The Inventory
of the
Rollo G. Silver
Collection
#457
Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center SILVER, ROLLO COLLECTION
Gift of June 1969
Walt Whitman Material
Box 1 A) Whitman manuscripts and letters
1) "Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's". Proof of poem with
Whitman's holograph corrections.
/", - (2)} 11 Sail Forth O Mystic Yacht". Poem. Holograph, 1 p.
i '(3f)11 Notes for Lecture". Holograph, 1 p.
4) "I have had one feeling ... ". Prose piece. Holograph, 1 p.
5) Check. Holograph. "Pay to the order •of George W. Whitman.
April 5, 1877."
6) Letters and envelopes: in chronological order: c;)} ALS to John Swinton, Feburary 23, 1863. Holograph envelope
laid in. /\ ~)/ ALS to John M. Binckley (Acting Attorney General) re:leave
of absence from the Attorney General's Office, Washington,
August 31, 1867. Envelope laid in. Signed also by Binckley,
granting request.
c) Holograph envelope addressed by Whitman to John Swinton,
postmarked April 5 which contained Scovel, James M., ALS to
John Swinton re: Whitman, April 4, 1876.
d) Postal card in holograph to John Swinton, Camden, New Jersey,
March 12, ~1878J •
'' _(§ ALS ~o Hank, his nephew, Camden, May 5, d-88~1 2 pp. on 1 leaf, Ii ir') 'Mary. - ~) Postal card in holograph to Mrs. CostellDW' (~fj Whitall Smith,
later Mrs. Bernard Berenson) Camden U.S. Americaj, July 8, 1887,
g) Postal card in holograph to Edward Carpenter, Camden, New
Jersey, October 29, 1891,
h) Holograph envelope to Charles W. Eldridge. Introducing Walter
Godey. page 2 ROLLO SILVER Gift of June 1969
i) Holograph envelope addressed to Pete Doyle, rostmarked
Philadelphia, August 14.
j) Holograph envelope addressed to John Swinton.
B) Letter to Whitman
Unsigned holograph postcard, 1888 addressed to "Walt Whitman, the
American Poet". Postmarked Paris (See Traubel's WITH WALT WHITMAN
IN CAMDEN, Vol. 2, Part 1, P. 371)
C) Whitman related items.
1) Colored wrapper for the 1855 edition of LEAVES OF GRASS.
2) Proof of advertisement for Whitman's Lecture on Lincoln's
Assassination.
3) House of Representatives 49th Congress 2nd Session. Report No.
3856. "Walt Whitman" Report from Committee on Invalid Pensions,
February 1, 1887.
D) Correspondence relating~ Whitman's dismissal from the Interior
Department by Secretary Harlan.
1) Ashton, J. Hubley. TLS to Charles W. Eldridge, Washington, D.C.
June 3, 1902, 5 P•
2) Brigham, Johnson. TLS to John Burroughs, Des Moines, Iowa.
November 14, 1910, 5 P•
E) Advertisements and announcements for Whitman's books.
1) Photocopy of New York Illustrated News ad for LEAVES OF GRASS.
June 9, 1860.
2) Horace Traubel's advertisement, 1902, for the publication of
LEAVES OF GRASS (edition of 1860-1861) in facsimile of the poet's
own copy. 2 copies. page 3
ROLLO SILVER Gife of June 1969
3) Photostatic copy of WW's own advertisement for the sale of
COMPLETE POEMS AND PROSE, LEAVES OF GRASS AND PORTRAITS FROM
LIFE.
4) Announcement of the Peter Pauper Press limited edition of LEAVES
OF GRASS, October 6, 1950.
5) Prospectus for LEAVES OF GRASS. Comprehensive REader's Edition,
New York University Press, no date.
6) Announcement of publication of AN 1855-56 NOTEBOOK TOWARD THE
SECOND EDITION OF LEAVES OF GRASS and WITH WALT WHITMAN IN
CAMDEN, from Southern Illinois University Press, 1959.
7) Announcement for OUT OF THE CRADLE ENDLESSLY ROCKING and PICTURES
by The June House, Cos Cob, Connecticut.
8) Broadside announcing NOTES AND FRAGMENTS, July 1899.
9) Advertisement for THE WOUND DRESSER, Small M~yna~d.
10) Publication announcement of NEW YORK DISSECTED, The Press of the
Pdtoneers, 1935.
11) Ad for FAINT CLEWS AND INDIRECTIONS Edited by Clarence Gohdes
and Rollo G. Silver.
12) Advertisement for WALT WHITMAN'S BLUE BOOK THE 1860-61 LEAVES OF
GRASS. Facsimile of copy in Oscar Lion Collection, New York,
Public Library, 1968,
13) Notice of book "from an unpublished MMS by Walt Whitman"
100 copies,
F) Reviews of books E1. Whitman.
1) "Walt Whitman's Poems" by W.M.Rosetti. Review of LEAVES OF GRASS.
New·Yotk Citizen, August 10, 1867. page 4 ROLLO SILVER Gift of June 1969
2) "Walt Whitman and the Poetry of the Future". Review of LEAVES OF
GRASS. Clip from a New York paper, 1881.
3) LEAVES OF GRASS. Rees, Walsh edition. Clip from newspaper, Ca. 1882.
4) LEAVES OF GRASS. Random House edition. Clip from newspaper.
5) Alt 1855-56 NOTEBOOK TOWARD THE SECOND EDITION OF LEAVES OF
GRASS. Review by Roger Asselineau. Reprint from ftudes Anglaises
t. XII, no. 4.
6) WALT WHITMAN'S BACKWARD GLANCES. Review in THe Times Literary
Supplement, October 4, 1947.
7) I SIT AND LOOK OUT, EDITORIALS FROM THE BROOKLYN DAILY TIMES.
News clip. Source and date unknown.
8) CALAMUS. Version nouvelle de Leon Bazalgette. Review "Whitman in
France" in Times Literary Supplement, Feburary 26, 1920.
9) FAINT CLEWS AND INDIRECTIONS edited by Clarence Gohdes and
Rollo G. Silver. In The Columbia Missourian, April 21, 1950.
G) Pieces by Whitman
1) "Autobiographic Note. From an old remembrance copy". Photo
duplication.
2) "Bardic Symbols". Poem, no date. Tearsheets from The Atlantic
Monthly, April 1860.
3) "The Dead Tenor". Poem. In The Critic and Good Literature, November 8,
1884.
4) "Death's Valley". Poem. Tearsheet, no source.
5) "Facts in the Matter of Worthington Illegally Publishing 'Leaves
of Grass' 11 • Typescript, 1 p. , of manuscript in the Huntington
Library, San Marino, California. page 5 ROLLO SILVER Gift of June 1969
6) "Last Words". Special printing of poem not previously published.
The Kindle Press, 1959.
7) "Kentucky". Poem. Reprint from Prairie Schooner. Vol. 32, No. 3,
Fall 1958.
8) "O Captain! My Captain!". Poem. (The Death of Abraham Lincoln
April 16, 1885). Broadside, no date. Illustrated by Schnell ✓.
9) "O Star of France". Poem in The·sattirday Review·of Literature,
Vol. XXV, No. 46. November 16, 1942.
10) "Old Chants". Poem. Tearsheet· from Truth, no date,
11) "Rise, lurid stars". Poem. Tearsheet. Reproduction of manusc±Jpt.
12)"Ship of Democracy". Poem in Think on These Things. Published
by Association Press, 1943. Given to servicemen/ by YMCA, 2 copies,
13) "This Is What You Shall Do". Poem. Broadside, July 4, 1955.
14) "To the Sun-Set Breeze". Tearsheet of poem with printed signature.
No source, no date.
15) "Wood Odors_", Poem in Harper's, Vol. 22, No. 1327. December 1960.
page 43.
16) "The Sobbing of the Bells". Poem in Garfield Assassination memorial
illue of The Boston Daily Globe, September 27, 1881.
17) Facsimile of letter of Whitman to Dr. Johnston, Bolton, February 6,
1892 with "Extract from letter: Horace L. Traubel to Dr. Johnston,
Bolton, England. in which he says WW wanted facsimile of February
6th letter made and sent to friends.
H) Advertisements for book s about Whitman (Arranged alphabetically
by author.)
1) WHITMAN'S IDEAL DEMOCRACY AND OTHER WRITINGS by Helena Born.
2) WALT WHITMAN by Richard Maurice Bucke, 1883. page 6
ROLLO SILVER Gift of June 1969
3) SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD: WALT WHITMAN. Portfolio of sketches by
Lewis Daniel. With holograph note to Rollo Silver signed "Bertha".
4) I, WALT WHITMAN by Randolph Goodman. Published by the Library
Associates of Brooklyn College,
5) WALT WHITMAN AS RELIGIOUS AND MORAL TEACHER: A Study by William
Norman Guthrie.
6) WHITMAN: THE POET LIBERATOR OF WOMEN by Mabel McCoy Irwin. With
an announcement of lecture series by her also: "Walt Whitman and
His Gospel".
7) WALT WHITMAN THE POET OF HUMANITY by William Sloane Kennedy.
8) tHE MAGNIFICENT IDLER: THE STORY OF WALT WHITMAN by Cameron
Rogers.
9) 100 WHITMAN PHOTOGRAPHS by Henry S. Saunders Photostat of holo
graph advertisement.
