Walt Whitman papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: Correspondence; Social life and customs; American prose literature; Politics and government; American literature; Poetry; Election; American poetry; Presidents
Description: Correspondence, literary manuscripts, family papers, printed matter, and miscellany relating to Whitman's life and work.  Includes a printed copy of "O Captain! My Captain!" with Whitman's handwritten corrections.  Also includes his early correspondence with Abraham Leech which covers such topics as life on Long Island, New York, and the presidential election of 1840.  Correspondents also include Whitman's mother, Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, and his sister, Hannah Louisa Whitman Heyde.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition of the Furness notebook available, no. 11,058.

In part, transcripts and photocopies. [S.l.].

Gift, transfer, and purchase, 1927-2001.

Poet.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.

Certain items described in Walt Whitman : a catalog based upon the collections of the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. : 1955.