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Revising Himself: Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass
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Childe Hassam (1859-1939)
Walt Whitman's House
Etching, 1927
Digital ID# ppmsca-07145
Prints & Photographs Division (1)

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) to Abraham Paul Leech (1815-1886),
September 9, 1840
Holograph letter
Manuscript Division (2)

Gabriel Harrison, photographer
Walt Whitman, 1854
Copyprint from reproduction of daguerreotype
Digital ID# ppmsca-08542
Prints & Photographs Division (4)

Fulton Ferry Boat (Brooklyn, New York), July 1890
Copyprint of cabinet card
Digital ID# ppmsca-07542
Prints & Photographs Division (5)

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Notebook with trial lines for Leaves of Grass, ca. 1847-1854
Manuscript Division (6)

Whitman's pen
Manuscript Division (8)

Walt Whitman
"Brooklyniana"
[announcement of a series of vignettes written in twenty-five installments, printed June 8, 1861-November 1, 1862]
Brooklyn Daily Standard (June 3, 1861)
Manuscript Division (3)

Whitman's copy of the libretto for Gioacchino Rossini's La Gazza Ladra [The Thieving Magpie],
End of Act I
Printed libretto
Rare Book & Special Collections Division (7)

"Notebook on an Intended Dictionary"
Bound manuscript written on wrappers from the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass
Manuscript Division ( 9)

Alexander Gardner (1821-1882), photographer
"The Sunken Road" at Antietam [September 1862].
Hartford, Connecticut : The War Photograph and Exhibition Company
Stereograph
Digital ID# ppmsca-07751
Prints & Photographs Division (24)

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Hospital notebook "At Antietam"
Manuscript Division (24A)

War for the Union. Photographic War History
Wounded soldiers from the battles in the "Wilderness" at Fredericksburg, Virginia, May 1864
Copyprint
Digital ID# ppmsca-cwpbh-03386
Prints & Photographs Division (25)

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman (1795-1873), December 29, 1862
Page 2 - Page 3
Holograph letter
Manuscript Division (22)

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Quarter-plate daguerreotype, ca. 1855
Digital ID# cph 3d02063
Prints & Photographs Division (23)

Mathew Brady (1822-1896), photographer
Walt Whitman
Carte de visite, ca. 1862
Digital ID# ppmsca-08541
Prints & Photographs Division (21)

Walt Whitman to Bethuel Smith (b. 1841), September [16], 1863
Page 2
Holograph letter
Manuscript Division (26b)

"Bethuel Smith, Glens Falls N.Y. one of my war hospital friends of 1863-4" (written on verso in Whitman's hand)
Carte de visite, ca. 1865
Digital ID# ppmsca-07370
Prints & Photographs Division (26a)

Ward K, Armory Square Hospital, Washington, D.C. [August 1865] (located on the site of the present-day National Air and Space Museum)
Copyprint
Digital ID# ppmsca-08543
Prints & Photographs Division (28)

List of synonyms and notes for "Ashes of Heroes" [first published as "Hymn of Dead Soldiers"]
Holograph notes
Manuscript Division (29a, 29b)

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Drum-Taps (first issue). New York: 1865
Rare Book & Special Collections Division (30)

Walt Whitman
"When Lilacs Last In the Dooryard Bloom'd"
Drum-Taps (second issue). New York: 1865
Rare Book & Special Collections Division (31)

"O Captain, My Captain," [1865]
Printer's proof with author's corrections, 1888
Manuscript Division (32)

Engraved portrait of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) with note in Walt Whitman's hand, after April 1865
Manuscript Division (33a,b)

Walt Whitman's Lecture. Death of Abraham Lincoln. Philadelphia: April 15, 1880
Walt Whitman on Abraham Lincoln. New York: April 14, [1887]
Printed tickets
Prints & Photographs Division (34a, 34b)

Reading copy "Death of Lincoln" lecture, 1879
Bound printed and manuscript pages
Manuscript Division (35)

"Walt Whitman"
Stereotype showbill plates, 1872
Steel printing plates
Prints & Photographs Division (14a, 14b)

Walt Whitman.
Democratic Vistas.
Washington, D.C.: J.S. Redfield, 1871
Rare Book & Special Collections Division (36)

Map of North America showing Whitman's travel
Printed map with Whitman's red pen annotations
Manuscript Division (38)

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle (1843-1907), November 5, 1879
Page 2
Holograph letter
Manuscript Division (37)

M.P. Rice, photographer
Washington, D.C., 1865--Walt Whitman & his rebel soldier friend Pete Doyle
Albumen print, ca. 1865
Digital ID# ppmsca-07387
Prints & Photographs Division (39a)

Lock of Peter Doyle's hair, n.d.; Lock of Walt Whitman's hair, 1892
Manuscript Division (39b, 39c)

Walt Whitman (1891-1892) to Peter Doyle (1843-1907), August 21, 1869
Page 2 - Page 3 - Page 4
Holograph letter
Manuscript Division (41)

Walt Whitman
Holograph notebook page, July 15, 1870
Manuscript Division (40)

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
["I Sing the Body Electric"] from Enfans d'Adam (Children of Adam) poems in Leaves of Grass.
Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860
Rare Book & Special Collections Division (42)

Attorney General's Office
"Appointment of Walt Whitman as 3rd Class Clerk; Treasury Department, Washington, D.C.," November 13, 1866
Manuscript Division (44)

William Douglas O'Connor (1832-1889)
The Good Gray Poet: A Vindication.
New York: Bunce & Huntington, 1866
Rare Book & Special Collections Division (43)

