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Walt Whitman collection : ms., circa 1876-circa 1890.
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Walt Whitman collection : ms., circa 1876-circa 1890Livezey-Whitman manuscripts
Livezey-Walt Whitman collection
Herman Livezey-Whitman collection
Creator/Contributor:
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892, creatorCreator/Contributor:
Livezey, Herman, 1892-1947, former owner.Abstract:
The bulk of items are literary manuscripts in the form of fragmentary working notes for Whitman's Specimen days & collect.
Also includes correspondence or fragments of correspondence, miscellaneous notes, other papers related to his work, and a
self-fashioned notebook containing brief entries made on a trip to Kansas and Colorado in 1879 (WW 47, folder 82). The only
poem present is "Wood odors" (WW 3, folder 6), although some have argued it is not a poem but rather a compilation of phrases
for use elsewhere. One ALS from Whitman to David Lezinsky in Berkeley, Calif. (Nov. 30, 1890) and a page of notes on Walter
Scott, probably for Whitman's Backward glance o'er travel'd roads, were apparently added from another source (folders 122-123).
Six printed facsimiles (made in 1913 by Traunel and Boni) are also included, from a different source (folder 124)
Date:
1876 (issued)Subject:
Poets, American -- 19th centuryPoètes américains -- 19e siècle
Poets, American
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Inventoried and cited as the "Livezey-Whitman manuscripts" by Rena G. Grant in the Walt Whitman Review, March 1961
Filmed prior to arrangement of originals, therefore in a different order.
Box 1: RESTRICTED ORIGINALS. USE PHOTOCOPIES ONLY. Photocopies housed in Box 2. Use of originals only by permission of the
appropriate curator.
Selected items (WW 2 - WW 21, WW 51 - WW 68) : Also available on microfilm.
Photocopies of all items available in box 2.
Material given to Herman Livezey by Ruth Ann Stafford, probably in the mid-1930s. The material was reportedly left by Whitman
at the Stafford family home in Glendale, New Jersey.
Two portraits transferred to the Portrait File of The Bancroft Library (Whitman POR 1 and POR 2).
Preliminary register prepared by Rena Grant for Doe Library Rare Books and Special Collections in 1962 available in the library.
Type:
Poems.Physical Description:
1 box (84 folders of originals, 1 folder of 6 facsimiles)
1 box
1 microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 738:12) and positive
Language:
English
Origin:
United StatesCopyright Note:
Box 1: RESTRICTED ORIGINALS. USE PHOTOCOPIES ONLY. Photocopies housed in Box 2. Use of originals only by permission of the
appropriate curator.