americani illustri raccolta biografica, diretta da H. Nelson Gay N.o 7-8. [16 ROBILANT, IRENE DI - VITA AMERICANA (STATI UNITI DEL NORD-AMERICA). Torino, Fratelli Bocca, 1929. (American life, The United States of North America.) A study of America, its background, development, traditions, philosophy, etc., in which Whitman is mentioned frequently. [16 WHITMAN, WALT - LEAVES OF GRASS. Translated by Shigetaka Naganuma, (Vol. I). [?] Tokyo, Toko-sha, 1929. [?]. Bound in a style after that of the binding of the first edition, 1855. [16 _______ Another copy, Tokyo, Toko-sha, 1929. Signed by the translator. Bound in leather, stamped in a style after the first edition, 1855. [16 [?], [?] - [?] [?]. [?]. [?] [?] [?] [?]. [?]. [?], [?] [?], 1922. ("Leaves of Grass. Prose. Translation and prefaces by K. Chukovsky. Petersburg, State Publishing House.) Selections of poetry include Song of Myself. Prose includes Specimen Days, Future of Democracy, Democratic Vistas. [16 [?], [?] - [?] [?]. [?] [?] [?] [?]. [?]. [?]. [?], "[?]," 1911. (Leaves of grass. Translation from the English by K. D. Balmont. Moscow, "Skorpion," 1911.) Contains selections from Whitman, among which are Salut au Monde, Dedications, Song of the Broad-Axe, Drum-Taps, Songs of Farewell, Good-bye My Fancy. [16 [?], [?]. - [?] [?] [?] [?]. [?]. [?], "[?]," 1923. (Selected Modern English Lyric Poetry. Translated by Svetozar Stefanovich. Belgrade, Progress Publishing Co., 1923). Contains five poems by Whitman. [16 BAZALGETTE, LEON - AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED, in English, to Thomas B. Harned, Oct. 16, 1917. In this letter he mentions his translations of some of Whitman's poems to appear in a small pamphlet. [16 65WHITMAN, WALT-EUTHANASIA. In Kottabos, New series, Vol. I, No. I. Trinity College. Dublin, William McGee, 1888. Whitman's poem "Come Lovely and Soothing Death", lyric from "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", here entitled "Euthanasia", and with variations in punctuation and capitalization, is translated into Greek anapaestic form by J. I. Beare, having the title "[?] [?] [?] [?] M [?]". ("O Sweet Death, Rest Me, Rest Me"). Sent by T. W. Rolleston to W. S. Kennedy, and bears autograph noted signed "T. W. R." [16 INTIMATE MEMORABILIA BROOKLYN, [NEW YORK] DIRECTORY . . . 1849 & 1850, Brooklyn. Henry R. & William J. Hearne. Contains Walt Whitman's name and address: "Walter Whitman, Jr., editor Brooklyn Freeman Fulton c Middagh h 106 Myrtle". [18 WARREN, SAMUEL - THE LILY AND THE BEE, An apologue of The Crystal Palace. Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1851. Bliss Perry believes this is a source book for "Leaves of Grass". This copy inscribed by the author. [18 McPHERSON, JAMES - THE POEMS OF OSSIAN. Boston, Phillips, Sampson, and Company, New York, J. C. Derby, 1855. Said to have been a source book for "Leaves of Grass". [18 BARTLETT, TRUMAN H. - PLASTER CAST OF WHITMAN'S RIGHT HAND, April 17, 1881. Reproduction, one of a small number made, given to Mrs. Sprague by Henry H. Kitson. [18 KITSON, HENRY H. - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO MRS. SPRAGUE, April 25, 1939. Concerns the cast of Whitman's hand. [18 U. S. CONGRESS. HOUSE. COMMITTEE ON INVALID PENSIONS. - [REPORT TO ACCOMPANY BILL H. R. 10707]. Report of the House of Representatives on a pension for Whitman at the 49th Congress, 2d Session, Report No. 3856, February 1, 1887. This report was withdrawn. [18 GILCHRIST, HERBERT - WALT WHITMAN AT HIS HOME IN CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY. Oil painting, 1887. (See accompanying illustration.) [19 66 WALT WHITMAN AT HIS HOME IN CAMDEN, N. J. PAINTED BY HERBERT GILCHRIST.JOHNSON, T.—ETCHING OF WALT WHITMAN, 1891. Signed by the artist and by Whitman. [17 WHITMAN, WALT—AUTOBIOGRAPHIA, OR, THE STORY OF A LIFE . . . Selected from his prose writings. New York, Charles L. Webster & Co., 1892. Mark Twain was a partner in the Webster firm [18 WHITMAN, WALT—CENDRES DES SOLDATS. Translation of Whitman poem "Ashes of Soldiers", by León Bazalgette, for use as a poster for Whitman's Centennial, May 31, 1919. Inscribed by Bazalgette to Thomas B. Harned, and by Harned to Mrs. Sprague. [17 McKENZIE, TAIT—BRONZE PLAQUE OF WHITMAN'S HEAD. Issued in 1919 in commemoration of the Centennial of Whitman's birth. [18 MATTHEWS, H. T.—REPRODUCTION OF HIS DRAWING OF WHITMAN'S BIRTHPLACE, 1920. One of 200 copies. [18 FINTA, ALEXANDER—THE AUTHORS CLUB MEMORIAL MEDAL, 1925. Head of Whitman, legend: 1819 Walt Whitman 1892. [18 DAVIDSON, JO—PHOTOGRAPH OF HIS STATUE OF WHITMAN, "The Song of the Open Road." Dedicated at the New York World's Fair, May 31, 1939. The sculptor is shown beside his work. [18 WHITMAN, WALT—PHOTOGRAPH OF HIS BIRTHPLACE, WEST HILLS, LONG ISLAND. Two typewritten sheets accompanying the photograph describe the house and relate some of its history. [18 WALT WHITMAN'S SCHOOLHOUSE, SYOSSET, LONG ISLAND. Photograph of the school where Whitman taught. The present owner has restored the building as nearly as possible to its original state. [18 WALT WHITMAN'S SCHOOLHOUSE, SYOSSET, LONG ISLAND. Circular announcing the opening of Whitman's school, May, 1927, as a permanent shrine. [18 WHITMAN, WALT—REPRODUCTION OF THE MAP OF THE UNITED STATES, upon which Whitman had traced his journeys. [18 [*68*] "CONVERSATION PIECE". PAINTING BY HERBERT GILCHRIST REPRESENTING WHITMAN, MRS. GILCHRIST, AND HER DAUGHTER GRACE HAVING TEA AT THE GILCHRIST HOME IN PHILADELPHIAWHITMAN, WALTER—REPRODUCTION OF A PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT OF WHITMAN'S FATHER, BY F. GUTEKUNST. [18 WHITMAN, LOUISA VAN VELSOR—REPRODUCTION OF A PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT OF WHITMAN'S MOTHER, BY F. GUTEKUNST. [18 WHITMAN, LOUISA VAN VELSOR—PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT OF WHITMAN'S MOTHER. Autographed by Horace L. Traubel. [18 WHITMAN, GEORGE WASHINGTON—PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT. He was a brother of Whitman. The original photograph is in the Whitman House in Camden, New Jersey. [18 WHITMAN, WALT—PHOTOGRAPH OF THE WALT WHITMAN HOUSE IN CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY. Also photograph of the plaque now on the house. [18 WHITMAN, WALT—THREE PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE INTERIOR OF HIS HOUSE IN CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY. Represented are: the sofa; Whitman's rocking chair (over it hangs the portrait of his father); and the chest of drawers belonging to his mother. [18 GILCHRIST, HERBERT—CRAYON PORTRAIT OF ANNE GILCHRIST, 1876. [17 GILCHRIST, HERBERT—REPRODUCTION OF A PORTRAIT OF MRS. GILCHRIST. A first print for "Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman". Autograph note signed, "T. B. H." (T. B. Harned). [18 GILCHRIST, HERBERT—"CONVERSATION PIECE", OR, "THE TEA PARTY". Walt Whitman having tea at the home of Mrs. Gilchrist, Philadelphia, Pa. Oil painting made between 1882 and 1884. (See illustration on preceding page.) [20 BURROUGHS, JOHN—DESK CALENDAR, 1905. Each page carries a Whitman quotation written out by Clara Barrus. Burroughs kept this calendar on his desk until his death. Dr. Barrus left it in place for many years, and shortly before her death she presented it to Mrs. Sprague. [18 [*70*] MORSE, SIDNEY H.—PLASTER PLAQUE OF WHITMAN'S HEAD AND SHOULDERS. Full-face, from the Wallace collection. [18 MORSE, SIDNEY H.—PLASTER PLAQUE OF WHITMAN'S HEAD. Profile. [18 BONHAM, LILLIAN—PLASTER PLAQUE OF WHITMAN'S HEAD. [18 KITSON, HENRY H.—PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRODUCTION OF PLASTER HEAD OF WHITMAN. Inscribed by the sculptor to Mrs. Sprague. [18 WHITMAN, WALT—PHOTOGRAPH OF HIS TOMB. [18 ———————————————————————————— IN ADDITION to the Sprague collection, there are here exhibited two items by the sculptor, Alexander Finta, loaned by him. Above the center case is his bronze model for a symbolical monument, portraying Whitman and his life in three phases: In profile his youth; in front view his middle age; in back view his old age. This blended figure of Whitman holds over his head the legendary Phoenix, and expresses the ambition and life struggle of an individual upholding everything precious and valuable, and subduing obstacles and opposition. Above case 20 is his heroic plaster head of Whitman. [*71*] [*U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1939*][*Not priced*] [*5/13/35*] [*Walt Whitman*] [*Collection*] [*24*] SOTHEBY & CO. 34 & 35, NEW BOND STREET, LONDON W. (1) CATALOGUE OF IMPORTANT LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS AND BOOKS BY OR RELATING TO WALT WHITMAN THE PROPERTY OF HIS INTIMATE FRIEND, BIOGRAPHER AND LITERARY EXECUTOR The late Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke of London, Ontario [SOLD BY ORDER OF H. L. BUCKE, ESQ.] Day of Sale MONDAY, THE 13TH OF MAY, 1935 Illustrated Catalogue (4 Plates) Price 1/-TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION FOR MESSRS. SOTHEBY'S CATALOGUES AND PRICE LISTS FOR ONE SEASON. The Season opens in October and closes at the end of July. (All subscriptions include postage.) PLAIN CATALOGUES. £ s. d. Antiquities 0 1 6 Books, MSS, and Autograph Letters 0 5 0 Coins and Medals 0 1 6 Drawings and Pictures 0 2 0 Engravings (Old) 0 2 0 Etchings (Modern) 0 2 0 Oriental MSS. and Miniatures 0 1 0 Works of Art (including Armour, China, Furniture, Glass, Japanese Colour Prints and Works of Art, Jewellery, Miniatures, Silver, Textiles, etc.) 0 5 0 £1 0 0 ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES. (To include Plain copies where no Illustrated Catalogues are issued.) £ s. d. Antiquities 0 5 0 Books, MSS. and Autograph Letters 2 0 0 Coins and Medals 0 5 0 Drawings and Pictures 0 15 0 Engravings (Old) 0 7 6 Etchings (Modern) 0 2 6 Oriental MSS. and Miniatures 0 5 0 Works of Art (including Armour, China, Furniture, Glass, Japanese Colour Prints and Works of Art, Jewellery, Miniatures, Silver, Textiles, etc.) 1 0 0 £5 0 0 PRINTED LISTS OF PRICES AND BUYERS' NAMES. £ s. d. Antiquities 0 10 0 Books, MSS. and Autograph Letters 5 5 0 Coins and Medals 0 10 0 Drawings and Pictures 1 15 0 Engravings (Old) 1 15 0 Etchings (Modern) 0 15 0 Oriental MSS. and Miniatures 0 10 0 Works of Art (including Armour, China, Furniture, Glass, Japanese Colour Prints and Works of Art, Jewellery, Miniatures, Silver, Textiles, etc.) 4 0 0 £15 0 0 [*Transferred TO MSS. Division by the Division of Fine Arts, L.C.*] CATALOGUE OF IMPORTANT LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS AND BOOKS BY OR RELATING TO WALT WHITMAN THE PROPERTY OF HIS INTIMATE FRIEND, BIOGRAPHER AND LITERARY EXECUTOR The late Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke of London, Ontario [SOLD BY ORDER OF H. L. BUCKE, ESQ.] WHICH WILL BE SOLD BY AUCTION BY MESSRS. SOTHEBY & CO. G. D. HOBSON, M.V.O. F. W. WARRE, O.B.E., M.C. C. G. DES GRAZ. C. V. PILKINGTON. Auctioneers of Literary Property & Works illustrative of the Fine Arts. AT THEIR LARGE GALLERIES, 34 & 35, NEW BOND STREET, W. (1). On MONDAY, the 13th of MAY, 1935 at ONE O'CLOCK On View Two Days previous. Catalogues may be had. Illustrated Catalogue (4 Plates) - Price 1/-468619 Je 28, 35Walt Whitman Sept : '87 42 (reduced) FOREWORD THE genesis of the friendship between Dr. R. M. Bucke and the author of Leaves of Grass is best told in his own words. In a lecture given in 1900 he writes : "Within ten years from the time I first heard Whitman's name mentioned, his book had become the most important factor in my life. It had revolutionized all my ideas and convictions and had opened up to me a new world much larger and more important than the old world in which I had theretofore lived. But I was by no means satisfied with the progress I had made. I wanted above all to know Whitman personally, and to see for myself what sort of a man this was who, to judge by his book and by the accounts of certain writers about him, was almost more than human. "I had found out by this time (1877) that Whitman lived in Camden, New Jersey. I went there and called upon him and well as I thought I knew him from his book, his actual presence was a genuine revelation to me. He was at that time fifty-eight years old; his hair and beard were white; he was somewhat lame from his paralysis; but he seemed strong and healthy. His face was florid; his manner quiet and gentle; his speech simple and the reverse of copious. I had never seen, and I have never seen since, though I have met both Tennyson and Browning, any person who gave such an impression of spiritual exaltation and power . . . "This now was the opening of a new era in my experience of Whitman. We became friends and he was the closest and most beloved I have ever had. Later, in the summer of 1880, he spent four months with me in my house at London, and in that necessarily intimate association I began really to know him ". The friendship thus begun in 1877 remained unbroken till the poet's death. "For the next fifteen years", writes Mr. Bliss Perry, in his life of Walt Whitman, "Dr. Bucke was unwearied in the offices of friendship, publishing in 1883 a valuable biography of Whitman, and becoming ultimately one of his literary executors". The fruits of that friendship partly survive in the collection here offered for sale. SOTHEBY AND CO. April, 1935 F2CONDITIONS OF SALE I. The highest bidder to be the buyer. If any dispute arise the Auctioneer shall have absolute discretion to settle it; and to put any disputed lot up again. II. No person to advance less than 1s.; above five pounds 5s., and so on in proportion. III. All lots are put up for sale subject (a) to any reserve price imposed by the seller and (b) to the right of the seller to bid either personally or else by any one person who may be the Auctioneer. IV. The purchasers to give in their names and places of abode, and if required, to pay down 10s. in the pound or more, in part payment of the purchase money; in default of which the lot or lots purchased may be immediately put up again and re-sold. V. All lots are sold as shown with all faults, imperfections, and errors of description. Messrs. Sotheby & Co. act as agents; they have full discretion to refuse any bidding or to withdraw any lot or lots from the sale without in either case giving any reason; they are not responsible for errors of description or for genuineness or authenticity of any lot or for any fault or defect in it, and make no warranty whatever. VI. The lots to be taken away at the buyer's risk and expense, immediately after the conclusion of the sale; in default of which Messrs. Sotheby & Co. will not hold themselves responsible if the same are lost, stolen, damaged or otherwise destroyed, but they will be left at the sole risk of the purchaser, and subject to a charge for warehousing. If, at the expiration of Two Days after the conclusion of the sale, the lots are not cleared or paid for, they may then be sold immediately, either publicly or by private treaty, without any notice being given to the defaulter. VII. Upon failure of the buyer to comply with any of the above conditions, the money deposited in part-payment shall be forfeited; and the defaulter at this sale shall make good any loss arising from the re-sale, together with the charges and expenses in respect of both sales. To prevent confusion no purchases can be claimed or removed during the sale. Messrs. SOTHEBY & Co. are prepared to execute bids, and in addition to advise intending purchasers as far as possible, if requested by them to do so, without making any charge for either service. Lots will be procured as cheaply as is permitted by other bids or reserves, if any. 34 and 35, New Bond Street, London, W.1 Telegraphic Address : Telephone : (3 lines) "Abinitio, Wesdo, London." Mayfair 6682, 6683, 6684. A.B.C. Code, 5th Edition. In sending Commissions this Catalogue may be referred to as " BARK " COMMISSIONS SENT BY TELEPHONE ARE ACCEPTED AT THE SENDER'S RISK AND MUST BE CONFIRMED BY LETTER OR TELEGRAM. 2a CATALOGUE OF IMPORTANT LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS AND BOOKS BY OR RELATING TO WALT WHITMAN THE PROPERTY OF HIS INTIMATE FRIEND, BIOGRAPHER AND LITERARY EXECUTOR The late Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke, of London, Ontario [SOLD BY ORDER OF H. L. BUCKE, ESQ.] DAY OF SALE : Monday, May 13th, 1935 I. WORKS BY WALT WHITMAN [INCLUDING SIGNED OR PRESENTATION COPIES] LOT 1 WHITMAN (WALT) Complete Poems and Prose, portraits, signature of the author on title to " Leaves of Grass " , half green cloth, uncut, unopened large 8vo [1888] 2 Whitman (Walt) A Collection of Nine early stories extracted from The United States Magazine and Democratic Review and bound together, half black leather 8vo New York, 1841-45 *** The Collection includes : Death in the Schoolroom (Aug. 1841) ; Wild Frank's Return (Nov. 1841) ; Bervance : or, Father and Son (Dec. 1841) ; The Tomb-Blossoms (Jan. 1842) ; The Last of the Sacred Army (March 1842) ; The Child-Ghost ; a Story of the Last Loyalist (May 1842) ; The Angel of Tears (Sept. 1842) ; Revenge and Requital (July and Aug. 1845) ; A Dialogue (Nov. 1845). [*2b*]Monday 2 13th May, 1935 3 WHITMAN (WALT) Leaves of Grass Imprints. American and European Criticisms of "Leaves of Grass", FIRST EDITION, original wrappers 16 mo Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860 *** "This was a reprint of criticisms of the first and second editions. Pages 7, 30 and 38 contain articles written by Walt Whitman anonymously to various papers. Dr. Bucke is the authority for this statement. The pamphlet was supplied gratuitously by the publishers as an advertisement . . . On account of its size and frail make-up it is now very rare".—Wells and Goldsmith, Bibliography of Whitman, pp. 6-7. In this copy Dr. Bucke has marked the articles on pp. 7, 30 and 38 with blue pencil and the initials W.W. 4 Whitman (Walt) Leaves of Grass, third edition, portrait, original cloth, bookplate of Dr. R. M. Bucke 12mo Boston, Thayer and Eldridge, 1860-61 5 WHITMAN (WALT) LEAVES OF GRASS. [Passage to India], Washington, D.C., 1871 ; Democratic Vistas, FIRST EDITION, ib., 1871, bound in one vol. in green morocco, g. t., the original upper light green wrapper of both vol. (lower wrapper of one vol. only) preserved 12mo 1871 *** SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FLY-LEAF: "Walt Whitman. Camden, New Jersey. Oct: 31. 