Henry S. Saunders collection of Walt Whitman papers
Contributors: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Correspondence; Poetry; American poetry
Description: Letters and postcards (1887-1892) from Walt Whitman to John Johnston and J.W. Wallace of Bolton, England.  Also includes correspondence of Richard M. Bucke and Horace Traubel; a memoir (1915) of Whitman written by Saunders; and a series of greeting cards (1911-1923) sent by Saunders and his wife Georgina utilizing poems and quotations of Whitman, Traubel, and others.
Notes: Open to research.

Transfer, Library of Congress Poetry Office, 1943.

Gift, Harriet C. Sprague, 1944.

Purchase, 1990.

Collection material in English.

Described, in part, in: Walt Whitman : a catalog based upon the collections of the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. : 1955.