Original records created by Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections; revised and expanded by the Walt Whitman Archive and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. Encoded Archival Description completed with the assistance of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation, the University of Nebraska Research Council, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
This electronic catalog was created from the original catalog record obtained by The Walt Whitman Archive. The original manuscript and catalog record are held at Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections, Magill Library, Haverford College.
Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections has at least six documents that relate to Walt Whitman, five of which are letters to, from, or about him. This catalog only describes the item deemed a poetry manuscript.
For additional biographical information, see "Walt Whitman", by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price, and the chronology of Whitman's Life.