1890", bookplate of Dr. R. M. Bucke. 6 WHITMAN (WALT) LEAVES OF GRASS, second issue of the fifth edition, original green cloth 12mo Washington, D.C., 1872 *** PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH INSCRIPTION BY HIM ON FLY-LEAF: "Dr. R. M. Bucke from the author. Sept: 7 1891", signature of the author "Walt Whitman" on title. Dr R M Bucke from the author Sept: 7 1891 7 Whitman (Walt) Leaves of Grass, title, intercalations and portrait used by Walt Whitman to convert a very few left-over copies of the 1872 edition into a preliminary issue of the 1876 edition (these copies occur in a half calf binding mostly sent to friends), 3 ll., unbound 8vo Camden, New Jersey, 1876 Monday 3 13th May, 1935 8 WHITMAN (WALT) COPY OF LEAVES OF GRASS. Set up, Cast, & printed Boston, Aug. 22-Sept. 19, 1881, at office of [Rand, Avery & Co., Printers, No. 117 Franklin St., Boston] 1881. Henry H. Clark, Superintendent Book Department. J. R. Osgood and Co.: 211 Tremont St. publishers of book. It is to be $2 retail & I am to have 25 cts a copy royalty. I was in Boston from Aug. 19 to Oct. Dan. Rogers the boy messenger. Boarding place, Mrs. Moffitt's Hotel, 8 Bullfinch place *** The above (except the words in square brackets, which are printed) is written by Walt Whitman on a sheet of paper accompanying a copy of Leaves of Grass, made up from sheets of previous editions with some passages added in the author's handwriting and very numerous corrections by him throughout. The list of Contents (15 leaves) is also in his handwriting. This formed the copy for the Boston edition of 1881-82. Dr. R. M. Bucke, in his biography of Walt Whitman (1882), writes of this edition (p. 147): The next (seventh) edition of Leaves of Grass is that of James R. Osgood & Co., Boston, 1881-82 . . . . A few of the old [poems] are omitted (generally for the reason that what they contained was expressed elsewhere), in some instances two are run into one, and quite a number of new pieces added. The text throughout has been thoroughly revised, hundreds of slight alterations have been made, in many places words and lines omitted, and as frequently, in other places, words and lines added. The arrangement and the punctuation have been materially altered for the better, and the poems are so joined and blended by slight alterations in the text and by juxta-position, that Leaves of Grass now becomes a unit in a sense it had never been before. The original design of the author, formed twenty-six years before, has taken shape, and stands in this volume completed. 9 Whitman (Walt) Leaves of Grass. Preface to the original edition, 1855, original wrappers (front wrapper slightly torn), London: Trübner and Co., 1881 ; Another copy, foremargin of front wrapper and first 11 ll. defective (affecting text of wrapper and title), ib., 1881 8vo (2) 10 WHITMAN (WALT) LEAVES OF GRASS, signature of author on title, original cloth 8vo Author's Edition, Camden, New Jersey, 1882 *** "This is a scarce and almost unknown issue ; it is doubtful if more than one hundred copies were printed. It appeared after the suppression of the Boston edition and before the first Philadelphia Edition was issued by Rees, Welsh and Company. All copies were autographed, and it is probable that Whitman had these made for a few friends while waiting for the first Philadelphia Edition." —Wells and Goldsmith, Bibliography of Walt Whitman, p. 25. 11 WHITMAN (WALT) Leaves of Grass with Sands at Seventy, and a Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads, special autograph edition, portraits, signature of the author on the title, one of 300 copies printed, limp black leather, g. e. 12mo Philadelphia, 1889Monday 4 13th May, 1935 12 WHITMAN (WALT) LEAVES OF GRASS, original brown wrappers, yellow paper label (back strip defective) 8vo Philadelphia, David McKay, Publisher, 23 South Ninth Street, 1891-'2 *** PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH INSCRIPTION BY HIM ON TITLE: "Dr. R. M. Bucke first copy completed L. of G. from the author with love Dec: 6 1891". Dr. R M Bucke first copy completed L of G : from the author with love Dec : 6 1891 Leaves of Grass FIRST ISSUE. "Whitman was very ill at the time, and, wanting to see the edition, Horace Traubel had a few copies hurriedly bound in wrappers for him, and Whitman had them sent to intimate friends. This issue is extremely rare and did not exceed fifty copies".--Wells and Goldsmith, Bibliography of Walt Whitman, pp. 34-5. On the fly-leaf Dr. Bucke has transcribed a letter from Walt Whitman sent with this copy dated Camden N. J., Dec. 6 '91. 13 Whitman (Walt) Leaves of Grass, wrappers (back defective and lower wrapper loose), Philadelphia, 1891-'2; Grashalme, in answahl übersetzt von Karl Knortz und T. W. Rolleston, half leather, Zürich, 1889--Leaves of Grass, wrappers, 1897 8vo (3) 14 Whitman (Walt) Leaves of Grass, original wrappers (back-strip defective), Philadelphia, 1891-'2; Natuurleven, vertaald door Maurits Wagenvoort, Haarlem, 1898; Grashalme, in auswahl übersetzt von Karl Knortz und T. W. Rolleston, wrappers, Zurich, 1889; Leaves of Grass, wrappers, Boston, 1897 8vo (4) 15 WHITMAN (WALT) DRUM TAPS, FIRST EDITION, original cloth, FINE COPY, VERY RARE 12mo New-York, 1865 *** SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FLY-LEAF: "Walt Whitman Camden New Jersey Nov: 4 1890". THE FIRST ISSUE containing "Drum Taps" only. On the death of Lincoln, Whitman held up the edition and added "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" with separate title-page and pagination. Monday 5 13th May, 1935 16 Whitman (Walt) Democratic Vistas. Memoranda, FIRST EDITION, original light green wrappers, uncut 12mo Washington, D. C., 1871 17 WHITMAN (WALT) Democratic Vistas, and other papers (Camelot Series), half brown morocco, g. t. 8vo London, 1888 *** PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR with inscription by him on half-title: "Dr. R. M. Bucke from his friend the author Walt Whitman to R M B". Dr: R M Bucke DEMOCRATIC VISTAS from his friend the author Walt Whitman to R M B 18 Whitman (Walt) Passage to India. Leaves of Grass, FIRST EDITION, original green wrappers (back slightly torn at top), uncut, unopened 12mo Washington, D.C., 1871 19 WHITMAN (WALT) MEMORANDA DURING THE WAR, FIRST EDITION, 2 portraits, has the "Remembrance Copy" leaf before title inscribed by Walt Whitman: "[To] Wm. D. O'Connor [from] his friend the author", followed by a printed "Personal Note" (the words in brackets also printed); on p. 47 line 14 the word "written" is corrected by the author to "witless", original cloth, EXTREMELY RARE 8vo Author's Publication, Camden, New Jersey, 1875-'76 *** Inserted are two extracts from the West Jersey Press for 26th Jan., 1876, and 15th March, 1876, relating to Walt Whitman, reprinted in galley form : "It is improbable that more than a hundred copies were issued. The book is exceedingly rare." —Wells and Goldsmith, Bibliography of Whitman, p.19.[*Monday 6 13th May, 1935*] 20 WHITMAN (WALT) TWO RIVULETS, FIRST EDITION, original half leather binding (binding worn, back loose and defective) 12mo Author's Edition, Camden, New Jersey, 1876 *** PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR with inscription by him on fly-leaf: "R. Maurice Bucke from the author with love. London Canada. Sept: 21 1880". The portrait also signed by the author: "Walt Whitman born May 31. 1819". 21 WHITMAN (WALT) SPECIMEN DAYS & COLLECT, FIRST EDITION (FIRST ISSUE), original yellow cloth 8vo Philadelphia: Rees Welsh and Co., 1882-'83 *** WITH INSCRIPTION BY THE AUTHOR ON FLY-LEAF: "Walt Whitman Camden New Jersey Oct: 31 1890". Bookplate of Dr. R. M. Bucke. 22 Whitman (Walt) Elegiac Ode, the words from President Lincoln's Burial Hymn, by Walt Whitman, the music composed by C. Villiers Stanford, red leather large 8vo [1884] *** Inscription on fly-leaf: "To Walt Whitman in remembrance of a pleasant visit to Camden from Donald MacAlister Cambridge England. Sept. 1887". 23 Whitman (Walt) Proof sheets of "November Boughs", with portrait of Walt Whitman in his 70th year, in wrapper endorsed by Dr. Bucke: "Proof slips—sent me as struck off by W. W.— of November Boughs. R. M. B.", unbound *** "November Boughs" was first published at Philadelphia in 1888. 24 WHITMAN (WALT) GOOD-BYE MY FANCY, 2nd Annex to Leaves of Grass, FIRST EDITION, portrait, PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR with inscription by him on fly-leaf: "R. M. Bucke from the author June 20 '91", original maroon cloth 8vo Philadelphia, D. McKay, 1891 25 Whitman (Walt) Selected Poems, portrait, original cloth 12mo New York, Charles L. Webster and Co., 1892 *** Inscription on fly-leaf: "Presented to Dr. R. M. Bucke (in accordance with Walt Whitman's last wishes) by Charles L. Webster & Co. 5. April, 1892". 26 Whitman (Walt) Calamus. A series of letters written during the years 1868-1880 by Walt Whitman to a young friend (Peter Doyle) edited with an introduction by R. M. Bucke, M.D., one of Whitman's literary executors, no. 1 of 35 large paper copies signed by the editor, boards, cloth back 8vo Boston, 1897 27 Whitman (Walt) The Wound Dresser. A series of Letters written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion. Edited by R. M. Bucke, FIRST EDITION (FIRST ISSUE), portraits, lower margin of several leaves damaged, original cloth 8vo Boston, Small, Maynard and Company, 1898 Monday 7 13th May, 1935 28 Whitman (Walt) Complete Prose Works, original cloth, Philadelphia, 1892; Leaves of Grass, wrappers, Philadelphia, n. d.; Poems, selected and edited by W. M. Rossetti, cloth (binding torn), 1868; Selected Poems, Edited by Ernest Rhys, presentation copy from the editor to Dr. Bucke with inscription, cloth, 1886 8vo (4) 29 Whitman (Walt) Type-written Copies of 32 letters from Walt Whitman to Dr. Bucke, 1883-84, on 12 folio sheets [*F 3*]Monday 8 13th May, 1935 II. BOOKS RELATING TO WALT WHITMAN OR WITH INSCRIPTIONS BY HIM 30 BUCKE (DR. R. M.) WALT WHITMAN 8vo Philadelphia, 1883 *** Two copies of the printed book mounted on folio sheets of blank paper to make a single text ready for corrections or additions. At the end is a MS. transcript of Chapter III of the printed version (pp. 175-190) on 21 folio sheets WITH NUMEROUS CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS BY WALT WHITMAN HIMSELF. For instance, the first 9 lines of the note at foot of p. 175 down to the words "sulkily adds" are in his hand. ALSO TWO LONG PASSAGES AT THE END OF CHAPTER III ARE WRITTEN BY WALT WHITMAN (1) From line 24 of page 187 "While no reader of Leaves of Grass", etc., down to line 16 of the following page "as 'eligible' as any?" (1 p. folio of manuscript) (2) From line 10 of p. 189 "I have been so occupied with the features portrayed", etc., down to the end of the chapter on line 12 of the following page (1⅓ pp. folio of manuscript). 31 Bucke (R. M.) Walt Whitman, portraits and plates, signature of Walt Whitman on fly-leaf, tear in one leaf (pp. 135-6), original cloth 8vo Philadelphia, 1883 32 Bucke (R. M.) Walt Whitman, to which is added English critics on Walt Whitman, edited by E. Dowden, portrait and plates, bookplate of R. M. Bucke, cloth, Glasgow, 1884—Kennedy (W. S.) Reminiscences of Walt Whitman, cloth, 1896—Burroughs (John) Notes on Walt Whitman as poet and person, cloth, New York, 1867—Guthrie (W. N.) Walt Whitman as religious and moral teacher, wrappers, Cincinnati, 1897 8vo (4) 33 BUCKE (R. M.) A scrap-album of cutting from newspapers and other periodicals collected by Dr. Bucke with upwards of 550 pieces (articles, lectures, poems, etc.) by or relating to Walt Whitman. Among them (p. 104) is a poem "Patroling Barnegat" by Walt Whitman, inscribed by Dr. Bucke "unpublished— private. Received from Walt June 3. 1880". On p. 517 is another single-sheet poem by Walt Whitman, "Thanks in old age" with inscription "pub'd Nov. 24". At p. 588 is a proof of an article by Walt Whitman on his friend W. D. O'Connor [d. 9 May 1889] with note "Reached me from W. W. 27th Sept. in letter dated 24th and 25th Sept. R. M. B.". 3a Monday 9 13th May, 1935 34 EPICTETUS. ENCHEIRIDION. Translated from the Greek by T. W. H. Rolleston, limp cloth wrappers 8vo London, 1881 *** WALT WHITMAN'S COPY with his signature on title and the note: "E. is not (this trans: w'd say) in the interest of the ascetic doctrines. Be Bold—Be Bold—Be bold—be not too bold". On the fly-leaf is another inscription by Whitman: "Walt Whitman (sent me by my friend the translator T. W. H. Rolleston from Dresden, Saxony) 1881". Below is a later note by him: "March 1886—T. W. R. is now in Ireland (Delgany, County Wicklow)—& edits the Dublin University Review". And another, still later: "from 1881 to '88—Have had this little vol. at hand or in my hand often all these years—have read it over and over and over". On another fly-leaf is another long signed note by Walt Whitman about his failing health, dated Nov. 7 '89. Many marginal markings by Walt Whitman throughout. 35 Houghton (Lord) A selection from his Works (Moxon's Miniature Poets), half leather 8vo London, 1868 *** Presentation Copy from the author to Walt Whitman, with inscription on half-title: "To Walt Whitman, with respects and regards of Richard Monckton Milnes Lord Houghton. Philadelphia. Nov. 6th 1875". 36 Johnston (John) Diary Notes of a visit to Walt Whitman, portraits and plates, presentation copy to Dr. Bucke, cloth, 1898—Donaldson (T.) Walt Whitman the Man, portrait and facsimiles, buckram, New York, 1896—Holmes (E.) Walt Whitman's Poetry. A study and a selection, cloth, 1902; and others on Walt Whitman 8vo (14) 37. Mazzini (Joseph) Essays, edited by W. Clarke (Camelot series), cloth 8vo London, 1887 *** Walt Whitman's copy with note by Dr. Bucke on half-title: "This little volume was sent to me Aug. '89 by Walt Whitman, who had just been reading it—the marginal marking of passages is (as far as I know) entirely by him. R. M. Bucke. London Asylum. 21 Aug. '89". 38 Newspapers. Three old Newspapers kept by Walt Whitman. The New-York Mercury for 18 March, 1754, The Boston Gazette for 12 March, 1770, and the American Mercury for 18 April, 1799; tears in folds 39 Newspaper Cuttings. Two large scrap-books containing about 1,500 newspaper clippings relating to Walt Whitman from the year 1854 to his death in 1892, bound in half red leather folio (2) 40 Newspaper Cuttings. A collection of cuttings from Newspapers relating to Walt Whitman 1865-67 3bMonday 10 13th May, 1935 41 Pamphlets relating to Walt Whitman. A Collection of seven published between 1883-96, two of them being presentation copies to Walt Whitman with inscriptions 8vo (7) 42 PHOTOGRAPHS. Five large and fine photographs of Walt Whitman taken in September, 1887, all signed and dated by the poet, about 9in. by 7¼in. [See FRONTISPIECE] 43 PHOTOGRAPHS. Six photographs of Walt Whitman, including one signed "Walt Whitman Sept: 7 1891" (7⅝in. by 6in.), one taken in 1853 and 2 taken with Peter Doyle; also 8 other photographs or prints connected with Walt Whitman (14) 44 PHOTOGRAPHS. An album containing 29 photographs or engravings of Walt Whitman, 1855-1883; also phototypes of his father and mother, preserved on sunk mounts, half leather, g. e., bookplate of Dr. R. M. Bucke 4to (13in. by 11in.) 45 PHOTOGRAPHS. Four photographs of Walt Whitman, all with autograph inscriptions (1) "Winter of 1863 Washington. D.C.". (2) "Walt Whitman. Sarnia, June 23 1880". (3) "Walt Whitman June 1 '87". (4) "Walt Whitman" (no place or year, but taken in extreme old age) 46 PHOTOGRAPHS. A collection of 45 photographs and other portraits of Walt Whitman. 47 Photographs, etc. A collection of 15 photographs or prints relating to Walt Whitman. Photographs of Whitman's house in Camden, New Jersey; views of his tomb; photograph of his brother George (circa 1862) in uniform; portraits of friends, etc. Also a small collection of newspaper clippings relating to Walt Whitman 48 SADI. Flowers culled from the Gulistan, or Rose Garden, and from The Bostan, or Pleasure Garden of Sadi, several preliminary leaves missing, title stained, half leather (wrappers bound in) 16mo London, 1876 *** Walt Whitman's copy with his signature on title and inscription by him on half-title: "Walt Whitman (from Thos. Dixon, Sunderland, England. April '77)." On the same leaf is the inscription (presumably by T. Dixon) "The Greetings of a few kindred souls here to thee in 1877". 49 Whitman (Walt) Walt Whitman Fellowship Papers. Years 1-5 (no. 7 of fifth year wanting), unbound 8vo 1894-99 50 Willard (Edward) Julius Caesar, an historical tragedy, cloth 8vo Philadelphia, 1890 *** Presentation copy with inscription on title (not autograph): "Walter Whitman, with compliments of the Author". and signature: "Edward Willard" below. Monday 11 13th May, 1935 III. AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, NOTES AND MANUSCRIPTS BY WALT WHITMAN 51 WHITMAN (WALT) 1½ pp. folio and 1 p. 4to of autograph autobiographical matter giving an account of his life in New Orleans in 1848 with his brother Jefferson while engaged on the staff of "The Crescent": " . . . . For a few weeks after I commenced my duties at New Orleans, matters went on very pleasantly. —People seemed to treat me kindly . . . My health was most capital; I frequently thought indeed that I felt better than ever before in my life . . . . Through some unaccountable means, however, both H. and M.C., after a while, exhibited a singular sort of coldness toward me . . . My own pride was touched, and I met their conduct by equal haughtiness on my part", etc. Also a portion of an autograph essay, 1 p. 4to, and a "Family Record", 2 11. 4to, with entries of the births and marriages of members of the Whitman family 52 WHITMAN (WALT) HIS SCRAP-BOOK, consisting of extracted articles from magazines WITH A LARGE NUMBER OF AUTOGRAPH MS. NOTES IN THE MARGINS OR ON INSERTED BLANK LEAVES The MS. additions are chiefly critical notes on other authors, many of them long and of great interest. Among them are notes on Homer and Shakespeare, Dryden, Dr. Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Dr. Priestly, Keats, Richter, Francis Wright, etc. In a long note on Goethe filling five pages he writes: "Here is now (January 1856) my opinion of Goethe: He is the most profound reviewer of Life known.