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Box 1

 Container

Contains 63 Results:

Typescript letter signed Carolyn Wells Houghton, New York City, to June [Jessie?] Whitman, St. Louis, Missouri. Houghton, a collector of Walt Whitman items, asks for “the date of the contract of the tomb . . . for the purpose of completing my data.”, 1928 Feb 28

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists primarily of Whitman family correspondence, including 17 letters and notes written by Walt Whitman, which were published in Edwin Haviland Miller, “New Letters of Walt Whitman,” Bulletin of the Missouri Historical Society, Volume XVI, Number 2, January 1960.

Dates: 1928 Feb 28

Letter signed Harriet Sprague, New York City, to Miss [Jessie] Whitman. Sprague, a collector of Walt Whitman items, describes the Whitman House in Camden, New Jersey., 1928 Dec 23

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists primarily of Whitman family correspondence, including 17 letters and notes written by Walt Whitman, which were published in Edwin Haviland Miller, “New Letters of Walt Whitman,” Bulletin of the Missouri Historical Society, Volume XVI, Number 2, January 1960.

Dates: 1928 Dec 23

Typescript letter signed Will S. Monroe, Waterbury, Vermont, to Miss [Jessie] Whitman, St. Louis. Monroe is preparing a work titled Walt Whitman and His Contemporaries, and asks Miss Whitman “for anything bearing on Walt Whitman that you thought might be of use.”, 1930 Feb 3 (postmark)

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists primarily of Whitman family correspondence, including 17 letters and notes written by Walt Whitman, which were published in Edwin Haviland Miller, “New Letters of Walt Whitman,” Bulletin of the Missouri Historical Society, Volume XVI, Number 2, January 1960.

Dates: 1930 Feb 3 (postmark)

Letter signed Harriet Sprague (Mrs. Frank J. Sprague), New York City, to Miss [Jessie] Whitman. She has collected many Walt Whitman letters, and asks Miss Whitman for permission to publish some of them., 1934 Mar 26

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists primarily of Whitman family correspondence, including 17 letters and notes written by Walt Whitman, which were published in Edwin Haviland Miller, “New Letters of Walt Whitman,” Bulletin of the Missouri Historical Society, Volume XVI, Number 2, January 1960.

Dates: 1934 Mar 26

Photocopy of a portion of The New York Times Magazine article titled “Our ‘Good Gray Poet’: The National Library Celebrates Whitman, His Foothold Still ‘Mortis’d in Granite.’”, 1939 May 28

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists primarily of Whitman family correspondence, including 17 letters and notes written by Walt Whitman, which were published in Edwin Haviland Miller, “New Letters of Walt Whitman,” Bulletin of the Missouri Historical Society, Volume XVI, Number 2, January 1960.

Dates: 1939 May 28

Photocopy of Courier-Post (Camden, New Jersey) newspaper clipping titled “Walt Whitman Statue at World’s Fair.” Includes photograph of the statue., 1939 May 30

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists primarily of Whitman family correspondence, including 17 letters and notes written by Walt Whitman, which were published in Edwin Haviland Miller, “New Letters of Walt Whitman,” Bulletin of the Missouri Historical Society, Volume XVI, Number 2, January 1960.

Dates: 1939 May 30

“Walt Whitman: A Sketch Biography” by James Waldo Fawcett. Read at a banquet given by the Association of South Jersey Stamp Clubs, Walt Whitman Hotel, Camden, New Jersey. (16 pages), 1940 Feb 20

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists primarily of Whitman family correspondence, including 17 letters and notes written by Walt Whitman, which were published in Edwin Haviland Miller, “New Letters of Walt Whitman,” Bulletin of the Missouri Historical Society, Volume XVI, Number 2, January 1960.

Dates: 1940 Feb 20

Printed announcement regarding Walt Whitman exhibition, principally from the collection of Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague, to be held May 9-June 27, 1942, at the University of Pennsylvania Library., 1942

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists primarily of Whitman family correspondence, including 17 letters and notes written by Walt Whitman, which were published in Edwin Haviland Miller, “New Letters of Walt Whitman,” Bulletin of the Missouri Historical Society, Volume XVI, Number 2, January 1960.

Dates: 1942

Printed article from the Courier-Post (Camden, New Jersey) titled “Foundation Created to Preserve Works of Whitman.”, 1946 May 1

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists primarily of Whitman family correspondence, including 17 letters and notes written by Walt Whitman, which were published in Edwin Haviland Miller, “New Letters of Walt Whitman,” Bulletin of the Missouri Historical Society, Volume XVI, Number 2, January 1960.

Dates: 1946 May 1

Printed will receipt of Jessie L. Whitman from the Boatmen’s National Bank of St. Louis, agreeing to care for her last will and testament, which she deposited at the bank., 1946 Aug 21

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists primarily of Whitman family correspondence, including 17 letters and notes written by Walt Whitman, which were published in Edwin Haviland Miller, “New Letters of Walt Whitman,” Bulletin of the Missouri Historical Society, Volume XVI, Number 2, January 1960.

Dates: 1946 Aug 21