10) AT THE GRAVESIDE OF WALT WHITI-1AN Harleigh, Camden, New Jersey,
March 30th and SPRIGS OF LILACS 1892, by Horace L.Traubel,
2 copies.
11) IN RE WALT WHITMAN by Horace L. Traubel, no date.
12) WITH WALT WHITMAN IN CAMDEN by Horace Traubel.
13) CHANTS COMMUNAL by Horace Traubel.
14) WHITMAN AND TRAUBEL ~y William English Walling. 2 different
advertisements.
15) INDEX TO EAR.LY AMERICAN PERIODICAL LITERATURE 1728-1870, no. 3.
Walt Whitman.
16) List of privately printed books published in small editions
by Henry S. Saunders. 6 books re: Whitman. page 7
ROLLO SILVER Gift of June 1969
I) Reviews of books about Whitman arranged by author.
1) Gay Wilson Allen's WALT WHITMAN. Review by William Leo Finkel
in The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XLV, No. 2, January 15, 1948.
Page 55.
2) Newton Arvin's WHITMAN and John Erskine's THE START OF THE ROAD.
Review by Ralph ~mpson in The New York Times, October 25, 1938.
3) Newton Arvin's WHITMAN. Review by Wilson Follett: "Walt Whitman
as the Poet of Socialism" in The New York Times Book Review,
November 27, 1938.
4) John Bailey's WALT WHITMAN. Review in Times Literary Supplement,
June 17, 1926.
5) Clara Barrus' WHITMAN AND BURROUGHS: COMRADES. Review by
R,L.Duffus: "Burroughs and the Whitman Cult" in The New York
Times Book Review, June 7, 1931.
6) William E. Barton's ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND WALT WHITMAN. Review by
Joseph Collins. Newspaper clip, source unknown and newspaper
photograph: "The Interior of the Linoln Room in Dr. Barton's
Museum at Foxboro".
7) Harold Blodgett' s WALT WHITMAN IN ENGLAND. "Whitmanism" review
in Times Literary Supplement, August 30, 1934. 2 copies.
8) Gerald Bullett's WALT WHITMAN. Review in Times Literary Supplement,
January 22, 1925.
9) Henry Seidel Canby's WALT WHITMAN. Review by Clifton Joseph
Furness in.Boston Globe, November 10, 1943.
10) Henry Seidel Canby's WALT WHITMAN, Review in New York Times Book
Review by John Erskine, November 7, 1943. page 8 ROLLO SILVER Gift of June 1969
11) Basil de Selincourt's WALT WHITMAN: A Critical Study, Review in
Times Literary Supplement, February 26, 1914.
12) John Erskine's THE START OF THE ROAD. Review by Lewis Gannett,
Source unknown.
13) Emory Holloway's WHITMAN. Review in Times Literary Supplement,
February 3, 1927. 2 copies.
14) Emory Holloway's WHITMAN. Review by Hervey Allen in Saturday
Review of Literature.
15) Haniel Long's WALT WHITMAN AND THE SPRINGS OF COURAGE. Review by
Stanton Coblentz, Source unknown.
16) Haniel Long's WALT WHITMAN AND THE SPRINGS OF COURAGE. Review by
John Erskine in New York Herald, July 2, 1938.
17) Edgar Lee Masters' WHITMAN. 11 An Appraisal of Whitman, Man and Poet,
That ls of Permanent Value", The New York Sun, March 3, 1937.
18) Edgar Lee Masters' WHITMAN. Review by Peter Monro Jack in the
New York Times Book Review, March 7, 1937.
19) Edgar Lee Masters' WHITMAN. Review by Mark Van Doren, New York
Herald Tribune Books, February 28, 1937.
20) Edgar Lee Masters' WHITMAN. Review by Clifton Joseph Furness in
The Saturday Review, March 27, 1937.
21) Bliss Perry's WALT WHITMAN, His Life and Work. Review, unsigned,
no source: "Whitman and His Verse".
22) Esther Shephard's WALT WHITMAN'S P1.0SE. Review by Peter Monro
Jack in The New York Times Book Review, April 17, 1938. 2 copies.
23) Esther Shephard's WALT, WHITMAN'S PjOSE. Review by Mark Van Doren.
Source unknown. page 9
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24) Honace Traubel's WITH WALT WHITMAN IN CAMDEN. Review by
Jessie B. Rittenhouse of Traubel's book and Binn's A LIFE
OF WHITMAN. The New York Times, Saturday Review of Books,
Febraury 24, 1906.
25) Horace Traubel's WITH WALT WHITMAN IN CAMDEN. Review of Traubel's
book and Binn' s A LIFE OF WHITMAN. The Evenil1g Post, New York
Mar ch 10 , 19 0 6 .
26) Frances Winwar's AMERICAN GIANT. Review by Herbert Gorman in
The New York Times Book Review, November 16, 1941.
2n) Frances Winwar's AMERICAN GIANT. Review by Clifton Joseph Furness.
Reprint from Alnerican Literature, Vol. 12, no. 4, January 1942.
J) Parodies of Whitman's Poems.
1) "A Poem that Walt Whitman Never Published". News clip, source unknown.
2) "The Man Shopper". News clip, Source unknown.
3) "Lumps of Dirt". Typescript copy of item from The Pellet, A Record
for the Mass. Homeopathic Hospital Fair, Boston. April 16-27, 1872.
4) "The Revival" from Tabernacle Sketches by I.A.M. Cumming, Boston 1877.
Holograph of Rollo Silver, 4 pp.
Box 2 K) Whitman drawings and photographs. Framed items.
1) Announcement of WW's lecture on Abraham Lincoln, May 1, 1880.
Framed with newspaper clipping reporting the event signed by WW
and photograph of WW.
2) Photograph of WW by Pearsall.
3) Profile of WW.
4) Marilyn Monroe readipg LEAVES OF GRASS, News photograph.
5) Woodcut of WW with sun and stars. (Packaged separately).
6) Drawing of WW by Kotz. (Packaged separately). page 10
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7) Engraving of WW by unknown artist. (Packaged separately).
8) Etching of WW by Walls. (Packaged separately).
9) Max Beerbohm caricature of WW, "Walt Whitman Inciting the Bird
of Freedom to Soar". (Packaged separately).
10) Eng~aving of Camden, New Jewsey. Home of WW by H.S.Packard.
(Packaged separately).
L) Whitman drawings, photographs, pictures.
1) Portrait in color of WW on celluloid painted at Shaker Colony
at Mount Lebanon, New York. (Note: Holloway's article in The Colophon,
Part XIII).
2) 6 photographs of Whitman.
3) 2 snapshots of Whitman statue.
4) Copy of drawing of Whitman signed, dated February 3, 1 90.
5) 5 copies of photographs or etchings of Whitman.
6) "Where Walt Whitman Was Born". Reproduction of a drawing of
Whitman's birthplace.
7) Colored copy of photograph of Tomb of Whitman.
8) Postcards.
a) Walt Whitman Homestead, Long Island. (2).
b) Walt Whitman House, Mickle Street, Camden.
c) Walt Whitman's Home, Camden, New York (3). Differs from "b".
Box 3 M) Pieces about Whitman or related to Whitman. · Arranged alphabeti-
cally by author.
1) Alexander, Colin. "A Note on Walt Whitman". Reprint from .American
Literature. Vol. 9, No. 2, May 1939.
2) Allen, Gay Wilson. "Editing THE WRITINGS OF WALT WHITMAN A million
Dollar Project without a million dollars". Reprint from Atts·and Sciences, Vol. 1, No, 2, Fall 1962/1963. page 11
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3)Baker, Carlos. "The Road to Concord: Another Milestone in the
Whitman-Emerson Friendship" in The Princeton University
Library Chronicle, Vol. VII, no.3, April 1946. page 100.
4) Baker, Portia. "Walt Whitman's Relations with Some New York
Magazine~. Reprint from American Literature, Vol.7, No. 3,
November 1935. Inscribed by author to Rollo Silver.
5) Balseiro, Jose. "Walt Whitman" in The Carrell Journal of the
Friends of the University of Miami Library, Vol. 7, No. 1.
June 1966. page 1.
6) Barker, Mrs. Elsa. "The Oriental Elements in Whitman". Published
in The Open Road, no date.
7) Barker, Lloyd E. 11 0 Take My Hand Walt Whitman!". The Christian
Science Monitor, December 8, 1955.
8) Bayne, Peter. "Walt Whitman's Poems". Tearsheets from The
Contemporary Review, December 1875.
9) Beaver, Joseph. "Walt Whitman, Star Gazer". Reprint from Philology Journal of English and German· · ()! , Vol. XLVIII,
no. 3, July 1949.
10) Bergman, Herbert. "Whitman on Beethoven and Music". Reprint
from Modern Language Notes, December 1951. Inscribed by author.
11) Blodgett, Harold. "Walt Whitman's Dartmouth Visit" in
Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Vol.25, No. 5, February 1933, page 13.
12) Bradley, Sculley. "Whitman Paradise Lures Pilgrims". News clip
no source, no date.
13) Bradshaw, Wellesley. "To Walt Whitman". Poem. Newspaper clip,
source unknown~ page 12
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14) Canby, Henry Seidel. "Who Speaks for New World Democracy?"
in The Saturday Review of Literature, January 16, 1943.
15) Cestre, C. "Un intermede de la renorom~e de Walt Whitman ,, en France" in Revue Anglo-Aniericaine, Decem,her 1935. page 136.