—To him life, things, the mind, death, people, are all studies, dissections, exhibitions. These he enters upon with unequalled coolness and depth of penetration. As a critic he stands apart from all men, and criticises them. He is the first great critic and the fountain of modern criticism. Yet Goethe will never be well-beloved of his fellows. Perhaps he knows too much. I can fancy him not being well beloved of Nature for the same reason. A calm and mighty person whose anatomical considerations of the body are not enclosed by superior considerations makes the perfect surgeon and operator upon the body upon all occasions. So Goethe operates upon the world . . . his office is great . . . what indeed is greater?", etc. Another long note begins: "What are inextricable from the British poets are the ideas of royalty and aristocracy, the ideas of the radical division of those who serve from those who are served, and a continual recognition of the principles at the bases of monarchy and the societies and beliefs of caste", etc. And another: "Homer and Shakespeare deserve all that has been bestowed upon them. They did what was to be done and did the work divinely. Homer poetized great wars, persons, events, throwing together in perfect proportion a perfect poem, noisy, muscular, manly, amative, an amusement, and excitement. Shakespeare, the gentle, the sweet, musical, well-beloved Shakespeare, delineated characters; they are better done by him than by any other poet at any time . . . Could there not be a poet of America doing no less than but different from either of them? Stamping this age, and so all ages, in his poems?", etc.Monday 12 13th May, 1935 53 WHITMAN (WALT) LARGE COLLECTION OF LOOSE AUTOGRAPH NOTES BY WALT WHITMAN, ideas for poems, fragments of poems, list of words to be used and other memoranda. Also a large collection of printed articles from magazines and newspapers cut out and preserved by Whitman with markings or marginal notes, kept in five cardboard files A specimen MS. note is a self-criticism by Whitman in file numbered 5, dated Feb. 25th, '57: "Dined with Hector Tyndale. Asked H.T. where he thought I needed particular attention to be directed for my improvement—where I could especially be bettered in my poems— He said—'In massiveness, breadth, large, sweeping effects without regard to details,—as in the Cathedral at York (he said) I came away with great impressions of its largeness, solidity and spaciousness, without troubling myself with its parts'. Asked F. le B. same question—viz. what I most lacked—He said— 'In euphony—Your poems seem to me to be full of the raw material of poems, but crude and wanting finish and rhythm'. Below is the note: Put in my poems American things, idioms, materials, persons, groups, minerals, vegetables, animals, etc. In the same file is the following MS. note on Longfellow: The Song of Hiawatha by H. W. Longfellow—A pleasing ripply poem— the measure, the absence of ideas, the Indian process of thought, the droning metre, the sleepy misty woody character, the traditions, pleased me well enough. With the same lot is another file containing a printed list of subscribers to Walt Whitman's Buggy and Horse given him Sept. 15, 1885, and other printed scraps 54 WHITMAN (WALT) WALT WHITMAN'S LECTURES, AN AUTOGRAPH ADVERTISEMENT IN POSTER FORM OF A PROPOSED SERIES OF LECTURES ON AMERICA WRITTEN ON A SHEET OF THICK PINK PAPER (6in. by 3⅝in.), priced 15 cents and dated Brooklyn, New York, 1858 WALT WHITMAN'S LECTURES: I desire to go by degrees through all these States, especially West and South, and through Kanada: lecturing (my own way) henceforth my employment, my means of earning my living—subject to the work elsewhere alluded to that takes precedence . . . AMERICA A Programme, etc. Some plan I seek, to have the vocal delivery of my Lectures free, but at present a low price of admission, one dime—or my fee for reciting here $10 (when any distance expences in addition). Each lecture will be printed with its recitation needing to be carefully perused afterward to be understood. I personally sell the printed copies. On the back of the sheet Walt Whitman has written in a very small crabbed hand a long note on Leaves of Grass and on his lectures [See ILLUSTRATION] 15 cents. [I greet you] [at the] [Beginning] [of the] [great ??] [?] Walt Whitman's Lectures. I desire to go by degrees, through all These States, especially West and South, and through Kanada: Lecturing, (my own way,) henceforth my employment, my means of earning my living, —subject to the work elsewhere alluded to that takes precedence.— Of This, or through the list, present and to to come, (See last page of cover) any will be recited before any society or association of friends, or at the defrayment of some special person. America, A Programme etc. Some [way] plan I seek, to have the vocal delivery of my Lectures free [to all[?]] but at present a low price of admission, One Dime—Or my fee for reciting, [?] here, $10, (when any distance expenses in addition.) Each Lecture will be printed with its recitation; [for all need to[?]] needing to be carefully perused afterward to be understood. I personally sell the printed copies. Brooklyn, New York, 1858. Trade supplied by Dr. Watt, 162 Nassau at New York. [*54*]Monday 13 13th May, 1935 55 WHITMAN (WALT) A. L. to his mother (not signed ; ? incomplete), 2 pp. 4to, written from the Attorney General's Office, Washington, without date (the printed date 186- not filled in) : " . . . William O'Connor has returned, & has brought me news from you all, & about Jeff's offer to go to St. Louis. I don't know what to advise about it--but feel as if I was rather in favor of accepting the offer. Jeff must take it cool, & not get excited about it--after he has decided which to do, must go ahead for good, & not doubt his decision, or fear he has done wrong, etc. . . . Wm O'Connor was much pleased with his visit . . . he is a good fellow, & has been a good friend to me . . . I was down at the hospital Sunday afternoon . . . One soldier 12th Infantry was dying while I was there . . . I sat by him about half an hour . . . It was a fine afternoon, & very still in the ward--& off a block or so . . . they were ringing a chime of bells . . . playing a sort of tune, sounded loud & joyful--I sat and listened for a long while--the poor dying man kept looking at me with such a look" Sold with the above are portions of 3 other holograph letters to his mother and several other scraps 56 WHITMAN (WALT) A. L. s. to his brother George, 4pp. 8vo, July 12th, 1861. Giving details of his mother's health and of other members of the family . . . " We are all very glad the 13th is coming home. There have been so many accounts of shameful negligence, or worse, in the commissariat of your reg't. that there must be something in it--notwithstanding you speak very lightly of the complaints in your letters. The Eagle of course makes the worst of it, every day, to stop men from enlisting. All of us here think the rebellion as good as broke--no matter if the war does continue for months yet." Small piece torn from corner and small hole in first leaf 57 WHITMAN (WALT) SIX LONG AND INTIMATE AUTOGRAPH LETTERS FROM WALT WHITMAN TO HIS FRIEND TOM SAWYER, A SOLDIER IN THE SECESSION WAR. He was a sergeant in Co. C. of the 11th Mass. Volunteers and had probably been in the army from the outbreak of the war. It seems that he was taken to Armory Square hospital about the end of '62 or beginning of '63 either sick or wounded, and his friendship with Whitman began there. One is date from Washington 27 March, 1863, four have been given various dates in 1863 by Dr. Bucke, and the longest and most important (quoted in part last in the description below) is without date In one (dated by Dr. Bucke 21 April, 1863) he writes : As to me . . . I manage to pay my way here in Washington [with] what I make writing letters for the New York papers etc. when I stopped here last January . . . I thought I would . . . see if I could not get some berth, clerkship or something--but I have not pushed strong enough . . . and I don't know as I could be satisfied with the life of a clerk . . . anyhow. So I have hung along here ever since. I guess I enjoy a kind of vagabond life any how. I go around some nights when the spirit moves me, sometimes to the gay places, just to see the sights, Tom I wish you was here--Somehow I dont find the comrade that suits me to a dot--and I wont have any other, not for good. In one passage in a long letter without date he writes : Tom, I sometimes feel as if I didnt want to live--life would have no charm for me, if this country should fail after all and be reduced to take a third rate position to be domineered over by England & France & the haughty nations of Europe etc, and we unable to help ourselves . . . This country I hope would spend her last drop of blood and last dollar rather than submit to such humiliation.[*Monday 14 13th May, 1935*] LOT 57--continued. In another letter, also without date, he writes : Dear comrade, you must not forget me. My love you have in life or death forever. I dont know how you feel about it, but it is the wish of my heart to have your friendship, and also that if you should come safe out of this war, we should come together again in some place where we could make our living, and be true comrades, and never be separated while life lasts--and take Lew Brown too, and never separate from him. Or if things are not so to be, if you get these lines, my dear darling comrade, and any thing should go wrong, so that we do not meet again here on earth, it seems to me (the way I feel now) that my soul could never be entirely happy, even in the world to come, without you, dear comrade. God bless you, Tom, and preserve you through the perils of the fight. Sold with this lot are three letters from Thomas P. Sawyer, two to Walt Whitman and another *** A MOST IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING SERIES OF WHITMAN LETTERS. 57A WHITMAN (WALT) HOLOGRAPH ACCOUNT OF THE SCENE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES at the adjournment of the 37th Congress on the 4 March 1863, MANUSCRIPT IN PENCIL, 13 ll. 12mo, unbound 1863 58 WHITMAN (WALT) AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO BETHUEL SMITH, a cavalryman in the Secession War, about 3 pp. 8vo (written on several sheets of paper), dated by Dr. Bucke "Sept. '63". Bethuel Smith was wounded on 11th June and was taken to Armory Square hospital, where he was nursed by Whitman " . . . if you get this you must write to me. Thu. You need not mind ceremony between dear friends, for that I hope we are, Thuey, for all the difference in our ages . . . I am very well . . . & only need some employment, clerkship or something, at fair wages to make things go agreeable with me --no, there is one thing more I need & that is Thuey, for I believe I am quite a fool, I miss you so." ANOTHER A. L. TO THE SAME (in pencil), without date, written on 2 blank pages of a letter to him, dated 10 Dec. 1874, from Bethuel Smith's mother : " . . . Years have passed away but friendship formed in . . . sickness . . . or with the wounded in hospital comes up again fresh and living as ever & as if it cannot pass away. Bethuel, dear comrade, how I should like to see you. I want to hear all about you . . . I worked in Washington after the war--had a stroke of paralysis now two years since, was getting better, then some serious troubles happened to me & I fell back again-- I have left Brooklyn & Washington for good & am now laid up here--I am neither well enough to do any work nor sick enough to give up--go out some though lame & keep a pretty good heart hoping for better times." With the above are sold 9 letters from Bethuel Smith to Walt Whitman (mostly 1863-4), 3 letters from Bethuel Smith's mother to Walt Whitman, and another 60 WHITMAN (WALT) A. L. s., 2 pp. 12mo, to his mother, dated Friday 6th [? May, 1864] : " . . . there is an extra out here that Grant has advanced his army . . . to the region of the Chancellorsville battle of just a year ago & has either flanked Lee . . . or else that Lee has hurried back . . . to Richmond. Whether there is any thing in this story or not, I can't tell--the city is full of rumors . . . the Government is not in receipt of any information to-day--Grant has taken the reins entirely in his own hands--he is really dictator at present--we shall hear something important within two or three days--Grant is very secretive indeed--he bothers himself very little about sending news even to the President or Stanton--time only can develop his plans--I still think he is going to take Richmond & soon." [See ILLUSTRATION] 2 o'clock p m Friday 6th Mother just as I put this letter in the mail, there is an extra out here that Grant has advanced his army or a portion of it to the region of the Chancellorsville battle of just a years ago & has either flanked Lee as they call it (got in on his army between him & Richmond) --or else that Lee has hurried back, or is hurrying back to Richmond -- -- whether there is any thing in this story or not, I can't tell--the city is full of rumors & this may be one of them -- the government is not in receipt of any information to-day -- Grant has taken the reins entirely in his own hands -- he is really Dictator at present -- we shall hear something important within two or three days -- Grant is very secretive indeed -- he bothers himself very little about sending news even to the President or Stanton -- -- time only can develop his plans -- I still think he is going to take Richmond & soon. (but I may be mistaken as I have been in past)-- Well dearest Mother keep up good courage good bye for present. I wish you would write soon ---- Walt [*LOT 60*]Monday 16 13th May, 1935 61 WHITMAN (WALT) Two A. Ls. s. (without signature), written on both sides of a 4to sheet. One, dated 2 Oct. [1868] is to "Dear friend Harry Hurt": . . . "Harry, you would much enjoy going round N.Y. with me, if it were possible, & then how much I should like having you with me. This great city, with all its crowds, & splendor, & Broadway fashion, & women, & amusements, & the river & bay, & shipping, & the many magnificent new buildings, & Central Park & 5th Avenue & the endless processions of private vehicles & the finest teams I ever saw for miles long of a fine afternoon—altogether they make up a show that I can richly spend a month in enjoying—for a change from my Washington life. I sometimes think I am the particular man who enjoys the show of all these things in N.Y. more than any other mortal—as if it was all got up just for me to observe and study" . . . On the other side is another letter: Dear Lewy, I will write you just a line to let you know I have not forgotten you. I am here on leave, & shall stay nearly all this month. Duffy is here driving on Broadway & 5th Av. line. He has been up the Hudson river this summer driving hotel coach . . . Tell Johnny Miller there is still a sprinkling of the old Broadway drivers left. Balky Bill, Fred Kelly, Charley McLaughlin, Tom Riley, Prodigal, Sandy etc are still here. Frank McKinney & several other old drivers are with Adams Express" [See ILLUSTRATION] 62 WHITMAN (WALT) A personal Autograph Note on 2 scraps of paper [1871]: "W.W. is now fifty-two years old. No worldly aim has engrossed his life. He is still unmarried. None of the usual ardor of business ambition, the acquisition of money, or the claims of society, pleasure, nor even the attractions of culture or art seem to have enslaved him. The thought of making this work* has spanned as it were the whole horizon of his life almost since boyhood." *Presumably Leaves of Grass 63 WHITMAN (WALT) A long A. L. s. to his mother, 2 pp. 4to, written in pencil, from Washington 28 March 1873, a month after the stroke which ultimately caused his retirement from the Government service and 2 months before his mother's death in May of the same year: ". . . I think I am feeling better to-day, & more like myself . . . Charles Eldridge will be here in a few minutes, & bring the morning papers— he comes & sits a few minutes every morning before going to work . . . he & Peter Doyle hold out through every thing—most of the rest have got tired & stopt coming—(which is just as well). I go over to the office about 12 or 1 most every day but only for a few minutes—have not resumed work there yet, but hope to Monday . . . it is so slow, so aggravating to be disabled . . . when one's mind & will are just as clear as ever", etc. 64 WHITMAN (WALT) A SERIES OF 41 AUTOGRAPH POSTCARDS, SIGNED WITH INITIALS TO PETER DOYLE, all written from 431 Stevens St., Camden, New Jersey, dated with day of month but without year; many with details of his health and spirits Camden. N. Jersey May 8. Noon. Every thing pretty much the same. Rather a bad week with me— no improvement—great distress in head & left side at intervals—cannot write much to-day—will do better next time. Whitman's letters to Peter Doyle, one of his most intimate friends, baggage-master on the Colonial and Federal express from Washington to Boston, were published in 1897, with an introduction by Dr. R. M. Bucke, under the title Calamus. Whitman went to live at 431 Stevens Street in September, 1873. Oct 2. Dear [boy] friend Harry Hurt, I thought I would just drop you a line—for yourself—but no doubt you [hear from] keep fully posted [me often] about me by my letters to Pete, as I [supp] am willing you or any of my [dear] particular friends who wish to, should read them. (He knows who I would be willing should read them —I leave it to him) — Harry, you would much enjoy going round N.Y. with me, if it were possible, & then how much I should like having you with me. This great city, with all its crowds, & splendor, & Broadway fashion, & women, & amusements, & the river & bay, & shipping. [&] [the swarms of vehicles], & [mag] the many magnificent new buildings, & [the long slow] Central Park & 5th Avenue, & the [strong] endless processions of private vehicles & the [most] finest teams I ever saw, for miles long of a fine afternoon—altogether they make up a show that I can richly spend a month in enjoying— for a change