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• Author/Creator:Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
  
• Title:Walt Whitman collection, 1842-1949.
  
• Physical Description:11.65 linear ft. (18 boxes) + 1 broadside folder + 7 art.
  
• Links:View a description and listing of collection contents in the finding aid
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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: YCAL MSS 202
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Notes:Acquired by gift from various sources.
  
• Organization:Organized into six series: I. Owen Franklin Aldis Gift, 1867-1888. II. Walter Gierasch Gift, 1887-1908. III. Mrs. Bernard Gimbel Gift, 1855-1887. IV. Louis Mayer Rabinowitz Gift, 1863-1891. V. Adrian Van Sinderen Gift, 1842-1925. VI. Material from Other Sources, 1866-1949.
  
• Access and use:Boxes 16-18: Restricted fragile material. Reference surrogates have been substituted in the main files. For further information consult the appropriate curator.
• Biographical / Historical note:Walt Whitman (1819-1892), poet and author.
  
• Summary:The Whitman collection consists of letters, manuscripts, photographs, artwork, and personal papers documenting the life and work of Walt Whitman. There is personal and business correspondence from Whitman to family, friends, editors, and publishers, including Richard Maurice Bucke, John Burroughs, Julius Chambers, Moncure Conway, Nathan Hale, James R. Osgood and Company, George Routledge & Sons, William Sloane Kennedy, William Michael Rossetti, John Swinton, and Louisa Whitman. There are letters to Whitman from Civil War soldiers and from a number of writers, including Samuel Clemens, John Camden Hotten, William Douglas O'Connor, Allen Thorndike Rice, and Algernon Swinburne. There is also a small group of third-party correspondence to Whitman scholar George Rice Carpenter.
  Whitman's writings are well represented in the Rabinowitz and Van Sinderen gifts. The Writings subseries in the Van Sinderen gift includes subdivisions for autobiographical writings, diaries, lectures and speeches, notes and notebooks, outlines and proposals, poetry and the writing of others. The writings are present chiefly in galley proofs, many corrected and signed, and holograph manuscripts.
  Photographs and artistic representations of Whitman include work by well-known nineteenth century photographers, studios, and artists. There are photographs by Thomas Eakins, William Kurtz, Major & Knapp Engraving, and Brady National Photographic Art Gallery. Works of art include a bust of Whitman by Samuel Murray, a woodcut by Bertrand Zadig, and engravings by Samuel Hollyer, William James Linton, and Stephen Alonzo Schoff. Also of note are papers relating to George Whitman and New York Civil War regiments.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Indexes/Finding aids:Finding aid available.
  
• Cite as:Walt Whitman Collection. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
  
• Subjects:Bucke, Richard Maurice, 1837-1902.
  Burroughs, John, 1837-1921.
  Carpenter, George R. (George Rice), 1863-1909.
  Chambers, Julius, 1850-1920.
  Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907.
  Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916.
  Hale, Nathan, 1784-1863.
  Hollyer, Samuel, 1826-1919.
  Hotten, John Camden, 1832-1873.
  Kennedy, William Sloane, 1850-1929.
  Kurtz, William, 1833-1904.
  Linton, W. J. (William James), 1812-1897.
  Murray, S. (Samuel)
  O'Connor, William Douglas, 1832-1889.
  Rice, Allen Thorndike, 1851-1889.
  Rossetti, William Michael, 1829-1919.
  Schoff, Stephen Alonzo, 1818-1904.
  Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909.
  Swinton, John, 1829-1901.
  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
  Whitman, George Washington, 1829-1901.
  Whitman, Louisa Van Velsor, 1795-1873.
  Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
  Zadig, Bertrand.
  Whitman family.
  United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 51st (1861-1865)
  Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries.
  George Routledge and Sons.
  James R. Osgood and Company.
  Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co.
  American literature--19th century.
  Authors, American--19th century--Archives.
  United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
  
• Genre/Form:Engravings (prints)
  Photographic prints.
  
• Occupation:Authors.