W. Curtis Taylor (Broadbent & Taylor), photographer
"Whitman with butterfly, 1877,"
Albumen photograph frontispiece in sample proof of Leaves of Grass, 1891
Rare Book & Special Collections Division (48)

Cardboard butterfly, n.d.
Reverse
Manuscript Division (49)

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist (1828-1885), November 3, 1871
Page 2
Holograph letter
Manuscript Division (45a)

Misses Davison Royal Polytechnic Studio, London
Anne Burrows Gilchrist
Carte de visite, ca. 1871
ppmsca-07393
Prints & Photographs Division (45b)

British subscription sales list
Manuscript annotated in red by William Rossetti (1829-1915) and by Walt Whitman in black
Manuscript Division (50)

Walking stick inscribed "To Walt Whitman, 'A Calamus,' From John Burroughs"
Detail
Hardwood
Manuscript Division (46)

William Douglas O'Connor (1832-1889) to John Burroughs (1835-1917)
Page 2
Holograph letter
Manuscript Division (47)

Bartlett F. Kenney, photographer
Walt Whitman
Albumen print, 1881
Digital ID# ppmsca-07389
Prints & Photographs Division (53)

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) to Walt Whitman, [1882]
Holograph letter
Manuscript Division (51)

Napoleon Sarony (1821-1896), photographer
Oscar Wilde
Albumen print, 1882
Digital ID# ppmsca-07756
Prints & Photographs Division (52)

Dr. John Johnston, photographer
[Warren "Warry" Fritzinger (1866-1899) and Walt Whitman at the Camden docks], 1890
Copyprint
Digital ID# ppmsca-07548
Prints & Photographs Division (57)

Harry Stafford (b. 1858)
Hand-colored tintype
Digital ID# ppmsca-07384
Prints & Photographs Division (56)

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Title page of Leaves of Grass ("deathbed" edition) with author's note to the printer, 1892
Manuscript Division (58)

"A Thought of Columbus"
Manuscript page
Manuscript Division (59)

Walt Whitman
Good-bye My Fancy, 1891
Holograph manuscript
Manuscript Division (54)

Whitman's spectacles
Manuscript Division (55)

Dr. William Reeder, photographer
[Whitman in his bedroom], ca.1891
Digital ID# ppmsca-08540
Copyprint from original albumen print
Prints & Photographs Division (60)

Horace Traubel (1858-1919)
Diary notes, March 26, 1892
Page 2
Manuscript Division (61)

Walt Whitman
Burial vault design
Graphite and pen drawing
Manuscript Division (62)

[Walt Whitman's Harleigh Cemetery tomb (Camden, New Jersey)], ca. 1892
Print from original photograph by William Kurtz
Digital ID# ppmsca-07540
Prints & Photographs Division (63)

Translations of Leaves of Grass
Rare Book & Special Collections Division, African & Middle Eastern Division, Asian Division, & General Collections (64c-64h; 64a, 64b)

Walt Whitman Cigars "Blades O' Grass"
Cigar box, ca. 1898
Manuscript Division (65)

Antonio Frasconi (b. 1919), artist
Frederico Garcia Lorca's (1898-1936) "Oda a Walt Whitman,"1959
Woodcut print
Digital ID# ppmsca-07150
Prints & Photographs Division (66)

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997). Howl and Other Poems. San Francisco: City Lights Pocket Bookshop, 1956
Rare Book & Special Collections Division (67)

Elliot Carter (b. 1908)
Warble for Lilac-Time, 1943
"Revised" manuscript score
Music Division (68)

F.W. Birchall, photographer
Old Corner Bookstore [Boston], ca.1897-1899
Copyprint made from original cabinet card
Digital ID# ppmsca-08990
Prints & Photographs Division (70)

Assorted cast dies used in printing the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass
Brass
Prints & Photographs Division (14c-k)

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Leaves of Grass (from left to right). Brooklyn: 1855; Brooklyn: 1856; Boston: 1860-1861; New York: 1869; Washington: 1871; Camden, New Jersey: 1876; Boston: 1881-1882; Philadelphia: 1888, Philadelphia: 1891-1892
Rare Book & Special Collections Division (10a-i)

Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass (first edition).
Frontispiece: Samuel Hollyer engraving based on a Gabriel Harrison daguerreotype.
Brooklyn 1855
Rare Book & Special Collections Division (11)

Leaves of Grass (fifth edition).
Frontispiece: W.J. Hennessey engraving.
Washington: 1872
Rare Book & Special Collections Division (12)

Leaves of Grass (author's edition).
Frontispiece: Reproduction of photograph by James Wallace Black, March 1860.
[Camden]: 1891
Rare Book & Special Collections Division (13)

Walt Whitman
Page of Leaves of Grass, 1855
Manuscript page
Manuscript Division (15)

Notes on its themes, n.d.
Manuscript pages
Manuscript Division (16)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) to Walt Whitman (1819-1892), July 21,1855
Page 2
Holograph letter
Manuscript Division (17)

Walt Whitman
"Walt Whitman and His Poems," 1855
Printed review
Manuscript Division (18)

Fanny Fern (1811-1872) to Walt Whitman, April 21, [1856]
Holograph letter
Manuscript Division (19)

Assorted cast dies used in printing the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass
Brass
Prints & Photographs Division (14c-k)

Walt Whitman
Commonplace book, kept March 2, 1876-May 30, 1882
Manuscript Division (20)

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