from my Washington life. I sometimes think I am the particular man who enjoys the show of all these things in N.Y. more than any other mortal—as if it was all got up [especially] just for [?] me to observe & study. Harry I wish when you see Ben. Thompson, conductor, you would say [to him] I sent him my love, & have not forgot him. Let him read this letter. I send him a [N] newspaper, the N.Y. Clipper. I have marked the piece about the Five Points. I went down there myself just for fun, three nights ago, with a friend of mine, a policeman, & that account in the Clipper is a very good 61 (reduced)1881 Camden Friday Evn'g Feb: 11- Dear Hank—yours of 9th rec'd—am a little surprised you take to L of G[?] so quickly—I guess it is because the last five years has been preparing & fixing the ground, more & more & more—& now that the seed is dropt in it sprouts quickly—my own feeling ab't my book is that it makes (tries to make) every fellow see himself & see that he has got to work out his salvation himself—has got to pull the oars & hold the plow or swing the axe himself—& that the [real] blessings of life are not the fictions generally supposed, but are real & are mostly within reach of all—you chew on this Hank I am still feeling under the weather —my appetite is fair, (when I can get what I like)—& sleep middling, but I am as weak as a cat, & dull half-dizzy spells every day —I sent off two sets of books to-day, got the money for them—one set to a big lady in England—I enclose you a slip of a piece out to-morrow in the NY Critic, about the old man Carlyle, 85-years old, the grandest writer in England, just dead—they sent for me to write it (+10 worth)—you read it carefully - read it twice— then show it to your mother, I want her to read it, without fail—(Hank you do not appreciate your mother —there is not a nobler woman in Jersey)—your Walt 66 Monday 17 13th May, 1935 65 WHITMAN (WALT) Autograph letter to William Stansberry, a Soldier in the Secession War, who was nursed by Whitman in Armory Square hospital in 1865, 3 pp. 8vo, dated 20 May, 1874: "Your letter of May 14 has come to hand today reminding me of your being in Armory Square Hospital & of my visits there, & meeting you in '65. Your letter strangely, deeply, touched me. It takes me back to the scenes of ten years ago, in the war, the hospitals of Washington & . . . the never-to-be-told sights of suffering & death . . . Dear Comrade, you do me good by your loving wishes & feelings to me in your letter . . . whether we shall ever meet each other is doubtful—probably we never will—but I feel that we should both be happy if we could be together— (I find there are some that it is just comfort enough to be together, almost without any thing else) . . . I remain about the same in my sickness. I sleep & eat pretty well—go about some, look stout & red (though looking now very old & gray, but that is nothing new)—weigh 185 now—am badly lamed in my left leg, & have bad spells, occasionally days, of feebleness, distress in head etc. I think I shall get well yet, but may not: Have been laid up here a year doing nothing except a little writing . . . I am well situated here— but very lonesome—have no near friends (in the deepest sense) here at hand. My mother died here a year ago—a sorrow from which I have never entirely recovered & likely never shall—She was an unusually noble, cheerful woman, very proud-spirited & generous—am poor (yet with a little income & means just enough to pay my way with strict economy to be independent of want)." Sold with the above are four letters from William Stansberry to Walt Whitman, 1873-5, and another 66 WHITMAN (WALT) A VERY FINE COLLECTION OF 29 A.Ls. S. (GENERALLY SIGNED "WALT", OR WITH INITIALS) WRITTEN DURING THE YEARS 1876-1884 BY WALT WHITMAN TO HIS YOUNG FRIEND HARRY STAFFORD. The letters occupy about 54 pp. 8vo, 4to, or folio, and are variously addressed ("Dear boy Harry", "Dear Harry", "Dear Comrade and Dear Son", "Dear Hank") THIS REMARKABLE SERIES OF LETTERS IS ONLY COMPARABLE TO THE AUTHOR'S FAMOUS LETTERS TO PETER DOYLE, WHICH WERE PUBLISHED BY DR. BUCKE UNDER THE TITLE "CALAMUS" IT IS IMPOSSIBLE WITHIN THE LIMITS OF A SALE CATALOGUE TO GIVE AN ADEQUATE ACCOUNT OF THE EXCEPTIONAL INTEREST OF THIS INTIMATE SERIES OF LETTERS Camden, Feb. 28 [No year] Dear boy Harry . . . . I have just rec'd yours of 26—a little wild & nervous & uncertain some parts, (but I am always glad to get any letters from you dear boy— Harry you certainly know well enough you have my best honorable loving friendship settled—Of the past I think only of the comforting soothing things of it all—I go back to the times at Timber Creek beginning most five years ago & the banks and spring & my hobbling down the old lane—& how I took a good turn there & commenced to get slowly but surely better, healthier stronger—Dear Hank I realise plainly that if I had not known you—if it hadn't been for you & our friendship & my going down there summers to the Creek with you—and living there with your folks & the kindness of your mother & cheering me up—I believe I should not be a living man to-day—I think & remember deeply these things & they comfort me—& you my darling boy are the central figure of them all. Of the occasional ridiculous little storms & squalls of the past I have quite discarded them from my memory—& I hope you will too— the other recollections overtop them altogether, & occupy the only permanent place in my heart—as a manly loving friendship for you does also & will while life lasts" . . . .Monday 18 13th May, 1935 Lot 66--continued. Camden Dec.1. [1880] . . . . "A rascally publisher in New York named Worthington has been printing & selling a cheaper edition of my book for his own profit; no benefit to me at all -- & it has been going on privately for a year . . . of course it is quite a hurt to me -- will lead to a law suit, as I shall have to sue him & I hate getting into law -- it is almost as bad to me to sue as to be sued" . . . . In a letter written in 1881 he explains the theories worked out in Leaves of Grass Camden 11 Feb. [1881.] . . . . Am a little surprised you take to L. of G. so quickly. I guess it is because the last five years has been preparing & fixing the ground more & more & more -- & now that the seed is dropt in it sprouts quickly -- my own feeling about my book is that it makes (tries to make) every fellow see himself & see that he has got to work out his salvation himself -- has got to pull the oars & hold the plow or swing the axe himself -- and that the real blessings of life are not the fictions generally supposed, but are real & are mostly within reach of all . . . I am still feeling under the weather . . . I am as weak as a cat & dull half-dizzy spells every day -- I sent off two sets of books to-day . . . one set to a big lady in England. I enclose you a slip of a piece out to-morrow in the N.Y. Critic about the old man Carlyle, 85 years old, the grandest writer in England, just dead -- they sent for me to write it ($10 worth)" . . . . [SEE ILLUSTRATION] In another letter also written in 1881 he defines his attitude to religion 431 Stevens Street Camden Jan. 27 [1881]. . . . . "Take it easy about The minister & the Ingersoll business -- the best answer you can make is to be quiet & good natured & even attentive & not get mad worth a cent -- True religion (the most beautiful thing in the whole world & the best part of any man's or woman's or boy's character) consists in what one does square and kind & generous & honorable all days, all the time, & especially with his own folks & associates & with the poor & illiterate & in devout meditation & silent thoughts of God & death -- & not at all in what he says, nor in Sunday or prayer meeting gas -- my own opinion is that Ingersoll talks too much on his side -- a good life steady trying to do fair & a sweet tolerant liberal disposition, shines like the sun, tastes like the fresh air of a May morning, blooms like a perfect little flower by the road-side -- & all the talking and powowing both sides amounts to little or nothing". . . . In another letter he mentions Oscar Wilde, who visited him in 1882 Camden Jan. 25 '82 . . . . You say you wrote a blue letter but didn't send it to me -- dear boy, the only way is to dash ahead and "whistle dull cares away" -- after all its mostly in oneself one gets blue & not from outside -- life is like the weather -- you've got to take what comes, & you can make it all go pretty well if [you] only think so (& provide in reason for rain & snow). I wish it was so you could all your life come in & see me often for an hour or two -- you see I think I understand you better than any one (& like you more too) -- (you may not fancy so, but it is so) -- & I believe, Hank, there are many things, confidences, questions, candid says you would like to have with me, you have never yet broached -- me the same. Have you read about Oscar Wilde? He has been to see me & spent an afternoon. He is a fine large handsome youngster. Had the good sense to take a great fancy to me! . . . . (you say you know you are a great fool -- don't you know every cute fellow secretly knows that about himself -- I do)." Monday 19 13th May, 1935 67 WHITMAN (Walt) A. L.s. to Peter Doyle, 1 p. 8vo Kirkwood, New Jersey. July 2 [1877] Dear boy Pete I still keep pretty well, & am again down here at the farm in the country, for a couple of weeks, & to stay over 4th of July . . . As I write this . . . it is a beautiful bright breezy forenoon -- & I am going now down to the creek & spring to take a bath -- it is about 90 rods distant, & I walk there & back -- Love, love, love Your old Walt I still make my headquarters in Camden. With this lot are sold transcripts of letters written by Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle in 1868 made in pencil by Dr. Bucke 5011. 67A WHITMAN ( WALT) A collection of Autograph Notes on a variety of topics, " Business", the officials of Philadelphia, the Italian tragedian Modena, the Presidential Election of 1884, a visit to New York in 1878, etc., 26 pieces "Visit to N. Y. '78, July 3. Visited the Tribune newspaper office to read 'proof'. Up, up, up, in the elevator some eight or nine stories, to the top of the tall tower. Then the most wonderful expanse & views! A living map, indeed -- all New York and Brooklyn, and all the waters and lands adjacent for twenty miles in every direction. My thoughts of the beauty and amplitude of these bay & river surroundings confirmed. Other thoughts also confirmed -- that of a fitter name, for instance Mannahatta -- "the place around which there are hurried and joyous waters continually" -- (that's the sense of the old aboriginal word) . . . was treated with much courtesy by Whitelaw Reid, the Editor, who placed his cab at my disposal. Had a pleasant evening drive through the Park -- it being on my way home." 68 WHITMAN (Walt) Nine Autograph Postcards, signed with initials, to Harry Lamb Stafford, written during the years 1878-1884, from Camden and New York: New York City. Aug. 5 [1881] . . . . have been (a little) at Long Branch and Rockaway, but most of the time down on Long Island exploring the places where I was born (& the Whitmans etc for 250 years) -- had a good time -- am now here in New York -- am going on to Boston very soon to print book . . . Camden. Saturday night. Dec. 8 [1883.] . . . . It is dark & rainy & foggy & miserable outside weather -- but I have had a good supper & am sitting up here feeling jolly & thankful enough (yet a little lonesome) . . . . In his will dated 29 June, 1888, Walt Whitman left his gold watch to "Harry Stafford of Marlton, New Jersey" 69 Whitman (Walt) Strike and Tramp Questions of the eighteen-seventies. A collection of cuttings and articles on these questions from magazines and newspapers, some with markings or notes by Walt Whitman, and a few Autograph Notes on scraps of paper, e.g.: " I find a large class of our talkers & writers, probably the largest class, always taking for granted that plenty of active manufactures, plenty of money and foreign markets, and a demand by the factories, stores etc for millions of employees, are the crowning result and triumph of a nation." "In America the dangers are (or, shall I say, have been?) from the existence of slavery & from the huge collection of ignorant & non-owning persons, generally immigrants, in the great cities."[*Monday 20 13th May, 1935*] 70 WHITMAN (WALT) Two holograph Postcards to Peter Doyle, one written from Canada, where he was staying with Dr. Bucke : London. Ontario. Canada July 24 [1880] p.m. Am all right again for me--was sick a bit three weeks--at times pretty bad--was well taken care of here--the best of friends both Dr. and Mrs. B (as human as I ever met, both)--Monday morning next I start on a long Lake & St. Lawrence river trip, 900 miles (mostly by steamer, comfortable, I reckon)--gone nearly three weeks, then back here--May write you from Quebec--your papers come--W.W. With this lot are 30 envelopes addressed by Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 9 envelopes to Harry Lamb Stafford and 5 envelopes to Thomas Nicholson 71 WHITMAN (WALT) AUTOGRAPH NOTES (IN PENCIL) ON LONDON, ONTARIO, CANADA, made during his stay there with Dr. Bucke in 1880, 9 ll. : "London. 1880. Then about drinking habits. My observations and goings around here pretty freely indoors and out, note so far a singular scarcity of cases of intemperance ; I have seen no drunken man (nor drunken women)--have run across no besotted or low or filthy quarters of the town either. I should say it was an unusually temperate city . . . . By what I am told London would show finely to my eyes in September, from the great annual fair, when there is a gathering of the farmers, and their families, men and women, especially the young people--altogether many thousands and the streets all alive with them for several days. On this occasion one would get a direct view of the average people, the humanity of this part of Canada (the main thing of every country). By what I am told I am sure this average would please me much and would be very high." 72 WHITMAN (WALT) DIARY IN CANADA. THE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT NOTES AND MEMORANDA MADE DURING HIS STAY IN CANADA WITH DR. BUCKE IN 1880. WRITTEN MOSTLY IN PENCIL ON 40 ll. OR SCRAPS OR PAPER *** This diary was edited by W. S. Kennedy and published at Boston in 1904. The manuscript is incomplete, the last entry being under the date Canada 10-14 July [1880]. A printed copy of the diary up to that date in galley form accompanies the lot. 72A WHITMAN (WALT) NOTES OF A TRIP ON THE ST. LAWRENCE AND SAGUENAY RIVERS, JULY-AUGUST, 1880, HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT in pencil on about 72 leaves or portions of leaves ; among the places visited were Toronto, Kingston, Montreal, Quebec, Tadousac, Chicoutimi, etc. : Canada " A grand sane temperate land, the amplest & most beautiful . . . a river & necklace of vast lakes, pure, sweet, eligible, supplied by the chemistry of millions of square miles of gushing springs & melted snows. No stream this for side frontiers--stream rather for the great central current, the glorious mid-artery, of the great Free Pluribus Unum of America-- the solid Nationality of the present and the future, the home of an improved grand race of men & women, not of some select class only, but of larger, saner, better masses. I should say this vast area was fitted to be their unsurpassed habitat, I know nothing finer-- the European democratic tourist, philanthropist, geographer or genuine inquirer will make a fatal mistake who leaves these shores without understanding this--I know nothing finer, either from the point of view of the sociologist, the traveller or the artist, than a month's devotion to even the surface of Canada, over the line of the Great Lakes & the St. Lawrence." [*Monday 21 13th May, 1935*] 72B WHITMAN (WALT) Autograph Notes on birds and flowers, 14 pieces : "Canada July 18 '80. Swallow-Gambols. I spent a long time today watching the swallows--an hour this forenoon, and another hour, afternoon. There is a pleasant secluded close-cropt grassy lawn of a couple of acres or over, flat as a floor, & surrounded by a flowery and bushy hedge, just off the road adjoining the house--a favorite spot of mine. Over this open grassy area, immense numbers of swallows have been sailing, darting, circling and cutting large or small 8s and S's close to the ground, for hours to-day. It is evidently for fun altogether. I never saw anything prettier--this free swallow-dance. They kept it up, too, the greater part of the day." 73 WHITMAN (WALT) AUTOGRAPH NOTE ON " LEAVES OF GRASS " , on 2 pieces of paper : ' Leaves of Grass ' finished. " Boston, Oct 22 '81. 8.30 a.m.--. . . Have been in Boston the last two months seeing the " materialization " of completed " Leaves of Grass "--first deciding on the kind of type, size of page, head-lines, consecutive arrangement of pieces etc. . . . I quite enjoyed the work and have felt the last few days as though I should like to shoulder a similar job once or twice every year . . . And so I have put those completed poems in permanent type form at last. And of the present prose volume--Are not all its items--(" ducks and drakes " as the boys term the little pebble flats they send at random to skip over the surface of the water, and sink in its depths)--is not the preceding collection mainly an attempt at specimen samples of the bases and arrieres of those same poems ? often unwitting to myself at the time." 73A WHITMAN (WALT) A collection of Autograph Notes on various subjects, his life in Camden (written in 1884), a trip on the Mississippi and Missouri, notes for a projected poem in which each verse shall suggest a call, etc., 12 pieces : " Camden, Phila. April 8 '84. I have been living here in Camden now for nearly eleven years. Came on from Washington in the summer of '73, after my paralytic-stroke, and the death of my dear mother. Continued for three years in quite a bad way, not strength enough to walk any distance--stomach and head miserable. In '76 began to get better--went boarding down in the country and lay in the open air, as described in the preceding volume. From the fall of '76 to the present (April '84) I have been well enough to go around most of the time with occasional spells of sickness--one of which (over two months) I am just now recovering from." The above note is endorsed on the back : " [Apparently for a projected new 2 vol. ed. of his works.