Original records created by the Special Collections Division of Brown University Library; revised and expanded by the Walt Whitman Archive and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. Encoded Archival Description completed with the assistance of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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• Title: Catalog of a Walt Whitman Literary Manuscript in the John Hay Papers, John Hay Library, Brown University
• Collection Number: brn.ead01
• Creator: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
• Repository: John Hay Library Special Collections

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• Abstract:

  This catalog was created from records created by the staff of Brown University Library, and obtained by the Walt Whitman Archive. The original papers and catalogue records are held at John Hay Library, Brown University.

• Scope and Content:

  The John Hay collection documents the life of John Milton Hay (1838-1905), Brown Class of 1858, and consists of two major components: A collection of approximately 2000 books and Hay's personal papers, comprising over 9,100 items. These include correspondence, diaries, manuscript poems, galley proofs, and personal letterpress copy books. Only the Walt Whitman poetry manuscript is described in this catalog.

• Biographical Information:

  For additional biographical information, see "Walt Whitman", by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price, and the chronology of Whitman's Life.

• Subjects:
  • Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
  • Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts
  • Poets, American--19th century

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