16) Ciardi, John. "Whitman's Blue Book" in Saturday Review,
May 18, 1968.
17) Coad, Oral S. "Whitman vs. Parton" in The Journal of the Rutgers
University Library, Vol. IV, No. 1, December 1940. 2 copies, one
with author's signature, page 1,
18) Coad, Orals. "Whitman as Parent" in The·Jou:tnal·of·the Rutgers
University Library, Vol. VII, No.l, December 1943. Author's
signature on cover. page 31.
19) Coleman, Rufus A. "Trowbridge and Whitman". PMLA, Vol. LXIII,
No. 1, Part I, March 1948. Inscribed to Rollo Silver by the
author.
20) Coleman, Rufus A. "Trowbridge and O'Connor: Unpublished
correspondence with Special Reference to Walt Whitman". Reprint
from American Literature, Vol, 23, No. 3, November 1951.
Inscribed to Rollo Silver by the author.
21) Coleman, Rufus A. "Trowbridge and Burroughs". Reprint from
Modern Language Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 2, June 1953. Inscribed
to Rollo Silver by author.
22) Cooke, Alice L. "Notes on Whitman's Musical Background".
Reprint from The New England Quarterly, Vol. XIX, No. 2, June 1946. ------1 Inscribed to Rollo Silver by author.
23) Elwell, Herbert. "Whinman Poem of Drums Shows Orchestra's
Powers". Cleveland Plain Dealer, January 22, 1935.
page 13
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24) Fawcett, James Waldo. "America Judges Walt Whitman". The New
York Herald, July 15, 1923.
25) Feinberg, Charles E. "A Whitman Collector Destroys a Whitman
Myth". Separate from the Papers of the Bibliographical Society
of America, Vol. 52, Second Quarter, 1958.
26) Feinberg, Charles E. "Percy Ives, Detroit and Walt Whitman"
in The Detroit Historical Society Bulletin, Vol. XVI, No. 5,
February 1960.
27) Feinberg, Charles E. "Walt Whitman and His Doctors". Reprint
from The Archives of Internal Medicine. Vol. 114, December 1964.
28) Finkel, William Leo. "Robert Ingersoll's Oratory and Walt Whitman's Poetry". Reprint from Speech MorPgraphs.,. Research Annual, Vol. XVI, NO. 1, 1949. Inscribed to Rollo Silver by the Author.
29) Finkel, William L. "Walt Whitman's Manuscript Notes on Oratory".
Reprint from American Literature. Vol. 22, No. 1, March 1950.
Inscribed to Rollo Silver by author.
30) Finkel William L. "Sources of Walt Whitman's Manuscrii6pt
Note~: on Physique". Reprint from American Literature, Vol. 22,
no. 3, November 1950. Inscribed to Rollo Silver by author.
31) Fletcher, John Gould. "Walt Whitman". North American Review,
March 1924.
32) Foss, Sam Walter. "Walt Whitman". Poem. Source unknown.
33) Frenz, Horst. "Walt Whitman's Letters to Karl Knortz".
Reprint from American Literature, Vol. 20, No. 2, May 1948.
Inscribed to Rollo Silver by author.
34) Funnell, Walters. "A Short History of the Long Islander Founded
by WW in 1838".June 1947. Compiled by WSF and Rev. Edward J. Humeston. PAGE 14 ROLLO SILVER Gift of June 1969
35) Furness, Clifton Joseph. "Selective Bibliography of Publication".
Mimeograph, 3 pp. List of some articles re: Whitman, no date.
3 copies.
36) Furness, Clifton Joseph. Letter to editor re: WW. New York Times,
May 17, 1936.
37) Furness, Clifton Joseph. "Walt Whitman and Music". Reprint
from Special Libraries Association, November 1937.
38) Gohdes, Clarence, "Section 50 of Whitman's 'Song of Myself 111 in
Modern Language Notes, Vol. LXXV, December 1960. Inscribed to
Rollo Silver by author.
39) Golden, Arthur. "New Light on Leaves of Grass; Whitman's
Annotated Copy of the 1860 (third) Edition". Reprint from
the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Vol. 69, No. 5,
May 1965. Inscribed to Rollo Silver by the author.
40) Goodale, David. "Some of Walt Whitman's Borrowings". Reprint
from American Literature. Vol. 10, No. 2, May 1938.
41) Grier, Edward F. "Walt Whitman, The Galaxy and Democratic Vistas"
Reprint from American Literature, Vol. 23, No. 3, November 1951.
42) Harrison, Richard Clarence. "Walt Whitman and SHakespeare".
Reprint from PMLA, Vol. XLIV, No. 4, December 1929.
43) Havens, Raymond D.-Letter to Times Literary Supplement, March 12, 1925.
44) Hier, Frederick P. "When Boston Censored Walt Whitman". New York
Times Magazine, June 19, 1927.
45) Hollis, C. Carroll. "Names in ·Leaves of Grass". Reprint from
Names, Vol. V, No. 3, September 1957.
46) Hollis, C. Carroll. "Whitman and the American Idiom". Reprint
from The Quarterly Journal of Speech. Vol. XLIII, Vo. 4, December i957. Page 15 ROLLO SILVER Gift of June 1969
47) Holloway, Emory. "Schoolmaster Whitman". New York Herald Tribune
Books, January 5, 1936.
48) Holloway, Emory. "Whitman as Journalist". The Saturday Review
of Literature, April 23, 1932.
49) Hubach, Robert R. "Walt Whitman and the West". Digest of a
Thes•i'S ... Indiana University, 1943.
50) Hubach, Robert R. "Walt Whitman and Taliessein". Reprint from
American Literature, Vol. 18, No. 4, January 1947. Inscribed to
Rollo Silver by the author.
51) Hubach, Robert R. "This Land I love and Other Verse and Verse
Prose". Chicago, 1947. Booklet of poems.
52) Jones, Fred R. "Plaque on Professional Building to Honor Nassau's
Most Famous Literary Figure". Nassau Daily Review-Star,
August 1, 1939. Article re: Stuart Merrill and relationship
to Whitman.
53) Kennedy, Martin J. "Abraham Lincoln". Speech printed in Congressional
Recore! of February 12, 1942. Mentioning WW.
54) Kennedy, Walter. "Walt Whitman". The Nortl). Americqp. Review.,
June 1884.
55) Levin, Beatrice. "Walt Whitman's Christmas: 1866", Hobby Times
& Book Worm, Vol. 1, No, 16, 1948.
56) Lindsay, Vachel. "Walt Whitman". The New·Republie,
December 5, 1923,
57) Mabbott, Thomas Ollive. "Whitman's 'Lines on Duluth"'. Reprint
from American Literature, Vol. III, No. 3, November 1931.
Inscribed to Rollo Silver by the author.
PAGE 16
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58) Mabbott, Thomas Ollive. "Whitman's Song of Myself XLIII 29035"
in Explicator XI, 5, March 1953. With typed wigned note from
author to Rollo Silver.
59) Mabbott, Thomas Ollive. "Walt Whitman Edits the Sunday Times
July 1842-June 1943". Reprint from American Literature,
Vol. XXXIX, No. 1, March 1967. Author's signature.
60) Mackall, Leonard L (editor). "Notes for Bibliophiles: Whitman
and Bucke" in New York Herald Tribune Books, April 12, 1936.
61) McCoy, Charles G. "A Walt Whitman Memorial". Letter to the
New York Times, October 25, 1938.
62) Marlow, James. '"Leaves of Grass' Lost Whitman U.S.Job, So
MacLeish Just Laughs at Brickbats". News clip. Boston Traveler,
December 15, 1944.
63) Mary Eleanor, Sister, SH.C.J. "Hedge's Prose Writers of Germany
as a Source of Whitman's Knowledge of German Philosophy".
Reprint from Modern Language Notes, June 1946.
64) Matthiessen, F.O. Introduction to The Oxford Book of American
Verse. Oxford University Press, 1950. In brochure form.
Mentions WW.
65) Merritt, Jesse. "Walt Whitman The Long Islander". Ca. 1938.
Incomplete.
66) Miller, Edwin Haviland. "Walt Whitman's Corre~pondence with
Whitelaw Reid, Editor of the New York Tribune". Reprint
from Studies in Bibliography, Papers of the Bibliographical
Society of the University of Virginia, Vol. 8, 1956, 2 copies,
1 copy inscribed to Rollo Silver by the author. page 17
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67) Miller, F. De Wolfe. "Before the Good Gray Poet". No source,
no date.
68) Mitchell, Roy. "The Creative Spirit of Art". A Remarkable
Discourse on the Moti~ation and Inner Imaginative Forces at
Work in Great Art. Westwood, New Jersey, The Kindle Press,
1969. Mentions WW.
69) Monroe, Will S. "Whitman and W.K.Clifford" in Times Literary
Supplement, May 29, 1930.
70) Moore, John G. "A Poet's Responsibility". Reprint. No source,
2 copies.
71) Morley, Christopher. "Notes on Walt"in column "The Bowling
Green" in Saturday Review of Literature, Vol. XIV, no. 5,
May 30, 1936.
72) Morley, Christopher. Letter to Saturday Review of Literature
re: WW's paralytic stroke in 1873. February 23, 1939.
73) Nathan, Hans. "Walt Whitman and the Marine Band" in More Books,
The Bulletin of the Boston ?ublic Library, Vol. XVIII, No. 2,
February 1943. 2 copies.