--W.S.K.] " 74 WHITMAN (Walt) A. L. s. to Dr. Bucke, 1 p. 8vo, 23 Jan., 1892, written in blue pencil on yellow paper : "Am deadly weak yet--otherwise inclined to favorable . . . the plaster cast come safe to Dr. J. Bolton--Ralph Moore is dead--Tom Harned well-- my doctors & attendants cont[inue ?] first rate--Horace ever faithful-- am propp'd up in bed." Horace must be Horace Traubel, who (with Tom Harned, also mentioned in this letter and Dr. Bucke) was one of Whitman's literary executors 75 WHITMAN (Walt) A. L. s. to Dr. Bucke, 1 p. 8vo, 27 Jan. [1892], written on yellow paper : "Feeble & weak & restless but not without favorable points--appetite holds out--eat two meals every day . . . McK. [David McKay, his publisher] was here--paid me $283 . . . to me the 1892 edn. [of Leaves of Grass] supersedes them all by far " . . . .[*Monday 22 13th May, 1935*] 76 WHITMAN (Walt) A. L. s. to Dr. Bucke, 1 p. 8vo, 8 Feb., 1892, written in blue pencil : " I keep on much the same--probably growing weaker . . . bad steady pain in left side " Written in the month before his death on the blank last page of an A. L. s. from Hallam Tennyson thanking him on behalf of his father for a copy of " Leaves of Grass " 77 WHITMAN (Walt) A. L. [to Tom Nicholson ?], dated 4 Oct. [no year], 2 pp. 8vo, mentions " Leaves of Grass " : " Did you see John Swinton's warm ¶ about my illustrious self in N. Y. Times, 1st inst. ? John seems lately possest with L. of G. as with a demon. I have found two or three others--a Mr. Norton of Boston is one. He is an educated man, a Boston metaphysical thinker.--Give my best love to John Burroughs, & lend him this note to read. J.B., dear friend, I wish I could have you here if only just to take a ride with me for once up & down Broadway, on top of a stage." The letter is without signature and appears to be incomplete. 78 WHITMAN (WALT) A LARGE COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPH NOTES, MEMORANDA AND PRELIMINARY STUDIES FOR Leaves of Grass, etc., written in pen and pencil on scraps of paper. The notes are very miscellaneous in character, suggestions for poems, notes for future study, etc. A poem in which is minutely described the whole particulars and ensemble of a first-rate healthy Human Body--if looked into and through, as if it were transparent and of pure glass--and now reported in a poem-- Read the latest and best anatomical works talk with physicians study the anatomical plates also casts & figures in the collections of design. Poem illustrative of the Woman under the " new dispensation." Collect all illustrative characters from history--the best mothers, healthiest women, most loving women. a woman is to be able to ride, swim, run, resist, advance, refuse, shoot, defend herself, sail a boat, hunt, rebel, just as much as a man. If the woman have not the quoted attributes in herself, the man cannot have them afterward The woman is to be athletic also. POEM OF EXISTENCE. We call one the past, and we call another the future But both are alike the present It is not the past, though we call it so, nor the future, though we call it so All the while it is the present only-- future and past are the present only. In future " Leaves of Grass " Be more severe with the final revision of the poem. Nothing will do, not one word or sentence, that is not perfectly clear-- with positive purpose--harmony with the name, nature, drift of the poem. Also no ornaments especially no ornamental adjectives, unless they have come molten hot, and imperiously prove themselves. No ornamental similes at all--not one Perfect transparent clearness, sanity and health are wanted--that is the divine style--O if it can be attained. [*Monday 23 13th May, 1935*] Lot 78--continued. I am not content now with a mere majority . . . I must have the love of all men and all women. If there be one left in any country who has no faith in me, I will travel to that country and go to that one. I subject all the teachings of the schools, and all dicta and authority, to the tests of myself. And I encourage you to subject the same to the tests of yourself--and to subject me and my words to the strongest tests. Scantlings. White, shaved, foreign, soft-fleshed shrinking Scant of muscle, scant of love power, Scant of gnarl and knot, modest, sleek in costumes, Averse from the wet of rain, from the fall of snow, from the grit of the stones and soil, A pretty race, each one just like hundreds of the rest Race of scantlings, from the strong growth of America. With the lot are a few MS. notes by Dr. Bucke and a few other anonymous MS. memoranda The whole collection numbers upwards of 200 sheets and scraps. 79 WHITMAN (WALT) HIS SCRAP BOOK. A thick 4to volume of cuttings from newspapers, extracts from books or magazines with many markings or notes by Walt Whitman. Also numerous MS. notes or memoranda written on sheets or scraps of paper and inserted. Many of these are short, consisting of two or three lines only, others are longer, sometimes covering several sheets ; one of his longer notes gives hiss view of England : THE ENGLISH MASSES (Talk with Frank Leonard, " Yank ", etc--their travels through English towns with the American Circus). The large mass (nine tenths) of the English people, the peasantry, laborers, factory-operatives, miners, workers in the docks, on shipping, the poor, the old, the criminals, the numberless flunkies of one sort and another have some of the bull-dog attributes but are generally minus the best attributes of humanity. They are not a race of fine physique, or any spirituality or manly audacity, have not clarified faces, candor, freedom, agility, and quick wit.--They are short, have mean physiognomies (such as are in the caricatures in " Punch ")--fine-shaped men and women, city-bred, being very seldom met with in the city, and becoming less and less common in the country.--Bad blood, goitre, consumption, and the diseases that branch out from venerealism, gin-drinking, excessive toil, and poor diet, are to-day apparent, to greater or less degree, in two-thirds of the common people of Great England. They are wretchedly poor, own neither houses nor lands for them-selves--have no homes--cannot look to have any homes--and are acquiring something fierce, morose, threatening in their physiognomy.--In their phrenology there is the most substantial basis of any race known--all that can make a solid nation and has made it. Among the common classes in towns chastity is dwindling out. All drink, few are virtuous. In regard to intelligence, education, knowledge the masses of the people in comparison with the masses of the U.S. are at least two hundred years behind us.--With all these terrible things about the common people, what grand things must be said about England ! Power, wealth, materials, energy, individualism, are hers--and there is today but one nation greater than she is, and that is her own daughter." The above is written on 3 sheets of official paper, dated 185-- Most of the printed and manuscript material here collected is of a " general knowledge " character, information on historical or geographical points, etc. Bound in half calf[*Monday 24 13th May, 1935*] 80 WHITMAN (WALT) AUTOGRAPH NOTES, MAINLY IN PENCIL, ON HOMER, VIRGIL, DANTE, CHAUCER, SPENSER, SHAKESPEARE, SWEDENBORG, ROUSSEAU, SHELLEY and others, written on about 40 ll. or scraps of paper. Also a collection of printed articles extracted from magazines, etc., mainly on authors or literary subjects and with numerous marginal notes and markings by Whitman 80A Whitman (Walt) Autograph Note on his parents : " All through young and middle age, I thought my heredity-stamp was mainly decidedly from my mother's side : but as I grow older, and latent traits come out, I see my dear father's also. As to loving and disinterested parents, no boy or man ever had more cause to bless and thank them than I." 80B WHITMAN (WALT) THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION AND SLAVERY, LONG HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT WRITTEN IN PENCIL, 22 sheets of varying sizes 80C WHITMAN (WALT) THE SOCIAL CONTRACT, OR , PRINCIPLES OF RIGHT, HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, 11 ll. 4to n.d. 80D Whitman (Walt) Italian Singers in America, Autograph Note on 4 ll. : " The best songstress ever in America was Alboni.--Her voice is a contralto of large compass, high and low--and probably sweeter tones never issued from human lips. The mere sound of that voice was pleasure enough . . . we used to go in the upper tiers of the theatre (the Broadway) on the nights of her performance, and remember seeing that part of the auditorium packed full of New York young men, mechanics, " roughs " , etc., entirely oblivious of all except Alboni, from the time the great songstress came on the stage . . . " 80E WHITMAN (WALT) Article on the " Wants " column in the daily newspaper, autograph manuscript, 14 ll. written chiefly in green ink : " . . . Happily, as to the latter class, in this country, work is not yet so hard to get, or employers at present so lordly, as to make it necessary for the carpenter or mason to run around and look to intermediate agencies for a situation. And among the commercial part of the community, there is a prejudice against filling even a subordinate clerkship through the means of the " want " column or Intelligence Office . . . " 80F Whitman (Walt) Autograph Draft of a Letter to a newspaper on the exchange of prisoners : " Sir : whether it agrees with your own opinion or not I hope you will open your columns to this communication of mine seeking to stir up the government to a general exchange of prisoners . . . " On the back are some autograph pencil notes on prison and hospital life On another sheet is an autograph note on the exchange question : " It is generally belived in Washington that the President is in favor of a general exchange, but has been for the past year overruled by the head of the war department & others. The consequences are well known to all who mix much with the people & the soldiers. The administration has already established a name for bad faith which will tell for years to come . . . " [*Monday 25 13th May, 1935*] 80G Whitman (Walt) Autograph Note (imperfect) on the appointment by Abraham Lincoln of a successor of Caleb Smith as Secretary of the Interior, 2 ll. 4to ; and Autograph Note in pencil on municipal legislation, 1 p. 4to ; other Autograph Notes, Drafts and other Documents ; also a collection of magazine articles made by Walt Whitman with marginal markings, etc. (a small parcel) 80H WHITMAN (WALT) Autograph Drafts of Letters and Notes on the postal laws relating to book manuscripts, 6 sheets 4to 80I Whitman (Walt) Autograph Note on the genesis of Leaves of Grass, 1 p. 4to : " The fifteen years from 1840 to 1855 may be considered as the gestation-years or period of formation out of which Leaves of Grass rose. Not in the usual way of an author withdrawing, composing his work in a study, abstractedly addressing himself to the literary formulation, consulting authorities, and the like, but in the way of first merging oneself in all the living flood and practicality and fervency of that period . . . the scenes, sights & people of the great cities of New York and Brooklyn, with Broadway, the Bowery, South and West Streets, the shipping and ship-yards, & the incomparable water & bay life around New-York-- Several extensive jaunts, too, through the States, one of them extending over a year, including all the western and Southern regions, New Orleans, Texas, the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, and some weeks over the Great Lakes and Niagara." 81 WHITMAN (WALT) TWO PERSONAL AUTOGRAPH NOTES, possibly intended for use by Dr. Bucke in his biography, for which book Whitman himself seems to have supplied much material : " Of this maternal side, with its stock from the Netherlands--Dutch, it is not too much to say that both Walt Whitman's personality and his writings are largely to be assigned to that race-origin. A faithful and subtle investigation would here track home and far back many of the elements of " Leaves of Grass " . . . . the emotional, the liberty-loving, the social, the preponderating qualities of adhesiveness, immovable gravitation, simplicity, with a certain conservative protestantism, & other traits, are unmistakably from his motherhood and are pure Hollandic or Dutch." In the second note he details the conditions under which Leaves of Grass was composed 82 WHITMAN (WALT) AUTOGRAPH NOTES AND FRAGMENTS on various literary topics, the Nibelungenlied, Ossian, Shakespeare, Richard Burgbage, etc. (16 pieces) : " America has been called proud and arrogant. It may be, but she does not show it in her literature. It is indirect and therefore more effective. Day by day and hour by hour, in tragedy and comedy, in picture and print, in every importation of art and letters, she submits to one steady blow of discrepancy . . . . " 83 WHITMAN (WALT) AUTOGRAPH NOTES AND FRAGMENTS ON HIS LECTURES, etc. (9 pieces) : " List of things recognised by my lectures." " I recognise in America the land of materials--the land of iron, wheat, beef, pork, fish and fruit. I recognise all the great inventions, machines, and improvements of to-day, the ten-cylinder press, printing thirty-thousand sheets an hour-- the electric telegraph that binds continents and threads the bottom of seas--the track of railroads--the cheap newspaper." "--the idea that the common American mechanic, farmer, sailor, etc is just as eligible as any to the highest ideal of dignity, perfection and knowledge (I sometimes think an independent American working man is more eligible than any other) "Monday 26 13th May, 1935 84 WHITMAN (WALT) AUTOGRAPH NOTES AND FRAGMENTS ON RELIGION (10 pieces): " . . . the divine ideas of spirituality, of the immortal soul of the woman and the man, of another sphere of existence, of conscience and perfect justice and goodness, have been serenely preserved through millenia of years and with many traditions are here transmitted to us, to me, to you, whoever you are. I receive the great inheritance with welcome joy. I know life is in my own soul, not in the traditions, the phantoms-- I know the traditions help me well--but how could I be developed even so far and talk with decision today without all those traditions ?--I know, too, that I am the master and overseer of all religions--as you shall be--not their slave." 85 Whitman (Walt) Apparently a translation in the handwriting of Walt Whitman of a letter from Victor Hugo: To Arthur Monnanteuil Hauteville House 7th July, 1868. I accept your verses Mr. -------- You have drawn them from the true source of noble inspirations. Let us love forever, and propogate forever, la Liberté. Without wings, no bird. Without Liberty, no poet. Accept the assurance of all my sympathy, Victor Hugo. On the fourth page Walt Whitman has written: If there be but one left, I shall be that one. 86 Whitman (Walt) Family Memoranda. MANUSCRIPT NOTES, CHIEFLY AUTOGRAPH, on family history and genealogy written on about 20 sheets, folio, 4to and 8vo, loose in 2 half calf covers 87 WHITMAN (WALT) ABOUT 40 LL. OR FRAGMENTS OF AUTOGRAPH MATTER in envelope endorsed: "Walt Whitman MSS. printed in Dr. R. M. Bucke's 'Notes and Fragments' of Walt Whitman (pp.59-67) & sent to me by his son Edw. P. Bucke Nov. 24 1902.--W. S. Kennedy." 88 Whitman (Walt) Four MS. Notes by W. Whitman written on scraps of paper with some cuttings of printed articles by or relating to him. In an envelope endorsed: " Scraps of Walt Whitman's Manuscript etc received from Dr. R. M. Bucke's son by W. S. Kennedy November 24, 1902." 89 WHITMAN (WALT) NEW YORK 51ST REGIMENT. A COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPH MS. NOTES AND MEMORANDA MADE BY WALT WHITMAN ON THIS REGIMENT DURING THE SECESSION WAR, including some long notes about his brother George, who was taken prisoner in 1864. Autograph notes on Brooklyn men in other regiments who took part in the war. Also some printed and manuscript matter (not autograph) on the history of the regiment. ------------------------------------------------ Monday 27 13th May, 1935 IV. AUTOGRAPH LETTERS TO WALT WHITMAN AND MANUSCRIPTS RELATING TO HIM 90 BUCKE (R. M.) HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF THE ORIGINAL DRAFT OF HIS BOOK ON WALT WHITMAN. Some of the quoted passages are omitted or supplied in transcript or from a printed version. A transcript of The Good Gray Poet is included, but the articles, criticisms, etc. which had appeared previously and reprinted by Dr. Bucke in his book, are omitted; A TRANSCRIPT OF THE SAME BY ANOTHER HAND, REVISED BY WALT WHITMAN WITH NUMEROUS ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS BY HIM INCLUDING SOME ADDED HOLOGRAPH PASSAGES BY WHITMAN OF CONSIDERABLE LENGTH; The holograph MS. of the article written in the form of a letter to Dr. Bucke by William Douglas O'Connor (author of "The Good Gray Poet. A Vindication") and printed in Dr. Bucke's "Life of Whitman" , pp. 73-98, at the beginning of the Appendix to Part I as a preface to "The Good Gray Poet" which is reprinted immediately after it; A Dialogue by Walter Whitman. A Transcript of an article published in the Democratic Review for Nov., 1845 91 Bucke (R. M.) A Collection of papers and documents relating to Walt Whitman made by Dr. Bucke including the holograph MS. of his lecture on Walt Whitman; Copies of some letters from Walt Whitman from 1860; Phrenological Description of W. Whitman (Age 29. Occupation Printer) by L. V. Fowler, N. York, July 16, 1849, manuscript, 6 ll., 4to; Several typed articles on Walt Whitman with corrections by Dr. Bucke; Walt Whitman's Genealogy, MS. in pencil by Dr. Bucke, 14 ll. ; "Old Age's Lambent Peaks", a poem by Walt Whitman, and 2 other poems by him printed on a galley slip (2 copies) and other papers (a parcel) 92 Bucke (R. M.) Study of Faust and "Leaves of Grass", a comparison, MANUSCRIPT, written by Dr. R. M. Bucke, 21 pp. 93 Bucke (R. M.) Walt Whitman. Man and Poet, MANUSCRIPT, written by Dr. R. M. Bucke, 15 ll. 94 Bucke (R. M.) A Lecture on Walt Whitman delivered at St. Thomas' about 1895, partly type-written and partly printed, 30 ll., with MS. corrections by the author 95 Bucke (R. M.) Walt Whitman. A Lecture delivered at Sarina, 9 March, 1900, partly type-written and partly printed, 65 ll., with MS. corrections by the author; Notes for a lecture on Walt Whitman by Dr. Bucke on loose sheets, 8vo and 4to; three pamphlets on Walt Whitman, etc. 96 DOYLE (PETER) A Collection of 8 A. L. s. from Peter Doyle to Walt Whitman, all written from Washington, Sept.