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Items Whitman, Louisa Van Velsor, mother, ALS to. Bound volume of 10 letters, 1866-68. Individual letters listed separately.

Whitman, Louisa Van Velsor, mother, ALS to. Bound volume of 10 letters, 1866-68. Individual letters listed separately.

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature

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Walt Whitman papers, 1854-1892

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Series III. Outgoing Correspondence

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Title
Whitman, Louisa Van Velsor, mother, ALS to. Bound volume of 10 letters, 1866-68. Individual letters listed separately.
Names
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 (Author)
Whitman, Louisa Van Velsor, 1795-1873 (Recipient)
Collection

Walt Whitman papers, 1854-1892

Series III. Outgoing Correspondence

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1866-03-02 - 1868-04-16
Place: Washington, DC
Library locations
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Shelf locator: Berg Coll MSS Whitman
Shelf locator: Walt Whitman Autograph Letters to his Mother
Genres
Correspondence
Notes
Citation/reference: Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00203, 204, 205, 208, 212, 255, 256, 280 & hyb.00001 (postscript to letter held at Ohio Wesleyan University). Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), #173, 1:272-73; #174, 1:273; #180, 1:277-78; #195, 1:292-93; #217, 1:311-12; #218, 1:312-13; #286, 2:27-28; #232, 1:325-26. See individual entries.
Content: ALS, Mar. 23, 1866, nyp.00203, 1 leaf [1 written side]; ALS, Mar. 28, 1866, nyp.00204, 1 leaf [2 written sides]; ALS, Apr. 28, 1866, nyp.00205, 1 leaf [1 written side]; ALS, Jun. 12, 1866, nyp.00208, 1 double leaf [4 written pages]; ALS, Oct. 30, 1866, nyp.00212, 1 leaf [2 written sides]; ALS, Feb. 5, 1867, nyp.00255, 1 leaf [2 written sides]; ALS, Feb. 12, 1867, nyp.00256, 1 double leaf [4 written pages]; ALS, Apr. 2, 1867, nyp.00262, 1 leaf [2 written sides]; ALS, Apr. 23, 1867, hyb.00001, 1 leaf [1 written side] (postscript); ALS, Apr. 16, 1868, nyp.00280, 1 leaf [2 written sides].
Ownership: W. T. H. Howe.
Physical Description
Extent: 1 bound volume: 20 leaves
[1 free end paper; 2 blank leaves; 1 engrossed title page; 1 leaf with ALS [1 written side] mounted; 1 leaf with ALS [2 written sides] mounted; 1 leaf with ALS [1 written side] mounted; 1 leaf with ALS [4 written pages] mounted; 1 leaf with ALS [2 written sides] mounted; 1 leaf with ALS [2 written sides] mounted; 1 leaf with ALS [4 written pages] mounted; 1 leaf with ALS [2 written sides] mounted; 1 leaf with ALS [1 written side] mounted; ; 1 leaf with ALS [2 written sides] mounted; 6 blank leaves; 1 free end paper]. All written on headed writing paper from Attorney General's Office. Typed transcriptions, loose, inserted, 10 leaves. Catalog entry relating to sale of volume, loose, 1 leaf.
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15520479
MSS Unit ID: 19100
Accession number: 175239B--175248B
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 5e1ac310-9344-0130-a51b-58d385a7bbd0
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Item timeline of events

  • 1819: Creator Born
  • 1866: Created (Approximate)
  • 1892: Creator Died
  • 2014: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "Whitman, Louisa Van Velsor, mother, ALS to. Bound volume of 10 letters, 1866-68. Individual letters listed separately." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1866 - 1868. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/61b765c0-a7b7-0131-5d87-58d385a7b928

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "Whitman, Louisa Van Velsor, mother, ALS to. Bound volume of 10 letters, 1866-68. Individual letters listed separately." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/61b765c0-a7b7-0131-5d87-58d385a7b928

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. (1866 - 1868). Whitman, Louisa Van Velsor, mother, ALS to. Bound volume of 10 letters, 1866-68. Individual letters listed separately. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/61b765c0-a7b7-0131-5d87-58d385a7b928

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Whitman, Louisa Van Velsor, mother, ALS to. Bound volume of 10 letters, 1866-68. Individual letters listed separately.