Box 4 74) Platt, Isaac Hull. "Walt Whitman's 'sin against Chastity"'.
The Conservator, November 1906.
75) Platt, Dr. Isaac Hull. "Letter to the Editor" from a New York
newspaper, November 2, 1907,
76) Rittenhouse, Jessie R. "Walt Whitman". The New York Review of
Books, February 23, 1960.
77) Spitzer, Leo, "Explication de texte Applied to Walt Whitman's
Poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking'". Inscribed by
the author, unsigned, Reprint from ELH, Vol, 16, no. 3,
September 1949, page 18
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78) Stinson, Sam S. "Walt Would Have Roared". Letter to press.
Date and journal unknown.
79) Tolles, Frederick B. "A Quaker Reaction to Leaves of Grass"
Reprint from American Literature, Vol. 19, No. 2, May 1947.
80) Traubel, Horace L. "Walt Whitman's Letters". Letter to Editor.
News clip. No source, August 22, 1897.
81) Traubel, Horace L. "Whitman on His Contemporaries" from
The Camden Diary of Horace Traubel/American Mercury.
Off print, no date.
82) Trent, Josliah C. "Walt Whitman - A Case History". Reprint from
Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics. Vol. 87, pp. 113-121,
July 1948. 4 copies.
83) Warfel, Harry R. "Whitman's Salut au Monde: 'The Ideal of Human
Brotherhood'". Reprint from Phylon, Second Quarter, 1958.
84) Warfel, Harry R. "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking". No source.
85) Weathers, Willie T. "Whitman's Poetic Translations of His 1855
Preface". Reprint from American Literature. Vol. 19, No 1,
March 1947.
86) Weeter, Dixon. "Walt Whitman as Civil Servant". Reprint from
PMLA, Vol. LVIII, No. 4, Part I, December 1943. Inscribed by
author,
87) Weisenfeld, Phyllis. "Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself' and
Ralph Waldo Emerson" in.Essays and Studies by Students of
Simmons College, Vol, X, No. 2, March 1952, 5 copies.
88) White, Courtland Y. "A Whitman Ornithology". Reprint from
Cassinia, Vol. XXXV, 1945. page 19 ROLLO SILVER Gift of June 1969 89) White, William. "Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler". Reprint
from American Literature, Vol. II, No. 1, March 1939.
90) White, William. "More About the 'Publication' of the First
Leaves of Grass". Reprint from American Literature, Vol. XXVIII,
no. 4, January 1957.
91) White, William. "Sir Edmund Gosse on Walt Whitman". Reprint
from Victorian Studies, December 1957.
92) White, William. "Mary Whitall Smith's Letters to Walt Whitman".
Smith Alumnae Quarterly, February 1958, 2 copies. 1 Reprint,
1 Tearsheet.
93) White, William. "Whitman on Newspaper Practices in the 1870's".
Reprint from Journalism Quarterly, Vol. 37, no. 3, Summer 1960.
94) White, William. "Thirty-Three Unpublished Letters of Ralph Waldo
Emerson". Reprint from American Literature, Vol. XXXIII, No. 2,
May 1961.
95) White, William. "How to Become Eminent; or, Life Among the Feinberg
Mss". Reprint from Walt Whitman Birthplace Bulletin, Vol. IV,
No. 4, July 1961.
96) Whitmer, T. Carl. "Verse of Walt Whitman Holds Treasures for
Composer". In Musical America, May 28, 1921.
97) Zunder, Theodore I. "Walt Whitman, a kosmos of Manhattan the
son" in OK, publication of Brooklyn College, November 1943.
Inscribed to Rollo Silver by author.
N) Pieces about Whitman, brief mention, or entire issue devoted to him.
Unsigned. In chronological order.
1) "A Correction" re: Whitman. Labelled: Saturday Evening Post,
II June 23, 1860.
2) "Walt Whitman" in The Illustrated London News, November 16, 1889.
page 634.
page 20
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3) "Photographs of the Month: With portrait of Walt Whitman and
autograph card" in The Review of Reviews, Vol. III, No. 14,
February-March 1891, page 163.
4) Picture of WW with birth and death dates. The Illustrated London
News, Vol. er:, No. 2763, April 2, 1892.
5) "The New Criticism". About Whitman. Triggs Magazine, September 1905
6) Harper's Magazine, December 1906.
7) "Walt Whitman in France". News clip. New York pape~, April 16, 1911
8) "Walt Whitman: A Bibliographical Survey" in Bulletin of the
Brooklyn Public Library Third Series, Vol. II, No. 9, June 1919.
Walt Whitman Centenary.
9) Whitman quotation on verso of mimeograph letter from Freethinkers
of America, April 8, 1931.
10) Whitman readings in "Brooklyn College Assignments and Collateral
Readings for English 62. Mimeograph, 7 pp. 1932.
11) Reference to Whitman. Clip from The New Yorker, June 29, 1935.
12)"Whitman's Birthplace". News clip, The Evening Bulletin,
Providence, Thode Island, April 9, 1936.
13) News clip re: research on life of Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman,
April 19, 1936,
14) Death notice of Edmund Holmes who wrote "Walt Whitman's
Poetry: A Study and a Selection", New York Times, October 16, 1936.
15) Whitman issue of The University of Pennsylvania Library Chronicle,
Vol. 10, No. 2, June 1942. 2 copies.
16) "A Canadian Interview with Walt Whitman I &II" in American NOtes &
Queries , Vol. III, No. 2 and No. 3, May and JUNE l(}43, page 21 ROLLO SILVER Gift of June 1969
17) Mention of Whitman in Dr. F.O.Matthiessen's address to the
graduating class :im New England Conservatory Bulletin,
Boston, Massachusets, August 1943. 2 copies.
18) Whitman to Be Honored Brooklyn Library Branch to be Renamed for
the Poet". News clip, no source, November 30, 1943.
19) "Democracy". News clip quoting Whitman in New York Times
Magazine, April 16, 1944.
20) "Le Francais chez Walt Whitman". Le Petit Journal, No. 403,
1 Mai 1944.
21) "A dream marched to the swing of his words". Ad for John Hancock
Mutual Life Insurance Company of Boston. Reprint of advertisement
featuring WW published in various magazines, 1951.
22) "Walt Whitman's America Poet's Vis/ion spans a Century". News
clip from Buffalo Courier~Express Pictorial, April 3, 1955.
23) Nocturne Literary and Art Magazine Brooklyn College School of
General Studies, Vol. VII, Book I. April 1955. Half issue devoted
to Whitman. 2 copies.
24) "The Soft and Hidden Phrases" by Alice Moore with reference
to Whitman in Among Friends The Friends of the Detroit Public
Library, Inc. Fall 1956. New series.
25) Nassau Review, Whitman Issue, Spring 1965.
26) Cartoon of hippie reading Leaves of Grass, Clip from Look,
September 17, 1968.
27) "Grass Roots". Editorial quoting Whitman. No source, no date.
28) "The Whitman Memorial" re: Jo Davidson statue. News clip,
no source, no date.
29) "Walt Whitman". Picture and brief biography. News clip, no source
no date, page 22
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0) "Sundry Letters Re: Walt Whitman's Anomaly". Labelled "Paul
Munter". Shorthand Reporter, 71 Broadway".
Carbon typescript, 52 pp.
Box 5 P) Whitmaniana. Collected by A. Faustini, Brooklyn, New York.
Bound notebooks of clippings related to Whitman.
1) Volume I, 1922.
2) Volume II, 1923.
3) Volume III, 1924.
4) Volume IV, 1925 and 1926.
Q) Bound Magazine Articles about Whitman. Arranged by date, 1887-1929.
1) 11 A {!hat with the Good Gray Poet" by C.F.Willard in American
Magazine, December 1887.
2) "Walt Whitman at Date" by H.L.Traubel in New England Magazine,
May 1891.
3) 11 The Whitman-SHakespeare Question" by J, Trumbull in Poet
Lore, December 15, 1891.
4) "Walt WHitman" by P.L.Triggs in Poet Lore, June/July 1893.
5) "Walt Whitman and His Art" by John Burroughs in Poet Lore,
February 1894.
6) "Greek Traits in Walt Whitman" by E.C.Monck in Poet Lore,
June/July 1895.
7) "Shelley and Whitman: A Comparison and A Contrast" by
DR. I.H.Platt in Poet Lore, June/July 1896.
8) "Human Brotherhood in Whitman and Browning: A Topical Reading
Course". In Poet Lore, July/August/September 1898.
9) "Portraits of Walt Whitman" by R.M. Bucke in New England
Magazine, March 1899. page 23
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10) "Personal Reminiscences of Walt Whitman" by E.M.Calder in
Atlantic Monthly, Junel907.
11) "Walt Whitman's Early Life on Long Island" by W. Steell in
Munseys magazine, January 1909.
12) "Whitman in Whitman's Land" by H. Scheffauer in North
American Review, February 1915.
13) "Walt Whitman in New Orleans" by R.E.Holloway in The Yale
Review, October 1915.
14) "Walt Whitman" by G. Bradford irt Bookman, January 1916.
15) "Personal Memories of Walt Whitman" by A.C.Johnston in
The Bookman, December 1917.
16) "Walt Whitman" by H. Monroe in Poetry,May 1919.
17) "The Answerer: Walt Whitman" by E.F.Wyatt in North American
Review, May 1919.