-Oct. 1868 (or without year), about 18 pp. 8vo; Also A. L. s. from Henry HurtMonday 28 13th May, 1935 97 Farwell (Reuben) A series of 11 Letters written to Walt Whitman by Reuben Farwell, 1863-75, a soldier in the Secession War, four of them with endorsements by Walt Whitman. A letter to him from Fred H. M. Ready, and a typed copy of a fragmentary letter from Walt Whitman to Reuben Farwell 98 Heyde (Charles L.) A Collection of upwards of 60 Letters from Charles L. Heyde, husband of Hannah Whitman to his brother-in-law Walt Whitman, and a few to his mother-in-law written 1852-92 99 Heyde (Hannah, née Whitman) A Collection of 21 Letters from Hannah Whitman (Mrs. Charles Heyde) to her brother Walt, and 34 others from her to her mother 1853-92 100 Letters. A Collection of 30 Letters written to Walt Whitman in the late sixties (and after) mainly about Leaves of Grass, his work done in hospitals, etc. A few are from old friends, e.g. Geo. D. Cole ("Walt you know wat good times Petter (?Peter Doyle) and your selfe and me had together . . . how is old car no 29 my old car"). Several contain enthusiastic praise of Leaves of Grass, some are from unknown or anonymous correspondents. Among the collection is a letter written in pencil by Walt Whitman (1 p. 4to) to Miss Elmira Crossman on behalf of her brother, Captain H. F. Crossman, who was ill in hospital at the time. Also an Account in the autograph of Walt Whitman dated 13 August, 1867, for copies of Leaves of Grass supplied to French and Richardson 101 Letters. A collection of A. Ls. s. sent to Walt Whitman from friends and admirers during his summer in Canada in 1880. Among them are letters from Edward Carpenter (2), Mrs. Ann Gilchrist, Robert G. Ingersoll, John Burroughs, W. Hale White, Dr. R. M. Bucke, T. W. H. Rolleston, Harry Scovel, Frederick Locker (2), his sister Louisa (2), and others; also a number of cuttings and printed articles, etc. 102 Letters. A collection of 80 Letters from H. Buxton Forman, T. B. Harned, P. K. Foley and Putnam's sons to Dr. R. M. Bucke, many relating to Walt Whitman (80) 103 Letters. A collection of upwards of 40 Letters to Walt Whitman, his mother, and a few others, written between the years 1848-91. Those addressed to Walt Whitman include letters from his cousins Margaret L. Avery and Sarah Avery, 4 letters from his sister Louisa, his niece Hattie, and 3 from Jessie Whitman (" Dear Uncle Walt ") 104 O'Connor (W. D.) A long Autograph Article addressed to the Editor of the Tribune (45 ll. 4to) on the suppression of "Leaves of Grass"; another on the same, entitled "Tobey or not Tobey ?" (49 ll. 4to); another entitled "Mr. Comstock as Cato the Censor" (17 ll. 4to); Manuscript copies of Walt Whitman's letters, 105 ll. folio; and other manuscript and printed papers relating to Walt Whitman, cuttings from newspapers, etc. (a parcel) Monday 29 13th May, 1935 105 O'Connor (Mrs. W. D., afterwards Mrs. Ellen M. Calder) A series of 34 Letters written in the years 1881-97 to Dr. R. M. Bucke, with references to her Walt Whitman papers and her friendship with him In a letter, dated 31 Oct., 1881, she writes: " . . . I thought I should have time to write up reminiscences of Walt for you . . . I will, however, put into shape for you, the one thought that always from the day I first read a line of Walt Whitman, pressed upon me, the certainty that none but a good and pure man would dare to write and publish what he did." In another, of 29 Dec., 1891, she writes: "Can you steal a minute to tell me how you feel & think about Walt? Can he possibly weather this storm or is it the end? . . . If Walt can at all understand will you give him my love? I know he has thought of me; for on . . . the morning after Christmas he came to me. I never have seen him more plainly that I did then." Mrs. Ellen M. O'Connor and her first husband W. D. O'Connor were both great friends of Whitman. See Emory Holloway's Whitman, p. 233, etc. W. D. O'Connor was the author of the vindication of Whitman published in 1866 under the title "The Good Gray Poet." 106 Price (Helen E.) A series of 7 Letters written 1872-3 by Miss Helen E. Price to Walt Whitman's mother. In a letter, dated New Year, 1873, she refers to some misunderstanding between Walt Whitman and herself: ". . . Tell me about Walt too. I hope he is not angry with me any more. It almost broke my heart to think I had vexed him so much last summer, and to be thought forward and presuming by any of my friends grieved me so deeply, but Walt was always dear to me as you know, and always will be, no matter what his opinion may be of me . . ." On Friday, 31 Jan., 1873, she writes : ". . . I have just seen an account of Walt's illness in the papers and am so anxious to know the latest news . . . I know you will think it foolish of me but I feel as though I could hardly keep from starting right off to take care of him and I know I should if I was married and rich, but I do not suppose it would do for a young lady . . . Walt makes so many friends everywhere he goes that he is sure to be well taken care of. I do not feel any heart to write about any thing else . . ." With this correspondence is also a letter from Mrs. Abby Price (mother of Helen Price) to Walt Whitman's mother 107 PRICE (HELEN E.) A series of 13 Letters written during the years 1881-97 to Dr. R. M. Bucke by Miss Helen E. Price, one of his most intimate New York friends, mainly relating to biographical material supplied by her to Dr. Bucke for his book on Walt Whitman published in 1883. The long notes she supplied (not preserved with these letters) were printed in that volume (pp. 26-32) with the following prefatory note: The memoranda which follow were written for this volume in 1881 by a lady--Miss Helen E. Price, of Woodside, Long Island--whose acquaintance with Walt Whitman, and his frequent temporary residence in her parents' family, make her peculiarly competent to present a picture of the man in those periods of middle life (ib., p. 26) In a letter, dated 27 Sept., 1893, Miss Helen Price writes : . . . The forthcoming "Century" will have an article as I see announced . . . . of Walt's letters to his mother . . . I was more than glad that the world should know as it has not yet done how altogether lovely and beautiful his character shows in all his relations to his family as a son and brother."Monday 30 13th May, 1935 Lot 107-continued. In another letter, dated 29 Sept., 1895, she writes: " I think he (Walt) must have seemed even to those who knew him but slightly as the very sanest of men. I could even imagine that his presence alone might have brought healing and balm to unbalanced minds and diseased nerves, and yet I have seen him under the influence of strong excitement . . . But even on these occasions he was always and fully master of himself and I could not imagine him otherwise." 108 Rhys (Ernest) Two long A. Ls. s. from Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman; another from H. Garland; four Letters from publishers to Dr. Bucke about Whitman's work, etc. (7) 109 Soldiers' Letters. A collection of about 60 Letters from soldiers to Walt Whitman, with autograph ticket inscribed "Soldiers Letters to me during the war." (Some since the war) 110 WHITMAN (GEORGE W.) A collection of 59 holograph Letters written by Walt Whitman's younger brother George, mostly to his mother, from the army during the years 1861-65 *** George Whitman (b. 1829) joined the army of the North in 1861 on the outbreak of the War of Secession. Wounded in Dec., 1862, and taken prisoner in 1864 he rose to the rank of Captain before the end of the war. Walt Whitman made his home for eleven years with George at Camden after his stroke in 1873. Many of the letters are long and give many details of the fighting. Six of them are addressed to Walt Whitman himself. In a letter, dated from the Camp of the 51st N.Y. Vols., Newport News, Va., 12 Feb. 1863, he writes : "Dear Walt Well here we are at Newport News, and glad enough to get out of the mud, in which the grand Army of the Potomac has lived . . . since we first joined it . . . Of course we know nothing at all about what they brought us here for . . . Anyhow I am glad to get out of the Potomac Army for it seems as if it would never be able to accomplish anything. And yet I believe it was as fine an Army (as far as their fighting qualities is concerned) as was ever seen " 111 WHITMAN (MRS. L.) An extensive collection of holograph Letters written to Walt Whitman by his mother, Mrs. L. Whitman (Louisa Van Velsor, 1795-1873), comprising 3 letters written to him in 1860 while he was away in Boston seeing to the publication of the 1860 edition of "Leaves of Grass"; and a series of about 135 letters written to him at Washington during the years of 1863-73, when he was engaged on hospital work during the Secession War and as a government clerk *** The collection includes a few letters written by or to other members of the family, one of them (a long letter from Mrs. Whitman to her daughter Hannah written in July, 1855) giving an account of the death of Walt Whitman's father. With this lot are sold 7 ll. of pencil memoranda of biographical details of the Whitman family, compiled by Dr. R. M. Bucke from Mrs. Whitman's letters or other sources. Monday 31 13th May, 1935 112 Whitman (Mrs. L.) Thirteen Letters to Walt Whitman from his mother, all without date, about 30 pp. 4to and 8vo 113 Whitman (Mattie) A series of 18 Letters to her mother and 5 to her brother, Walt Whitman, written 1863-72, somewhat soiled and water-stained 114 Whitman (Thomas Jefferson) An extensive Collection of about 80 Autograph Letters from Jeff. Whitman to his brother Walt, written during the years 1860-88, most of them dated from the Engineer's Office, Brooklyn Water Works or from St. Louis Water Works; also a few Letters from Jeff. Whitman to his mother 115 Whitman (Walt) Notes and Fragments by Walt Whitman edited by R. M. Bucke, second edition, MANUSCRIPT AND TYPESCRIPT, 34 ll., 20 ll. written by Dr. Bucke and 14 ll. typewritten, with corrections and additions by Dr. Bucke, unbound folio *** Included with this lot are the originals of the 4 letters written by Jefferson Whitman during his visit to New Orleans in 1848 with his brother Walt Whitman which were printed in the volume. (1) Jeff's letter to his mother (incomplete) 29 Feb., 1848, beginning "Our captain thought he would run the risk"; (2) Jeff's letter to his father, 14 March, 1848; (3) His letter to his mother, 27 March, 1848; (4) His letter to his parents, 23 April (1848). 116 Whitman (Walt) Sunday Restrictions. Memorial in behalf of a freer municipal government and against Sunday Restrictions, by Walt Whitman, copied from the "Brooklyn Star" of 20 Oct., 1854 by W. E. Davenport, MANUSCRIPT, 12 ll. 4to; The Love of Eris. A Spirit Record. By Walt Whitman, copied from the "Brooklyn Daily Eagle" of 18 Aug., 1846, by W. E. Davenport, MANUSCRIPT, 13 ll. 8vo; Recollections of Walt Whitman, by Mrs. E. M. Calder, TYPESCRIPT, 14 ll. 4to 117 Whitman (Walt) A large collection of MS. Notes on Walt Whitman's last illness made by Dr. R. M. 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(three lines)BAKER, LEIGH & SOTHEBY THE FIRM COMMENCING WITH SAMUEL BAKER IN 1744 SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE 1861-1924 SOTHEBY & CO. 1924-1935THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS TEN NOTEBOOKS AND A CARDBOARD BUTTERFLY MISSING from the Walt Whitman Papers WALT WHITMAN MANUSCRIPTS in the Library of Congress Washington 1954 [*3*]THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS --- TEN NOTEBOOKS AND A CARDBOARD BUTTERFLY M I S S I N G from the Walt Whitman Papers --- WALT WHITMAN MANUSCRIPTS in the Library of Congress Washington 1954TEN NOTEBOOKS AND A CARDBOARD BUTTERFLY MISSING FROM THE WALT WHITMAN PAPERS Thomas B. Harned of Philadelphia was one of the three literary executors of Walt Whitman among whom the poet's manuscripts were divided at his death in 1892. In 1917-1918, Mr. Harned presented his share of the papers, which included a group of 25 notebooks, to the Library of Congress, where they are designated as the Walt Whitman Papers. The notebooks collection was made available for general consultation in 1921, and from 1925 on was used extensively by students of American literature. In 1942, the Walt Whitman Papers, in sealed packing cases, were evacuated from Washington for war-time security, and were kept in a separate and continuously guarded area of a Mid-Western library until their return to the Library of Congress, with seals unbroken, in early October 1944. When the collection was unpacked it was discovered that 11 items - 10 notebooks and the cardboard butterfly - were missing. Searches were immediately instituted. It was at first supposed that the missing pieces had been misplaced, despite precautions, during the procedures of evacuation. These searches proved fruitless. It therefore soon became necessary to face the possibility that the missing items had been deliberately removed at some time prior to the evacuation of 1942. Studies were made to collect every scrap of evidence regarding the use and users of the Papers from 1925 on and the assistance of the investigative agencies of the Federal Government was enlisted. For the want of a periodic piece-by-piece inventory of the very miscellaneous contents of the Papers, it is not possible to state the latest date at which they were intact. There is, however, evidence from records of use of individual pieces that the group of notebooks was intact as late as April 1941. The purpose of the present circular (prepared on the advice of the Federal Bureau of Investigation) is, in Part I, to identify and describe the missing pieces. Because the Library had made for itself no copies of these pieces, the descriptions are based upon extracts and other data contained in published books, and particularly in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, edited by Emory Holloway (New York, Doubleday, Doran, 1921), vol. 2, p. 62-97, and upon photostats made from the originals before their disappearance for two Whitman scholars, Prof. William L. Finkel and Prof. Ernest E. Leisy, and now [*- 3 -*]by them made again available for the Library's use. It is thus possible to reproduce here portions of all the missing items. It is urgently requested that any person who has any knowledge or well-founded supposition of the whereabouts of the missing items, at present or at any time since they were separated from the Whitman Papers, will not fail to communicate such information to the Chief of the Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress, Washington 25, D. C. All information received will be treated as confidential and will be acted upon with caution and tact. The only object in soliciting this cooperation is to restore the integrity of this important collection. In Part II, the manuscripts in the Library of Congress relating to Walt Whitman are described. Verner W. Clapp Acting Librarian of Congress Washington 25, D. C. April 1954 [*-4-*] CONTENTS Part I. ITEMS MISSING FROM THE WALT WHITMAN PAPERS (Because the missing items do not bear descriptive titles by which they may be cited, they are identified below and in the following pages by supplied catch-word titles within quotation marks.) Pages 1. "Earliest" Notebook (Holloway No. 1) . . . . . . 6-7 2. "Perceptions or Senses" Notebook (Holloway No. 3) . . . . 8-9 3. "Fugitive Slave Law" Notebook (Holloway No. 4) . 10-11 4. "Tintype" Notebook (Holloway No. 5) . . . . . . . 12-13 5. "1862" Notebook (Holloway No. 8) . . . . . . . . 14-15 6. "American Opera" Notebook belonging to the period before 1855. . . 16-17 7. "Hospital" Notebook -- "Platner and Porter, Congress" . . . . 18-19 8. "Hospital" Notebook No. 3, 1865. . . . . . . . . 20-21 9. "Oratory" Note and Scrapbook . . . . . . . . . . 22-25 10. The "Reading Book" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26-29 11. The Butterfly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30-31 Part II. WALT WHITMAN MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS A. Collections composed predominantly of Whitman manuscripts and related material . . . . . . . . 33-35 B. Other collections containing fugitive Whitman material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35-37 C. Collections consisting of or containing Whitmaniana. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37-38 [*-5-*]Part I. ITEMS MISSING FROM THE WALT WHITMAN PAPERS 1. "Earliest" Notebook (Holloway No. 1) Holloway (op. cit., vol. 2, p. 63-76) says that "this little notebook, 3 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches in size, locks with a pencil thrust through three improvised leather loops." The Library of Congress has photostats of 21 pages, which vary in height from 5 1/4 to 5 1/8 inches, and in width from 3 1/4 to 3 1/8 inches. Holloway's measurement is evidently that of the covers. The notebook was labelled, probably by Harned, "Earliest and Most Important Note Book of Walt Whitman." The Library once informed a correspondent that photostating the notebook would require 49 exposures, which indicates that there are from 96 to 98 pages containing manuscript. Holloway states that "seven pages, apparently containing accounts, have been cut from the front of the book," and that "in the middle of the notebook several pages have been left blank," the first verse appearing only after the blank section. He reproduces the first two pages of verse (beginning "I am the poet of slaves, and of the masters of slaves") in the lower half of the plate opposite page 70. The pages are ruled for accounts; in the photostats there is a vertical line about 5/8 of an inch from the left margin, a double line about 3/4 of an inch from the right margin, and a single line about 3/8 of an inch from the right margin. The date April 19, 1847, evidently left over from the original use of the notebook for accounts, occurs at one point; this pair of facing pages is reproduced, from a photostat, on the opposite page. Holloway states that three addresses for Whitman are given, presumably at the beginning of the book: 71 Prince Street and 30 Fulton Street, both cancelled, and 106 Myrtle Avenue substituted. Most of the Notebook's contents, evidently, are printed by Holloway. [*-6-*] The effusion or corporation soul is always under the beautiful laws of physiology — I guess the soul itself can never be any thing but great and pure and immortal; but it makes itself visible only through matter — a perfect head, and [but] bowels and bones to match [will] is the easy gate through which it comes from its [wonderful] embowered garden, and pleasantly appears to the sight [*1 2 3*] [*LIBRARY OF CONGRESS*] 1847 April 19th mason commenced work on the basement rooms paid mason in full. I know the bread is [mine,] [I have not a ? di????] my bread, and that on it must I dine and sup. [for the] [dime that bought it] [was my last] — I know [the] I may mind, [and ?] and not grit my teeth against the laws of church or state. What is this then that balances itself upon my life and wrestles love? as with the knuckles of God, for Notebook, Holloway No. 12. "Perceptions or Senses" Notebook (Holloway No. 3) Concerning this, Holloway (op. cit., vol. 2, p. 83-86) tells us only that it very much resembles his No. 2, which he has described as "a little paper notebook of twenty-four 3 1/2 - by - 6 pages, in a brown cover," with the writing all done in pencil. The Library of Congress has photostats of six pages, one of them blank; each page measures 5 3/4 by 3 5/8 inches. Each page has three vertical rulings: a single line about 3/4 of an inch from the left margin, a double line about 7/8 of an inch from the right margin, and a single line about 3/8 of an inch from the right margin. There are also lighter horizontal guide-lines about 5/16 of an inch apart. Holloway says that the writing is in some places so badly blurred as to be scarcely legible. His first extract begins: "You know how the one brain includes those beautiful wonders the perceptions or senses. . ." Two facing pages, exhibiting corrections and cancellations, are reproduced from photostats opposite. [*-8-*] [I want that tenor [?} of whose] [mouth shall the slight [?] [slicer?] [I want that terse, large and fresh] [as the creation [?] of whose] [month shall left over my head [?]] [of after the delight want the soprano [?]] [that lithely overlaps the star, and] [[?] me like the love g[?]] [of her in when arrow[?]. I love that] [night & I want in[?] infinite] [chorus and orchestration, wide] [as the orbit of Uranus[?] ?] [reliable at immortality [following]] [true as the hours of the day,] [[and night], as the hoursof the day,] [to receive, as thoroughly as the] [sea fills its scooped out sandbar] [I want the chanted Hymn] [whose tremendous sentiment] [*?] [*1 2 3*] [*LIBRARY OF CONGRESS*] [uncage [?] in my heart or thousand new] [thoughts[?], and unknown [?] and [?] [?]] [shall [put me through] [?]] [[The paces and powers] - making] [me enter intrinsically into] [all passions - dilating me] [beyond time and space - ] [?] [?] [?] [?] [?] [of hail and lightning [?] - ] [fears?] [lulling[?] me, drowsily with &,] [honeyed [?] [?] - [?]] [[waking in my heart a thousand]] [[?] [strengths and ardors]] [[and extasies] - writhing around] [the [f?] soils[?] of collapsing death,] [and awakening me again to] [know, by that comparison, the] [only positive wonder in the world,] [and that is what we call life.] Notebook, Holloway No. 33. "Fugitive Slave Law" Notebook (Holloway No. 4) This Holloway describes (op. cit., vol. 2, p. 86-90) as "a substantial, leather-backed notebook containing references to the Fugitive Slave Law." He prints some of Whitman's autobiographical memoranda from 1826-1848; following an entry for February 11, 1848, "several pages have been cut from the book, but their stubs indicate that they apparently did not continue the form of diary given above." The Library of Congress has photostats of 16 pages, which are 5 7/8 inches in height and 3 5/8 to 3 3/4 inches in width. Faint horizontal lines about 3/16 of an inch apart can be detected. Photostats of a 17th and of part of an 18th page are on a reduced scale. The photostats also show that there are a number of pages written in ink, "Subjects for articles," and extensive notes on English history and literature, probably earlier in date than the pencil entries. Two facing pages are reproduced opposite from photostats. The autobiographical data occur in the lower portions. [*-10-*] What can be a more admirable aim for the most exalted human ambition, than the wish and resolve to be perfect? --Though the carrying out of this resolve requires some mental purification, the most of it I think is of a physical nature How many faults have I! How many weaknesses! Ah, if the flesh could but act whatever my rational mind, in its moments of clear inspiration aspires too, how much better I should be! -- Faint not, heart! --Advance stoutly and perseveringly! I went to edit the Aurora in April 1842. In Jamaica, first time in the latter part of the summer of 1839. In the winter [?] [?], I taught school [at] between Jamaica and Flushing[?] also in February and spring of '40 at Times Square -- In summer of 40 I taught at Woodbury Was at Jamaica and through [?] in [?] - fall of 1866 [*1 2 3*] [*LIBRARY OF CONGRESS*] By the article of Sidney Smith (1826) it appears that at that time, certain high orders of criminals had not the privilege of being heard(?) by their counsel in their trials - [?] "I have myself, "says [?] Scarlett, the English Barrister "often seen persons I thought innocent convicted, and the guilty escapes." Sidney Smith's essays "Folly, sanctioned by antipathy" Sidney Smith Winter of 1840, went to white stone, and was there till most spring. -- Went to New York in May 1841 and wrote for "Democratic Review." Worked at family business in New World" office boarded at Mrs. Shipman [?] [?] in April 18[?] [?] [?] Wrote for "[?] [?] J. W. died at Sine(?) Hills Sept 8th 1845 Notebook, Holloway No. 44. "Tintype" Notebook (Holloway No. 5) Holloway (op. cit., vol. 2, p. 91) calls this an "old leather-bound notebook," and refers to a passage dated June 26, 1859. Opposite his page 70 Holloway reproduces two facing pages (under half of plate), on the right-hand of which is mounted a tintype of an unidentified young woman. The Library of Congress has photostats of six pages, one of them blank. Each is 6 3/4 by 4 inches in size, and ruled with horizontal lines about 5/16 of an inch apart. Two facing pages are reproduced opposite from photostats. The left-hand page contains an entry date June 26, 1859. [*-12-*] June 26 '59 —It is now time stir fast for Money enough to live and provide for —To Stir—first write stories and get out of this slough [*1 2 3*] [*LIBRARY OF CONGRESS*] The Bell Something to make a whole Poem of the great bell Many bells the Pilot's bell The fog bell The ships bell [????] at sea the purified bell [?] the cathedral bell (Europe) The cemetery bell (as at [???]) ? The [?] bells the [?] bells Notebook, Holloway No. 55. "1862" Notebook (Holloway No. 8) Holloway (op. cit., vol. 2, p. 93) tells us almost nothing concerning this important notebook, but we have abundant information from other sources, including a typed copy of the flyleaf and first 59 pages made in the Library of Congress and presently kept with the Whitman papers. The original is bound in leather covers stamped "Walt Whitman 1862." The Library has photostats of 26 pages, two of them blank; the pages nearly all measure 6 3/4 by 4 1/8 inches. They are horizontally ruled, but so faintly that the lines barely appear in the photostats. Two facing pages are reproduced opposite page 244 of Esther Shephard's Walt Whitman's Pose (New York, Harcourt Brace, 1938) and four single pages in Charles I. Glicksberg's Walt Whitman and the Civil War (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1933), opposite pages 80, 122, 125, and 126. The latter book also prints an extended extract from this notebook, under the supplied title, "Fifty-first New York City Veterans," on p. 63-83. The first 59 pages of the notebook, as appears from the typed transcript, consist largely of memoranda made in Washington hospitals; farther on in the volume occur drafts of a number of the poems later revised and published in Drum-Taps. Two single pages are reproduced opposite from photostats. [*-14-*] George, Marlen (April 29 - [?] No 8 large [?] on 4th av. Is from Ohio - has traveled with a show as "candy butcher" James [W?llis] ([?], talks sort of [sp??????] April 29 - [?]; No. 1 4th av- is a [c???] or truckman - first appearance as a [d???]) Phineas (on 23d [?] 27 is from New Jersey — brown faced. Willard Mead - (April drives [?] 4th [?] [?] and serious looking.) July [?] gave to [?] Victor Smith ([?] June 30 '62 Met a man who introduced himself to me as Victor Smith — in the government employ on the Pacific coast northern Oregon as collector %c there — he and wife thought very much of L of G — said it had made a disturbance between her & her sisters, %c said that Mr. Chase (Secretary of Treasury) one evening, seeing the book on the centre table said How is it possible you can have this nasty book here." [?] [*Met him in Washington*] [*is a light house agent Puget Sound*] June '62 Elijah Tompkins [?] 2d NY artillery deserter 1304 Broadway arrested - [?] [*1 2 3*] [*LIBRARY OF CONGRESS*] Charles (Jenkins) Nov '67 19 7th av from Boston has been in California, New Orleans, %c full [?], Yankee [pro?????tion] Peter Burdett Patrick 7th [?] always asks me about going up to 33d st Courtland Gridley forward 5th [?] [?] Dec 6 [?] 7th av. Lewis [?] (Peter brother) we went to the theatre [?] Dec 6, 62 John Koon, Myrtle av [?] Edward Evans, 21 23d st sharp features, black in '62 [?] & [?] Lewis Seaman, (Union Ferry) his daughter married Jno [?] James Boyd Union ferry (lives in [?]) [?] John Lewis [3?] years old fish market Fulton market August 26 '64 Cornelius [Kittlet??] (gave [?] of [?] for [?] born on Staten Island father died early was in [?] & [?] office - NY [?] went to Montgomery Ala kept an [?] was [?] Notebook, Holloway No. 86. "American Opera" Notebook belonging to the period before 1855 The Library has photostats of eight pages from this notebook; they measure 6 1/4 by 3 3/4 inches, and are rules with horizontal lines 5/16 of an inch apart. The entries visible in the photostats are in pencil, except for one in the middle of a page, which is in ink. Two passages on "American Opera," printed by Clifton J. Furness on p. 201-202 of Walt Whitman's Workshop (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1928), have been identified as coming from this notebook. Two facing pages are reproduced from photostats, opposite. [*-16-*] If there be some brute [that is] very sagacious and intelligent And as being of our human race no more sagacious and intelligent than that animal - is one preferred to the other? Equality of all right and power is infamous[?] regarded by selfp[?] The cause of the ruin of all states that have been ruined has been that the whole body of the inhabitants without exception were not equally interested in the preservation of those states or cities - or that [?] portion was degraded[?] [*1 2 3*] [*LIBRARY OF CONGRESS*] form[?] of a poem or the composition in which[?] the opinions are expressed: by different wise men or youths as 1st wise[?] man, 1st youth 1st woman, - or as expressed by Socrates, Christ [The expression of] [a perfect [with] made man appears] [not only in his face - but] [in his limbs - The motions [of his hands and arms and all his] [joints - his walk - the] [carriage of his neck] [-- and the flex of his] [waist and hips] [Dress does not hide him. The[?]] Notebook belonging to the period before 18557. "Hospital" Notebook -- "Platner and Porter, Congress." This notebook has no cover, but the outside sheet is stamped, "Platner and Porter, Congress." The Library of Congress has photostats of four pages, measuring 6 1/4 by 3 7/8 inches. The writing on all four is apparently in pencil, but there is an insertion in ink on the fourth. The "Scene in the Woods on the Peninsula" which appears on one of them is printed in Charles I. Glicksberg, Walt Whitman and the Civil War (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1933), p. 123-124; Glicksberg adds a third paragraph beginning "At Antietam," which does not follow continuously in the manuscript. Whitman apparently used only the right-hand pages of the notebook. These pages, the rectos of the first two leaves, are reproduced from photostats, opposite. [*-18-*] scene in the woods the peninsula - told me by Milton[?] Roberts, [?] of[?] Maine) After the battle of White Oaks church on the retreat the march at night - the scene between 12 & 2 o'clock that night at the church in the woods, the hospital shown at night, the wounded brought in previous[?] the silent slack[?] march through the woods, at [?] stumbly over the bodies of dead men in the road (there had been terrible fights there [*1 2 3*] [*LIBRARY OF CONGRESS*] Meat[?] [The] Day only closing at dark) - we retreaty the artillery[?] horses feet muffled, orders that men should tread light & only speak in whispers - Then between [1] midnight & 1 oclock we halted to rest a couple of hours at an opening in the woods - in this opening was a pretty good sound[?] old church used [improm] impromptu for a hospital for the wounded of the Hospital Notebook, "Platner and Porter, Congress."8. "Hospital" Notebook No. 3, 1865. This notebook is inscribed by Mr. Harned, "One of the note books used by W. W. in his Army hospital work." The Library of Congress has photostats, somewhat reduced in size, of two pages, which are reproduced, opposite. Two short passages printed by Charles I. Glicksberg in Walt Whitman and the Civil War (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1933) are, according to William L. Finkel, also from the contents of this notebook. One, on Glicksberg's page 181, is a dated entry: Feb. 13 '65 - Wrote to Capt. Mason, enclosing $28, for box of provisions he purchased & sent to George from City Point. The other, on page 128, is a verse draft: I heard The blue birds singing I saw the yellowish green where it covered the willows I saw the eternal grass springing up The light of the sun on the bay - the ships, dressed with I saw in the distant city the gala flags flying I saw on the ships the profusion of colors I knew of the fete, the feasting --Then I turned aside & mused on the unknown dead I thought of the unrecorded, the heroes so sweet & tender The young men The returned - but where the unreturned I thought of the unreturned, the sons of the mothers. [*-20-*] Charles Boughton young man. (boy) 17 who speaks to me on [?] (Albert G Knapp) [*Feb. 5*] Charles Howard [Feb. 5 *'65*] gs wd in upper left breast] Arty William Smith Penn boy[?] wounded to [?] Stanton Hosp[?] [*May 3,*] [*left hand in*] [*white [?]*] [*1 2 3*] [*LIBRARY OF CONGRESS*] Alexander Work Mount Morris Livingston County " NY Charles Bunker's mother in South 6th St near 4th (80 something) - as you go up from cars[?], left hand, wooden house, high stoop - Find out about family[?] of Capt. [Ernest?] E. Jenkins. (Killed May 6) - he has or had a younger brother home here wounded9. "Oratory" Note and Scrapbook. Clifton J. Furness, in Walk Whitman's Workshop (Harvard University Press, 1928) reproduced two pages of manuscript notes opposite his page 34, and in a note in page 209 gave the following description: This is written in a notebook, marked "Oratory," which is in the Library of Congress. As will be seen in the illustration (p. 34) it is made up of all sizes of paper scraps pasted together inside the cloth covers of an old book. Most of the entries are made on heavy blue paper, a uniformity which is unusual with Whitman. The various notes seem to be written with a surer touch, and fewer revisions, than is the case with the lecture memoranda jotted on loose scraps of paper. This probably indicates that he copied the notes into this book from rough drafts made elsewhere, placing them here only when he was satisfied of the permanent value. To this should be added the fact that a large part of the contents consisted of printed clippings, and that one entire 38-page pamphlet, Charles Murray Nairne's Oration delivered before the Philoclean and Peithessophian Societies of Rutgers College (New York, 1857) was pasted or laid in. Much additional information concerning this unique item will be found in an article by William L. Finkel, "Walt Whitman's Manuscript Notes on Oratory," in American Literature, March 1950 (Vol. 22, p. 29-53). The Library of Congress has photostats of Nairne's pamphlet, underlined and annotated by Whitman, of 17 pages of clippings, and of seven pages of notes. A sample of each variety is reproduced on the three following pages. The book which was used for mounting these diverse materials was quite small -- about 6 by 3 7/8 inches as appears from the photostats. [*-22-*] [* We furnish good ends to all investigations*] [*of all doubts and*] [*ttributes*] Harry Franklin the sailor that had the [?] affection of the heart - with his boy on the of the Fulton[?] bank * going to be married on a day, and there is excitement and confusion that Of all the killed without mercy.' 'Would it not [?] a ban, 'to cram him In the shape and then smother him in his own blood served?" The majority of the [?] pleased with this punishment and w[?] condemns him without further delay [?] rose up to give his opinion: 'I am says this counsellor. 