18) "Whitman and Anne Gilchrist" by Edith Wyatt in North American
Review, September 1919.
19) "Walt Whitman's Love Affairs" by E. Holloway in The Deal,
November 1920.
20) "Whitman and the Cult of Confusion" by N. Foerster in North
American Review, June 1921.
21) "Childhood Traits in Whitman" by E. Holloway irt The Deal,
February 1922,
22) "The End of a Literary Mystery" by F,P,Hier, Jr. In American
Mercury, April 1924,
23) "Walt Whitman and the Aristidean" by T,O,Mabbott in American
Mercury, June 1924,
24) "Whitman on His Contemporaries" in American Mercury, July J, 1924, page 24
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25) "Walt Whitman on Himself" in American Mercury, October 1924.
26) "A Whitman Manuscript" by E. Holloway in American Mercury,
December 1924.
27) "Walt Whitman's Sister" by N.D.Butts iri. Bookman, January 1925.
28) "Walt Whitman's Neologisms" by Louise Pound in American
Mercury, February 1925.
29) "Walt Whitman and Italian Music" by Louise Pound in
American Mercury, September 1925.
30) "Whitman and Burroughs as Comrades" by Clara Barrus in
The Yale Review, December 1925.
31) "Whitman and His German Critics Prior to 1910" by O.F.Lessing
in American Collector, October 1926.
32) "Some New Whitman Letters" by Emory Holloway in American Mercury,
February 1929.
33) "Walt Whitman's Politics" by Clifton J. Furness, April 1929.
34) "Alias Walt Whitman"by H.O'Higgins in Harper's Magazine, May 1929.
35) "Walt Whitman in England" by Harold Blodgett in American
Mercury, August 1929.
Box 6 R) Walt Whitman Foundation
1) Walt Whitman Foundation Bulletin.
Volume III, no. 1, March 1950.
Volume IV, no. 1, April 1951.
Volume VI, no. 1, April 1953.
2) Brochure: "History and Program of The Walt Whitman Foundation".
3) Bir-tihday celebrations sponsored by Walt Whitman Foundations.
3 announcement sheets: a) May 31, 1934. b) May 31, 1936. c) May 31, 1939, page 25
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S)Walt Whitman Newsletter
1) New York University Press, Volume I, January-December 1955.
No 1, No. 2 (2 issues), No. 3, No. 4. one. Also reprint of these 4 issues ir{f); in different format.
2) Announcement of conlnuation by Wayne State University Press.
3) Walt Whitman Newsletter, Wayne State University Pres£.
a) Volume II, No. 1-2, No. 3, No. 4.
b) Volume III. No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4.
c) Volume IV. No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4.
d) Volume V. Change of title to Walt Whitman Review.
No. 1, No. 2 (4 copies containing review by Rollo G. Silver
of DRUM-TAPES IN FACSIMILE, page 35}
e) Volume VI, no. 1, no. 2
f) Volume XII, no. 4.
T) The Long Islander. Reprints.
1) June 2, 1955. '"Leaves of Grass' Centennial and Whitman's
Birth Date Observed".
2) Annual WW Page.
a) July 2, 1959. "Long-Islander Inaugurates Annual Walt Whitman
Page". 2 copies of page 1, section 3, Edited by Charles E.
Feinberg and William White.
b) May 26, 1960. Edited by Nathan Resnick.
c) May 25, 1961.
d) May 24, 1962, Edited by Edwin H. Miller, inscribed to Rollo
Silver,
e) May 30, 1963. Edited by Rollo G. Silver, 4 copies,
f) June 3, 1965, Edited by Nathan Resnick. page 26
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U) Walt Whitman Society of America
1) Membership solicitation. Mimeograph card.
2) Bulletin, No, 3U, July 1943.
3) Bulletin, No, 38, June 1944.
4) Mimeograph letter, 1944.
5) News clip "Mark Whitman Birthday Here and in France", 1952, by re: sponsorship of birthday celebrations Walt Whitman Society.
6) Walt Whitman Society, Boston. Brochure listing objects, officers.
no date,
V) Walt Whitman Birthplace
1) "Whitman's Birthplace". News clip of editorial in The Evening
Bulletin, Providence. April 9, 1936,
2) Walt Whitman Birthplace Association,
a) Walt Whitman Birthplace Committee, Mimeograph letter to
sponsors.
b) Card for membership in Association.
c) Letterhead of Association.
d) Brochure- "A Plan to Purchase and Preserve Walt Whitman's
Birthplace", no date.
e) Rogers, Cleveland (President of Association). TLS to
Rollo G. Silver, September 18, 1950,
f) "Ask $10,000 for Whitman Shrine". Newsday, September 14, 1951
re: attempt of Birthplace Association to raise money.
g) Walt Whitman Birthplace Bulletin, Vol. I, no. 2, January 1958.
h) "An Historic Tour of West Hills", May 17, 1969. Sponsored
by Birthplace Assocation.
i) Program of "Sesquicentennial Anniversary celebrating Walt
Whitman's Birthday", May 31, 1969, under auspices of Association. page 27 ROLLO SILVER Gift of June 1969
j) Invitation "A Tribute to Whitman" sponsored by Walt Whitman
Birthplace Association, May 31, 1969. 2 copies.
k) Walt Whitman Festival- 150th Birthday Celebration,
May 1-31, 1969. Sponsored by Whitman Birthplace Assocation,
3 copies.
W) Walt Whitman's House on Mickle Street in Camden, New Jersey.
Printed letter from Horace L. Traubel soliciting funds to purchase
house, October 1, 1892. Folded leaf with drawing of house on front.
X) Walt Whitman Fellowship
1) Announcement of the first meeting of thePhiladelphia Branch of
the Walt Whitman Fellowship, November 29, 1895.
2) "The Walt Whitman Re-Union". Card from Horace L. Traubel,
Secretary, March 11, 1895.
3) Walt Whitman Fellowship Papers.
a) 11 8". Philadelphia, October 1894. "The Objects of the
Fellowship".
b) Second Year: 2. Philadelphia, November 1895. "The Fellowship
of Whitman" by John Herbert Clifford, signed~,
c) Second Year: 7. Philadelphia, November 1895. "Whitman and the
Future" by Thomas B. Harned.
d) Second Year: 8, Philadelphia, November 1895. "The Whitman
Propaganda Is Whitman" by John Herbert Clifford. 2 copies.
4) White, William. "The Walt Whitman Fellowship: An Account of Its
Organization and a Checklist of Its Papers". Separate from the
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of American, Volume 51,
First Quarter, 1957. 2 copies.
5) Program of meeting of Walt Whitman Fellowship, Boston Branch.
1904-1905. page 28
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Y) Programs of events at which Whitman honored or his poems used.
1) The Community Church of New York, May 30, 1926. Includes notice
of Walt Whitman Festival.
2) "Walt Whitman's School house". Jericho Turnpike, Syosset, Long
Island. Announcement of opening, May 1927.
3) Walt Whitman Memorial Unveiling of Tablet by the Authors Club,
May 31, 1931. 2 copies.
4) "A Walt Whitman Recital on the Centennial of the PUblication of
Leaves of Grass." New York University, May 5, 1955.
5) Friends of the Library, University of Detroit. "Charles E.
Feinberg will speak on Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman".
JUly 12, 1959. Program reproduced announcement of Walt Whitman's
lecture on Abraham Lincoln in 1886.
6) "In Memoriam John Fitzgerald Kennedy". When Lilacs Last in the
Dooryard Bloom'd. Poem by Walt Whitman. Music by Paul Hindemith.
Bryn Mawr, November 22, 1964.
7) "A Whitman Festival", May 21-23, 1965. Nassau Community College.
Department of English.
8) "A Whitman Portrait". A dramatic narrative adapted by Paul Shyre.
Nassau Community College, 1965.
9) "Whitman 150". Performing Arts Foundation of HuntingtonTownship.
11 ,,, a collage of his prose, his poetry and his time." 1969.
10) The Grolier Club,
a) "Walt Whitman 1819-1892". The Grolier Club, March 22, 1955.
Announcement of meeting with Whitman exhibit and address on
him by Dr. Gay Wilson Allen.
b) "Walt Whitman 1819;;.1892". The Grolier Club, April 19, 1955. page 29
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Announcement of meeting with address by Malcolm Cowley on
Whitman. Cover reproduces cartoon of Whitman by Frank Belleu, e c) "A keepsake to c;:t.ebrate the small exhibition of Walt Whitman
materials from the collection of Mr. Charles E. Feinberg held
at the Grolier Club, February 5-March 30, 1964. Inside facsimile
of first draft manuscript of "O' Captain! My Captain!".
11) The Franklin Inn Club Medal of Walt Whitman. Ad for purchase, no date.
Z) Whitman quotations on greeting cards.
1) 5 Christmas cards from Charles E. Feinberg reproducing cards sent
by Whitman.
2) 2 Christmas cards from Edna and John Davenport, 1960 and 1962.
3) Christmas card from "The Petersons", 1938.
AA) Walt Whitman Hall of Fame Bust
1) "The Eagle to REceive Whitman Bust Funds". Reprint from
Brooklyn Eagle, March 19, 1931.
2) Program,"Unveiling of Busts", May 8, 1930. 2 copies.
Box 7 BB) Book and Manuscript Catalogs of Whitman Sales.
1) Catalogues.
a) Anderson Auction Company. Library of Louis J. Haber. In
3 parts, No. 787, 789, 790. 1909.
b) American Art Association. Collection of the late William F.