'that the prisoner has left a wife with child behind him knowledge in divination, I foresee that [*1 2 3*] [*LIBRARY OF CONGRESS*] Public Speakers -Quarterly Review April -Unflagging vitality and Determination in every assertion, flight, suggestion, hazarding[?], withdrawing, inquiry, rubuking, moroseness, poetic, & of an oration - as shown and ejected in the vocalism of every word expression those parts - that is what makes the main of a great speaker. - [*try it*] Oratory Note and Scrapbookand just As we mistaken they also be the past continually want[?] for men and boys. We are[?] rewarded[?] of men and women We [?] beautiful attributes. [We offer what there] We afford solutions of all doubts and We furnish good ends to all obligations[?] [*1 2 3*] [*LIBRARY OF CONGRESS*] Public Speakers ? is a great PURPOSE OR EARNESTNESS. Sir E. Bulwer-Lytton in an eloquent address before the Glasgow University, on the occasion of his being chosed to the Rectorship, in January last, after advocating the study of Greek and Latin as parts of a liberal education, saying that education can not be partial and one-sided without it, then argues a definite purpose for the use of their culture. "All men are not born with genius, but every man can acquire purpose, and purpose is the nature and backbone of genius—nay, I can scarcely distinguish the one from the other." Here we have the testimony of a genius that genius is WILL and WORK. "With purpose comes the grand secret of all worldly success, which some men call will, but which I would rather call earnestness." If he were asked what attribute must commanded men and fortune, he would say my "earnestness." "Take for instance the House of Commons as the highest type of a popular assembly. What is mind, as it is with all life [?] [?] -tions. The earnest man wins way for himself, and earnestness and truth go together." [*try it*] [*20*] sing on the ignorant, and fitted to provoke the mirth of wise men, if their disgust did not strike their laughter. Archbishop Whateley who, although himself an orator, is yet an an admirable judge of eloquence, has said, and, by the way, we recommend to all students his observations on this point—that elocution and declamation go [?] studied have spoiled more speakers that they have bene- fitted. In this I heartily agree with the Archbishop; for the artificial inflexions, tones, postures, [?] forth of the hands and [?] rolling of the eyes, exhibited by persons who attempt to put their elocutions in practice, and their ambitious imitations of the [?] which they have parrotted for [?], counterfeit nature [?] [?] than the great stiff, staring dolls that excite rustic [?] in the shop windows of a metropolitan hair dresser. One [?] of real nature is worth a whole eternity of such [?]- [?] If our attention to gesture and inflexions have been carried as far as to [?] all acknowledging of [?] and [?], then we have really made a valuable acquisition. We can then give our feelings full play, without the risk of ungrace- fulness. But if our art and practice in vocal gymnastics go not so far as to conceal themselves by becoming a second nature, we had better rest [?] with that which nature has originally bestowed in us, and which she will certainly not fail to display, if we believe[?] her with the faith of true men. The accomplished musician thinks of his [?] not of his fingers, when he charms the [?], and [?] [?] the speaker of his theme, and not of his tones and [?] if he would charm the soul. His voice must be attuned, his limbs must be [?], as his thoughts must his suppli- [*back*] [*4 leaves*] [*1 2 3*] [*LIBRARY OF CONGRESS*] [*29*] "lives in memory of a vanished power, which even his extraordinary writings fail adequately to represent." Still the writings, apart altogether from their delivery, are extra- ordinary; and that is the real point of distinction between declamation and genuine eloquence. Doctor Chalmer's oratory was effective, partly in conse- quence of his style and delivery, and partly in spite of these. His style was formed upon that of the old puritan and presbyterian divines; but it was at the same time very much his own. Their phrases and idioms he adopted—and he [?] them because they were, in a great measure, the same as, or similar to, those of the Bible; but the structure of his periods was entirely different from theirs. It was not [?], neither did it bear the marks of being easily executed. The fact is, that composition as well as speaking, in the case of Chalmers, was a laborious matter, an in both, he appears to have had an utter aversion to common-place, or to anything resembling common-place. H[?] his very limited extra[?] power. Doctor Samuel Johnson thought in the same style with other men. and then translated the ideas they embodied, into his well- known [?] and mechanical rythm. Instances of this double [?] are on [?]—instances in which the great [?]alist first expressed himself in ordinary terms, and then clothed the [?] [?] in its characteristic dress. It was [?] with Chalmers. His [?] and [?] [?] spoken language, was translated from the ordinary vehicle of thought, into his own [?]. But in this style, with all its impurities, there is a force, and a majesty, and great music, which, in themselves, [?] a fascination— Oratory Note and Scrapbook10. The "Reading Book". This is described and analysed at some length in Furness, Walt Whitman's Workshop (Harvard University Press, 1928), p. 204-206. According to him, the following note appears on the cover: "Walt Whitman used this book in his public readings. He had it with him for many years, and on several occasions read from it, usually after his Lincoln lecture -- T. B. Harned." The Library has a photostat of the outside of the front cover -- marbled, and with reinforced corners, probably leather -- with the simpler inscription, "Whitmans Reading Book." The longer one cited by Furness is probably on the inside of the cover or on the fly leaf. The majority of the contents is printed on galley sheets and pasted in. "It was Whitman's custom," Furness tells us elsewhere (p. 248), "to have slips of manuscript, of his own poetry and poems that he wished to use for public readings, set up at a print shop in Camden constantly." The following list of contents includes some items from other sources. The Diver, by Schiller. Last Words, a comic poem; newspaper clipping. John Anderson, My Jo. Thou Who Hast Slept All Night Upon the Storm (The Man-of-War-Bird), by Whitman. The Battle of Naseby. The Bridge of Sighs. Ode on the Passions, by Collins. The Singer in the Prison, by Whitman. The Whale Chase (selections from A Song of Joys), by Whitman. The Raven, by Poe; sheets torn from National Fifth Reader. [*-26-*] The Sailor's Wife, by W. J. Mickle. O Captain! My Captain! by Whitman. The Mystic Trumpeter, by Whitman. The Midnight Visitor, a translation from the French of Henri Murger. Proud Music of the Storm, By Whitman. The Midnight Visitor, from Anacreon (see reproduction). Untitled poem by Lord Houghton, beginning: "It was a holy usage to record . . ." Last item: a manuscript memorandum for a contemplated poem, a "Piece to celebrate the Dead of the War". The Library of Congress has photostats of the cover and four pages; the cover and two of the pages are reproduced on the following pages. They show the pages of the notebook as 7 1/4 by 4 3/4 inches, with horizontal ruling and (in two out of the four specimens) vertical accountbook ruling (two rules at left, and three - including one double rule - at right). On the pages without the vertical ruling may be seen, at the upper left, alphabetical guide indentations, with index letters from R to Z. [*-27-*]Whitmans Reading Book [*1 2 3*] [*LIBRARY OF CONGRESS*] The Reading Book [From A[?]] THE MIDNIGHT VISITOR T'was noon of night, when round the Pole, the sullen Bear is seen to roll, [And] When mortals wearied with the day, Are slumbering all their cares away; An infant, at that dreary hour, Came weeping to my silent bower, And waked me with a piteous prayer To save him from the chill wet air. "And who art thou," I, starting, cry, "That mak'st my blissful dreams to fly!" ["O gentle sir," the young one said,] [In pity take me in thy shed;] Nor fear deceit—"O Sir" with tearful voice and then[?] The young one said, "O take me in" A lonely child, Faint, lost, I wander o'er the wild, Numb with the rain, while not a ray Illumes the drear and unknown way." [*the*] I hear the little baby's tale of woe, While sharp the bitter night winds blow, And eager to relieve his fate Trimming my lamp, I ope the gate. Tis ['Twas] Love—the little mystic sprite! His pinions sparkle through the night! I know him by his bow and dart, I know him by my fluttering heart; I take him in, and quickly raise The smouldering embers' cheery blaze, Press from his dank, his clotted hair, The crystals of the freezing air, And to my inner body hold His little fingers stiff and cold. [*1 2 3*] [*LIBRARY OF CONGRESS*] The Reading Book11. The Butterfly. This curious item derives its importance from the fact that the Whitman was photographed with it looped on his forefinger as though a real butterfly has poised there, and this photo became the frontispiece of the birthday edition of Leaves of Grass published on May 31, 1889. Whitman evidently tried to make William Roscoe Thayer believe that it was an actual insect, and Mrs. Esther Shephard first pointed out that the cardboard item was doubtless the "prop" in the photograph (Walt Whitman's Pose, Harcourt, Brace, 1938, p. 250-252, and illustrations opposite pages 212 and 228). The photostats reproduced opposite bring out the details better than Mrs. Shephard's plates, but we are dependent upon her for the information that, on the inside, the lettering is in gold, and the border around the edge dull red. On the outside, the spots on the wing are yellow, the other colors blue, green and red. The loop is fine wire. The page which appears in the photostat has disappeared with the butterfly, but the remainder of the notebook or tablet to which the page belongs is still in the Whitman Papers. [*-30*-] (This means far far more than appears at first) THE FIRST BEGOTTEN OF THE DEAD FOR US HE ROSE, OUR GLORIOUS HEAD. IMMORTAL LIFE TO BRING WHAT THOUGH THE SAINTS LIKE HIM SHALL DIE, THEY SHARE THEIR LEADER'S VICTORY, AND TRIUMPH WITH THEIR KING [?] [*1 2 3*] [*LIBRARY OF CONGRESS*] The ButterflyPart II. WALT WHITMAN MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS A. Collections Composed Preponderantly of Whitman Manuscripts and Related Material 1. The Walt Whitman Papers. [ca. 1850-1890] (Accessions 1879, 2025, 2027). This collection as received consisted of manuscripts, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, pamphlets, periodicals, and printed volumes of Whitman's writings, presented by Thomas B. Harned, oned of Whitman's executors. The books and pamphlets are in the Rare Books Division. The material in the Manuscripts Division is composed of 72 letters from Anne Gilchrist to Whitman, 1871-1885; 25* notebooks kept by Whitman, some undated, other dated 1855-1863; about 30 letters and notes from T. W. H. Rolleston to Whitman, 1881-1887, together with a few drafts of Whitman's replies; Whitman's personal scrapbook; a scrapbook containing press accounts of Whitman's death; newspaper clippings, many of them annotated and reflecting Whitman's interest in religion, history, politics, and literature; as well as many pieces containing poetic and prose quotations and early drafts of his own writings. Among the drafts are: "Eidólons," "Vistas," "Leave Taking," "From Noon to Starry Night," "A Clear Midnight," "Supplement Hours," "Poem to Commemorate the New Water Works, 1890," "Little Memorandums of a Half-Paralytic Outdoors"; there are numerous variants of other writings. Also included in the collection are the page proofs of Second Annex: Good-Bye My Fancy with corrections by Whitman; and certain bound volumes such as Whitman Broadsides, 1855; Walt Whitman Papers, 1881-1884; [binder's title] , a collection of letters from James R. Osgood and his associates to Whitman with drafts of Whitman's replies in the controversy over the demand of the publishers for revisions *There were 24 in the original count. An additional item, loosely assembled when received, has been bound by the Library and is referred to as the 25th notebook. Ten of the original 24 are among the items now missing. [*-33-*]in the printed text of Leaves of Grass; and Walt Whitman Lincoln Material [binder's title] , a volume prepared at the suggestion of the late William E. Barton and comprised of extracts from various portions of the Harned Collection to illustrate the evolution of Whitman's thought on the death of Lincoln. 2. Lewis K. Brown Collection. [1863] (Accession 3273). Three letters from Lewis K. Brown to Walt Whitman. 3. George S. Hellman Collection. (Accession 7754). Ten poetry and prose manuscripts by Whitman belonging for the most part to the Civil War period, mounted in one volume, illustrated with portrait prints of Whitman and Abraham Lincoln. 4. Hannah Whitman Heyde Collection. [ca.1853-1873] (Accession 6640). Six letters from Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman; sixteen letters from Hannah Whitman Heyde to Walt Whitman; and thirty-seven letters from Hannah Whitman Heyde to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman. 5. Johnston and Wallace Collection. [1887-1892] (Accession 2942). One hundred and three post cards and letters from Walt Whitman to John Johnston and J. W. Wallace of Bolton, England, members of the "Walt Whitman Fellowship: International." 6. Rudolph Max Kauffmann Collection. [1887] (Accession 4093). Photostats of three Whitman documents, one dated 1887, the others undated. [*-34-*] 7. The National Archives - Whitman Collection. [1864-1874] (Accession 6734). Photostats of Walt Whitman's correspondence with government officials while Whitman was employed as a clerk in the Departments of Justice and Interior. 8. Whitman Family Letters. [ca. 1863-1891] (Accession 7805). Fourteen letters addressed to Whitman from various members of his family. 9. Whitman Miscellany. A group composed of "The Soldier of Ultimate Victory," (Accession 8963, pt. 2), broadside; "O Captain! My Captain!" (Accession 7118), proof-sheet, revised and corrected in Whitman's hand, with letter from Whitman to the printer on verso; "Specimen Days," (Accession 8016, pt. 2), fragment of original manuscript, with portrait print of Whitman; letter from Whitman to Peter Doyle, (Accession 3517), transcribed and printed from original written on end-papers of a copy of Specimen Days and Collect; and untitled and undated manuscript, (Accession 8963, pt. 2), containing Whitman's comments on contemporary poets. B. Fugitive Whitman Manuscripts 10. American Academy of Arts and Letters Collection. (Accession 9552). Six Walt Whitman manuscripts including the poems "O Brood Continental," "The Dalliance of Eagles," and a one-page manuscript from Specimen Days. 11. John Burroughs Papers. (Accession 6691). Page proof of a part of John Burroughs' essay on Walt Whitman (pp.18-61) with corrections in the handwriting of Burroughs and Whitman. [*-35-*]12. Poetry Archive (Accession 7059). Miscellaneous Walt Whitman manuscripts including a rough draft of "Interpolation Sounds"; a manuscript beginning with "The great themes . . ."; typewritten transcripts of some of Whitman's Civil War notebooks; a manuscript beginning with "Think a moment . . ."; and a letter from Whitman to D. L. L., October 28, 1890. 13. Robert G. Ingersoll Papers. (Accessions 4226 and additions 1-10, 7795, 7882). Post card from Walt Whitman to Robert G. Ingersoll, Apr. 3, [1890]. 14. Louise Chandler Moulton Papers. (Accession 970). Note from Walt Whitman to Mrs. Moulton, Feb. 2, 1881, with enclosed announcement of autograph and photograph edition of Leaves of Grass. Also undated post card transmitting the book. 15. Philip Bourke Marston Papers. (bound separately, but as a part of the Moulton Papers, Accession 970). Post card from Walt Whitman to Philip Bourke Marston, Sept. 7, [?], transmitting a copy of Two Rivulets. 16. Whitelaw Reid Papers. (Accession 10,105). Eleven letters from Walt Whitman to Whitelaw Reid, some undated, the others ca. 1874-1882. 17. Ainsworth R. Spofford Papers. (Accession 8916) Undated letter of Walt Whitman to Ainsworth Rand Spofford inquiring about the dates of his copyrights on Leaves of Grass. [*-36-*] 18. Benjamin Holt Ticknor Papers. (Accessions 7287, 7470). Letter from Walt Whitman to Benjamin Holt Ticknor, Dec. 18, 1881, concerning the publication and distribution of a new edition of Leaves of Grass. C. Collection of Whitmaniana 19. Gertrude Atherton Papers. (Accessions 7147, 8440). Comments on Walt Whitman by Gertrude Atherton in correspondence dated ca. 1885. 20. John Burroughs Papers. (Accession 8238). Letter from John Burroughs to Dewitt Miller, Apr. 14 [?], relating to Whitman's Leaves of Grass. 21. Grover Cleveland Papers. (Accession 1599 A). Letter from William M. Rossetti to President Grover Cleveland, June 13, 1885, referring to Walt Whitman's illness and poverty. 22. Clarence S. Darrow Papers. (Accession 8373). Typescript copies of a lecture on Whitman, prepared and delivered by Clarence S. Darrow. 23. William Sloane Kennedy Papers. (Accession 7713). Williams S. Kennedy's Reader's Handbook to Leaves of Grass, typescript, with annotations by the author. [*-37-*]24. Poetry Archive. (Accession 7059). Reproductions of portraits, photographs, etc. of Walt Whitman; a bas-relief in plaster of Whitman's head. 25. Helen Price Papers. (Accession 7155). Thirteen letters and two post cards from Helen Price to R. M. Bucke, one of the literary executors of Walt Whitman, 1881-1897. 26. Logan Pearsall Smith Papers (Accession 752). Comments on Walt Whitman by Logan Pearsall Smith in extracts from a letter of Aug. 18, 1887. 27. Gustave P. Wiksell Collection (Accession 6168). Papers relating to Walt Whitman and the "Walt Whitman Fellowship: International," consisting mainly of letters from Horace Traubel, one of the literary executors of Walt Whitman, to Wiksell, 1894-1939. Ca. 361 pieces. Included are printed material, clippings, prints, and a transcript of a Whitman notebook by Horace Traubel. 28. Whitman Family Papers. [1848-1873] (Accession 7837). Twenty-four letters written for the most part to Hannah L. Whitman by her grandchildren; several mention Walt Whitman. -38-4 1/2 = 11 cm 7 = 18 cmFROM DIVISION OF FINE ARTS To Dr. Martin Is this catalogue of any interest to you? If so you may keep it. [*File with Walt Whitman material.*]