Gable. Part I. November 5 & 6, 1923.
c) American Art Association Anderson Galleries, Inc.
Sale Number 3911, Including Whitman items. 1931.
d) American Art Aseocation. Anderson Galleries, Sale No. 3966.
The Library of Frank Irving Fletcher, Part I. First
Editions of Famous Authors, Including WW. 1932. page 30
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e) American Autograph Shop. Catalog offering WW Portrait.
List No. 18. May 1933.
f) The Book Hunter. Catalog offering O'Connor letters about
Whitman. May 1934.
g) Sotheby & Company. Catalog of Important Letters, Manuscripts,
and Books by or relating to Walt Whitman. The Property of his
Intimate Friend, Biographer and Literary Executor, The late
Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke. 2 copies. One Illustrated. 1935.
,h) Alfred F. Goldsmith catalog offering WW items. 1935.
i) Rains Galleries. Catalog. Including a remarkable collection
of letters and manuscripts by WW together with his will,
dated May 15, 1873. 1936.
i) American Art Associati~n. Anderson Galleries, Inc. 2 copies.
Manuscripts, Autograph letters, First Editions and Portraits
of Walt Whitman. Formerly the property of the late Dr. Richard
Maurice Bucke; and news item "Notes on Rare Books" by
Philip Brooks about sale from The New York Times Book Review,
April 12, 1936. 1936.
j) The Month at Goodspeeds. February 1937. Tearsheet illustrating
WW' s "O Captain! My Captain!". Printed with holograph corrections,
k) American Clipper. American Autograph Shop. Tearsheet of
rear cover listing Whitman manuscript. April 1940,
1) Swann Auction Galleries. American First Editions of the 19th
Century. Sale No, 70, Including Whitman. 1944. m) Swann Auction Galleries. Books and Autographs. The collection
of the late Alfred F, Goldsmith, Sale no. 190. November 6 and 7, 1947 page 31
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n) Carnegie Book Shop. Catalogue 146. Tearsheets listing Whitman
letter. 1949.
o) The Flying Quill (Goodspeed's).Listing WW letter. January-February 1949
p) Maggs Bros, Ltd, London, 1949. Catalog page offering autograph manuscript
of page of essay on Emerson.
q) Carnegie Book Shop. Catalogue 155. Offering Whitman letter.
1950.
r)Seven Gables Bookshop. WW Sale Catalog, 1960.
s) Seven Gables Bookshop. WW Catalog, no date.
t) WW items offered for sale by W.F.Kelleher, no date.
u) Brerttano's Bookstores (Chicago). List No. 213. Listing Whitman
first edition and assocation copies.
v) Barnet J, Beyer cataaog offering WW's will and manuscripts.
w)Samuel T. Freeman & Company. William F. Gable Collection, Part I. May 3, no year,offering Whitman items. A,µ'-"'-""-!JIUUll.4"'-JtlLllLll,4-D'""'-ll-nAA--~ifiliirnIXUKm~mrnoooa:IDOObr x) Swann Auction Galeries. Sale no. 462. INcluding "Whitmaniana".
Collected by J,H, and Bertha Johnston.
2) News Items re: Sales.
a) "$2,100 for 'Leaves of Grass"'• Note from Art Digest,
January 15, 1930.
b) "Sale of 'Leaves of Grass"'. NEW YORK TRIBUNE BOOKS, November 2, 1930.
3) Catalogs of Sales.
a) The AUtogtaph Album, Vol. 1, no. 2, December 1933. Featuring
photograph of WW signed on cover.
b) Catalog. Unidentified. Tearsheets listing Whitman books and
manuscr;ripts for sale, 2 pp.
c) American Clipper (Amerericaa Autograph Shop) June 1935. Listing
Whitman letter. page 32
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4) Tearsheets from sale catalogs illustrating:
a) LEAVES OF GRASS copy belonging to Horace L. Traubel with
his holograph notes.
b) LEAVES OF GRASS second binding and third edition in original
wrappers.
Box 8 CC) Material about Whitman collections and exhibits.
1) Sprague Collection (University of Pennsylvania).
a) Library of Congress. A List of Manuscripts, Books, Portraits,
Prints, Broadsides and Memorabilia in commemoration of the
One Hundred and Twentieth Anniversary of the Birth of Walt
Whitman. From the Whitman Collection of Mrs. Frank Julian
Sprague of New York City. Exhibited at the Library of Congress,
1939. Exhibit catalog. 2 copies.
b) The Walt Whitman Collection of Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague
Exhibited in the University Museum, 1942. University of
Pennsylvania Library, Exhibit catalog.
c) "Argument About a Poet She'd Never REad Made Mrs. Sprague
a Whitman Collector". Newspaper clip from New York World Telegram,
October 1, 1938.
d) Facsimile of letter from Whitman, November 3, 1871 in the
Sprague Collection, University of Pennsylvania Library.
2) Trent Collection (Duke University) a) Newsclip re: presentation of collection. No source, no date. b) The Trent Collection in the Rare Book Room of the Duke
University Library, Durham, North Carolina. Duke University
Brochure, 3 copies.
c.) L:tbrary'Notes of Friends of Duke University Library, no. 14,
April 1945. Contains "Mr,. Frost Visits the Library" which page 33
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includes Frost's comments on Whitman. Photograph of Frost
before Whitman portrait, and Frost broadside "A Mood Apart" and
program of Frost speech at time of visit to Duke, March 14, 1945.
d) Walt Whitman A Checklist of An Exhibition of Manuscripts and
Books from the Trent Collection. Displayed by Duke University
Library in April 1955. The Friends of Duke University Library,
2 copies.
e) Program and menu for meeting of Friends of Duke University
Library, with lecture by Malcolm Cowley "Walt Whitman as
Poet", 1955.
3) Brown University.
a) "Brown Acquires Whitman Books". News clip from Evening
Bulletin, Providence, December 9, 1931 by Garret D. Byrnes.
2 copies,
b) Invitation to opening exhibit of Walt Whitman Collection
presented by Webster Knight to the Harris Collection of
American poetry, May 11, 1932, 2 copies.
c) INvitation to Exhibit of LEAVES OF GRASS from Harris Collection
and speech by CHarles Feinberg, May 2, 1960. Invitation
reproduces manuscript of Whitman's review, "Five• thousand
Poems", for The'Ctitic, April 1887.
4) University of Pennsylvania Library.
Brochure announcing exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary
of the publication of Walt Whitman's LEAVES OF GRASS. May-June 1955.
~ Hier·collection. (Syracuse)
"The:Hier Whitman Collection" in Syracuse University Library
Associates, Courier no 6 J ---' • , anuary 1960, page 34
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6) Rollins College.
a) "Walt Whitman Editions Given to Rollins College". News clip.
No source, no date,
b) Centennial Exhibition of thepublication of.,. Leaves of
Grass". 1955. Includes Feinberg items.
7) Long Island University, Brooklyn.
"L. I. University Begins Whitman Collection". News clip.
8) Feinberg Collection
a) "Demands Ransom for Whitman Diary". News clip re: theft
of Whitman diary from Feinberg Collection, then on loan to
Detroit Public Library, no date,
b) The Friends of the Detroit Public Library Invite You ...
Opening of an Exhibition Centennial of Walt Whitman's
LEAVES OF GRASS with an address by Charles E. Feinberg,
February 9, 1955. Exhibit of Feinberg Whitman Collection.
c) "Hub Library Displays Whitman Collection". News clip,
Newsday, March 4, 1955. Material from Feinberg Collection
d) Invitation to exhibit at Library of Congress. "Walt Whitman
(1819-1969) The Man and the Poet ... from the Charles E,
Feinberg collection", May 1969. Includes reproduction of
manuscript page of first edition of LEAVES OF GRASS.
e) Brochure of facsimile of original Emerson letter to Whitman,
July 21, 1855, from the Feinberg Collection, printed to
Commemorate the Sesquecentennial of Whitman birth, 1969.
9) Oscar Lion Collection. (New York Public Library)
a) "Beribboned Whitmaniac" by Murray Hartman in New York Times
Magazine, News clip. March 6, 1955, page 35
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b) "The Untimeliness1' of the Walt Whitman Exhibition at the New
II York Public Library. An Open Letter to the Trustees
by Charles F. Heartmen. Xerox copy from copy in Williams
College Library, October 23, 1964.
10) Boston Public Library.
"Leaves of Grass First Editions and Manuscripts in the Whitman
Collection" by Honor Mccusker In More Books, The Bulletin of
the Boston Public Library, May 1938. Page 179.
11) The Adrian van Sinderert Collectie:n (Yale)
"The Adrian van Sinderen Collection of Walt Whitman" by
Stanley T. Williams in The Yale University Library Gazette,
Vol. 15, no. 3, January 1931.
12) University of Texas.
An Exhibition on the occasion of the opening of the
T.E.Hanley Library, The Research Center, the University of
Texas, NOvember 17, 1958. Page 4 and 5 of exhibit catalog
devoted to Whitman.
13) Rumania.
Exhibit catalog: Expozitia Walt Whitman Institutul Ramin pentru
Relatiile Culturale cu Strainatatea. Bucuresti, Noiembrie, 1956.
DD) Memorabilia Walt Whitman Hotel, Camden, New Jersey.
1) Towel.
2) Place mats (2)
3) Stationery: Letterhead and envelope.
EE) Rollo Silver Exhibit
1) Announcement of Rollo Silver Walt Whitman Exhibit in Special
Collection in The News, Boston University, Vol. 2, no. 25,
April 9, 1970. Page 2. page 36 ROLLO SILVER Gift of June 1969
2) Poster for above exhibit. (Separately packaged).
Box 9 FF) Correspondence related~ Whitman
1) Berenson Correspondence
Berenson, Bernard. ALS (postcard) to RGS, Florence,
July 31, 1935.
Berenson, Mary Whitall Smith. Letter signed in another's
holograph with holograph envelope to RGS, April 12, 1935.
Berenson, Mary Whitall Smith. Letter signed in another's
holograph, June 17, 1935, transmitting typed copies
of 52 Whitman letters to her, 1884-1890, which are
included. Copy of photograph of Mrs. Berenson laid in.
Berenson, Mary Whitall Smith. TLS to RGS, Florence, June 17, 1935.
2) Material related to Whitman dealer Alfred Goldsmith.
a) Letters: Goldsmith, Alfred F. 69 ALS to RGS, April 21, 1933-
August 15, 1947.
b) Walt Whitman booklist offered by AFG, no date.
c) "F±rst Editions and Desirable Books". Booklist, no. 73, 1935.
Includes Whitman books.
d) Booklist. Mimeograph, January 13, 1936. 2 pp. Includes Whitman
books,
e) "Rare Whitman Book Brings $500". Re: sale of MEMORANDA DURING
THE WAR to AFG.News clip, no date,
f) 4 postcards with photographs of AFG in his bookship. One with his
wife,
g) Photograph of AFG's wife in shop,
h) Postcard with Whitman quote, Advertisement for AFG, page 37
ROLLO SILVER Gift of Jnne 1969
i) "A Friend of Walt (Alfred Goldsmith)". New story by Nelson Frank.,
New York-World Telegram, November 24, 1944. 2 copies.
j) "Bookshop Extraordinary" by Burton Benjamin. Article about AFG,
no source, 1947.
k) "A.F.Goldsmith, 66, Book Dealer, Dies". New York Times,
July30, 1947.
1) "Alfred F. Goldsmith: An Appreciation" by John T. Winterich.
Publisher's Weekly, November 22, 1947.
m) Cards (Season's Greetings).
1. Silhouette of WW with printed quotation from Crossing Brooklyn
Ferry. No. 5 of 50 copies.
2. Reproduction of "Men of the Day (66)" from The Fifth Avenue
Journal, 1872. No. 11 of 100 copies.
3) Letters to Rollo G. Silver about Whitman research (unless otherwise
noted).
a) Adler, Elmer (The Colophon). 4 TLS, July 2, 8, 16, 18, 1935.
b) Alexander, Colin C. TLS, October 4, 1937.
c) Allen, Gay Wilson. 7 TLS, February 8, 15, April 5, 1944;
February 28 (Postcard), April 26, June 8, 1946; April 14, 1947.
d) American Academy of Arts and Letters (Mrs. William Vanamee).
TLS, October 23, 1935.
e) American Medical Association. 2 TLS. May 4 (Including biography
of Dr. W~lliam Beverley Drinkard, Typescript, 2 pp.) and
June 19, 1945,
f) Army Medical Library. TLS. June 6, 1945 and typescript, 1 p. re:
Dr. William Beverley Drinkard.
g) Baker, Portia, 2 ALS. December 17, 1935 and January 22, 1936. page 38 ROLLO SILVER Gift of June 1969
h) Basler, Roy P. TLS, June 25, 1954, 2 PP· i) Bazal/gette, Llon.3 ALS to Lewis N. Chase; March 28 (with holograph
envelope), April 2, July 16, 1913.
1 ALS to "Dear Sir", September 4, 1905.
j) Beaver, Joseph. ALS, February 25, 1950.
k) Blasdale, Helen R. TLS, October 15, 1945.
1) Bullett, Gerald. TLS, September 23, 1946.
m) Cox, H. Morris. TLS, March 11, 3 pp. and March 31, 3 pp. 1939.
n) Davenport, John L. ALS, June 28, 1955; TLS, March 17, 1963.
o) Davis, Martha (Curator, Walt Whitman House, Camden, New Jersey).
3 ALS. March 4, 17, 1936 and April 11, 1936 with 1 page holograph
list of Committee of Walt Whitman Foundation.
p) Drake, James F. 2 TLS, April 20, 1935 and August 5, 1947 listing and postcard MXNXM*~ Whitman item.
q)e,Eldridge,r Charles W.::, 17 items relating to his death, April
July 1947.
r) Fein~erg, Charles E. 2 TLS, June 22, 1957 and January 31, 1969.
s) Finkel, William L. 4 TLS. May 6, 1950; February 7 and 21,
June 20, 1951.
t) Frenz, Horst. TLS, August 21, 1948.
u) Frey, Ellen. TLS, April 14, 1945.
v) Furness, Clifton Joseph. ALS, November 18, 1943. w) Gould, Elizabeth Porter. ALS to Mr. Bacon, August 22, 1899.
Holograph manuscript, 1 p. , included. x) Holloway, Emory. 2 TLS, Novembeti 18 and Decmeber 18, 1939,
y) Houghton, Carolyn Wells. TLS, January 6, 1940. Catalogued as Wells, Carolyn Houghton, 187? - 1942. page 39
ROLLO SILVER Gift of June 1969
z) Hubach, Robert R. 2 ALS, April 19, 1947 and February 5, 1948. aa) Humeston, Edward J. CTLS, September 2, 1947. ab) Johnston, Bertha. 5 TLS. August 20, October 27, 1935;
February 17, 25, April 13, 1937 and 1 page holograph note
about John Henry Johnston (her father) in Rollo
Silver's holograph. ac) Jonah, David A. (Friends of the Library of Brown University).
TLS, April 25, 1960. ad) Jones, Fred R. (Publisher). TLS, August 2, 1939. ae) Leslie, Robert L. ANS, May 4, 1966. af) Livezey, Herman (Treasurer, Walt Whitman Foundation).
ALS (Postcard), December 19, 1935. TLS, April 1, 1936.
Printed ad for his book of poetry "Sleet", 1927. ag) Lockhart, Adelaide (Dartmouth). ANS, no date. ah) Mary Eleanor (Sister).S,H.C.J. TLS, September 4, 1946. ai) Molinoff, Katherine. TLS, June 15, 1939. aj) Moore, John G. TLS to RGS and Clarence Gohdes, July 5, 1949, 2 pp. ak) Naumberg, Edward. TLS, May 12, 1948. al) New York Historical Society. TL, June 2, 1932. am) Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. TLS, November 18, 1939. an) Perry, Bliss. 12 ALS: July 23, 1933; January 11, May 23, June 13,
September 19, October 1, 16, November 11, December 19, 1935;
February 8, December 3, 1936; December 23, 1944. Undated
Christmas card with holograph message signed and postcard
signed by Arthur B. Perry. ao) Rubin, Joseph Jay. 4 TLS. September 25, 1939; September 23 (postcard),
May 1, 1946; March 13, 1948. page 40
ROLLO SILVER Gift of June 1969 ap) Seaborn, E. TLS, December 23, 1946. aq) Stewart, Mrs. J.W. ALS, January 22, 1947. Laid in is carbon
typescript of "Concordance-Making in New Zealand" by
A.E.Trimble, 1904. 7 pages with copy of covering letter from
Atlantic Monthly. ar) Thompson, C. Seymour (Librarian, University of Pennsylvania).
2 TLS, August 20 and September 3, 1942. as) Traubel, Horace. ALS to Bliss Perry, January 12, 1905.
TL (copy) to Bliss Perry, February 10, 1907 and 1 page holograph
with note "Traubel's script?Errors in Bliss Perry's Walt
Whitman 11 at) Trent, Mary (Mrs. Josiah C). ALS to Mr. and Mrs. Rollo G.
Silver, July 26, 1949. au) Van Hoesen, H.B.(Librarian, Brown University). TLS, May 16, 1932. av) von Nieda, Fred'k (Mayor of Camden, New Jersey). TLS, March 4, 1936. aw) Villard, Oswald Garrison. TLS, July 16, 1947. ax) Walt Whitman Association. TLS, October 25, 1963 and membership
card for RGS. ay) Walt Whitman Birthplace Association. TLS, October 17, 1956. az) Walt Whitman Society of America'fi, 3 TLS and TL. July 5, 1939;
May 6, 1944; May 8, 1945; August 20, 1952; and 2 cards. ba) ~:fi~~r5arY;i}hie T~et1sNotl~Rtof1; tiiblyn Wells bb) Woodress, James. TLS, December 7, 1951. be) "Jack". TLS, July 28, 1954. Laid in is copy of letter from
"Jack" to Edwin H. Miller. bd) Envelope, no date, addressed to RGS from Walt Whitman House,
Camden, New Jersey, page 41
ROLLO SILVER Gift of June 1969
Box 10 GG) Rollo G. Silver Manuscripts Relating tE_ Walt Whitman in chronologica+
order.
1) A CHILD'S REMINISCENCE by Walt Whitman. Collected by Thomas 0.
Mabbott and Rollo G, Silver, 1930.
a) Notes in holograph, 20 pp.
b) Holograph manuscript, 15 pp.
c) Advertisement, University of Washington Book Store, 1930.
~roadside noting publication).
d) Editorial and research correspondence. 13 items, 1929-1930.
Includes: Wagenknecht, Edward. TLS, November 14, 1929.
e) Reviews of the book. 7 items.
2) "A .Whitman Interview", Published as "Mr~, Whitman reconsiders"
by Thomas Ollive Mabbott and RGS in The Colophon. Labelled
St. Louis Interview by RGS, Part IX, 1932.
a) Typescript with holograph corrections, 11 pp.
b) Correspondence with The Colophon and research materials. 1931.
16 items.
3) "Whitman and Dickens". Published in American Literature, Vol. V, 1933.
a) Holograph, 1 p.
b) Carbon typescript, 2 copies, each 2 leaves.
c) Notes, Holograph, 2 pp. ( 1 on envelope).
d) Correspondence with editors. 2 items. 1933. INcluding:
Gohdes, Clarence (American Literature). TLS, November 15, 1933.
4) "Seven Letters of Walt Whitman" Published in American Literature,
Vol. VII, no. 1, March 1935,
a) Holograph manuscript, 13 pp.
b) Typescript with holograph corrections, 6 pp. (4 pp, missing).
c) Correspondence. 1934-1935, 3 items. page 42
ROLLO SILVER Gift of June 1969
5) "Oscar Makes a Call". Published in The Colophon, Part 20, 1935.
a) Correspondence with the editors. 4 items, 1934-1935.
Adler, Elmer. 4 TLS. December 4, 7, 11, 1934; January 2, 1935.
b) Research items. 2 Printed pieces!• "Colophon Honorariums for
Volume V", 2 copies; and Photostat of newspaper article
"Wilde and Whitman", January 19, 1882,
6) "The First French Translation of Walt Whitman".
a) Carbon typescript, 4 pp.
b) 2 Postal cards (ALS) from L. Carzamian to RGS, January 14, 1935
and November 9, 1936.
c) Photostatic copy of The New York Saturday Press,
November 17, 1860 laid in.
7) "Whitman and Poet". Published as "A Note About Whitman's Essay
on Poe" in American Literature, Vol. VI, no. 4, 1935.
a) Notes in holograph, 1 p.
b) Carbon typescript, 2 pp,
c) Correspondence. 3 items. Including:
Gohdes, Clarence, ALS, September 1, 193~; TLS, November 9, 193r. O"'o.n1e5 HouJCled Whitty, p. (Editor of THE COMPLETE POEMS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE),, (s 19 net ;:r: ~L Wl11H1) TLS, April 26, 1935.
8) "For the Bright Particular Star" Re: WW and Mary Whitall Smith.
Published in The Colophon, New Series, Vol. II, no. 2, Winter 1937.
Carbon typescript, 24 pp.
9) "Whitman's Earliest Signed Prose: A Correction". Published in
American Literature, Vol. IX, No, 4, January 1938.
a) Holograph manuscript, 3 different copies, 1 p, each.
b) Carbon typescript, 1 p, page 43
ROLLO SILVER Gift of June 1969
c) Correspondence with editor. 2 items.
Silver, Rollo and Alice. ALS to Clarence Gohdes with his
reply on same sheet.
10) "Whitman Interviews Himself". Published in American Literature,
Vol. X, No. 1, March 1938. Labelled "Denver Interview#" by RGS.
a) Holograph draft, 3 pp.
b) Typescript with holograph corrections, 6 pp.
c) Typescript with holograph corrections, 12 pp.
d) Carbon typescript, 6 pp.
e) Discarded page. Typescript with holograph corrections.
f) Editorial and research correspondence. 35 items. 1937-1938.
g) Research materials. 3 printed items.
\?hotostat of Whitman manuscript "Walt Whitman in Denver", 4 pp.
Typescript, 3 pp.
11) "Review of three pamphlets by Katherine Molinoff: AN UNPUBLISHED
WHITMAN MANUSCRIPT; SOME NOTES ON WHITMAN'S FAMILY; WHITMAN'S
TEACHING AT SMITHTOWN". Published in American Literature,
Vol. XIV, No. 4, January 1943.
a) Typescript with holograph corrections, 1 p. (Incomplete
Manuscript).
b) Carbon typescript, 2pp.
c) Silver, Rollo & Alice. TLS to Clarence Gohdes, March 28, 1942
with ANS from CG,
12) "Whitman in 1850: Three Uncollected Articles". Published in
American Literature, Vol. XXIX, No. 4, January 1948,
Labelled "Literary Research" by RGS,
a) Notes in holograph, 8 pp, page 44
ROLLO SILVER Gift of Jnne 1969
b) Holograph manuscript, 4 pp.
c) Carbon typescript, 30 pp.
d) Research articles. 10 items.
e) Research and editorial correspondence. 15 items. 1946-1947.
13) "WW's Western Trip 1879". No date.
a) Notes in holograph, 3 pp.
b) Research papers. 8 items.
HH) Printed Articles About Whitman E.Y_ Rollo s_ Silver in Chronological
order.
1) "A Note About Whitman's Essay on Poe". Reprint fv0m American
Literature, Vol. 6, No. 4, January 1935. 2 copies, 1 signed by
author.
2) "Seven Letters of Walt Whitman". Reprint form Ame:ticari Literature,
Vol. 7, No. 1, March 1935. a, t!opies, I /1J.scr16.t>L~ 11:iu-/J1or t h,s mo1~
3) "Whitman Interviews Himself". Reprint from American Literature,
Vol. 10, no. 1, March 1938.
,j 4) "Walt Whitman's 'Tis But Ten Years Since'" by Thomas O. Mabbott
and Rollo G. Silver. American Literature, Vol. 15, no. 1, March 1943.
5) "Fragmentary Outline of a War: Whitman's Notes on the
'Rebellion Record'" in American Notes arid Queries, Vol. 4,
no. 3, June 1944. 2 copies.
6) "Whitman in 1850: Three Uncollected Articles". Reprint from
American Literature, Vol. 19, No. 4, January 1948. 3 copies.
7) "Walt Whitman by Frederik Schyberg Reviewed by Rollo G. Silver"
Reprint from Modern Language Notes, Vol. LXVII, No. 4, April 1952
3 copies. page 45
ROLLO SILVER Gift of June 1969
8) Walt Whitman page in The Long-Islander. Edited by Rollo G.
Silver, May 30, 1963.
9) Review by Rollo Silver of WALT WHITMAN LOOKS AT THE SCHOOLS
by Florence Bernstein Freedman. Reprint from American
Literature, Vol. XXIII, No. 4, January 1952. 6 copies.
10) Review by Rollo G. Silver of WALT WHITMAN'S DRUM TAPS.
Tearsheets.
II) General Items related to Rollo Silver's research.
1) Notes. Holograph on 3X5 cards with references to Whitman.
Dated 1929-1933. 17 cards
2) "Collectors Unearth Early Whitman Prose". News clip, no date.
3) Letter to editor of Books re: biography of William E. Channing
that RGS was working on July 16, 1933.
SILVER, Alice and Rollo G. Collection
Box 10
Folder: Nonesuch Press (Items removed from the Nonesuch Century in Silver Y.)
A. Letters
Bennett, Paul A., CTL to William A. Bayless, Rockefeller Univ.
Press, Nov. 19, 1966.
Macy, Helen (Kaplan) (Mrs. George Macy), TLS to Paul A. Bennett,
Mar. 24, 1948.
Meynell, Sir Francis, ALS to Paul A. Bennett, June 15, 1961.
B. Printed Items
1. Book Jacket' of Nonesuch Century.
2. Copy of title page of "Memorable Poetry: Chosen from All
Periods by Sir Francis Meynell". London: The Nonesuch Press.
3. Meynell, Sir Francis -
a) "The Design of Books: Function and Fashion". Tearsheets
from THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY REVIEW, May-June 1966.
b) "Problems of Better Typographic Design": Sir Francis
Meynell's Address to the B,F.M.P. Tearsheets from THE
NEWSPAPER WORLD, June 28, 1945.
c) Invitation to reception for Sir Francis Meynell, Mar. 15,
1966 at Rockefeller University.
d) Franklin Watts advertising leaflet, "Sir Francis Meynell
and the Nonesuch Cygnets".
e) "A Nonesuch Garland". Exhibit brochure for a selection of
Nonesuch Press Books. Rockefeller University, March 1966. Silver, Alive and Rollo G. page 2
4. Obituary notice for McKnight Kauffer, Nonesuch Press illustrator.
NEW YORK TIMES, Oct. 23, 1954. Newspaper clip. SILVER, ROLLO COLLECTION
September 1975
~ Whitman Material
Box 1 C) Whitman related items.
McKay David (publisher) ALS to Mess. G. P. Putnams Sons, New York,
January 8, 1897 re wiBh of Whitmans 1 s literary executors for
cheap edition of Leaves of Grass to remain in its present shape. SILVER, ROLLO G. #457 Oct. 1999
**This material was transferred from the Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection
Box 10
I. Manuscripts A. Draft of Walt Whitman lecture: "[Major General] Hancock and the Scout." In ink with extensive pencil corrections, 3p., July 1865. With a description and transcript
II. Correspondence A. Facsimile of an ALS to Helen Price from Walt Whitman, April 21, 1881 [original in WilliamE. Barton collection] B. Facsimile of an ALS to "Dear Sir" from Walt Whitman, March 9, 1868 [original in William E. Barton collection]
III. Printed Matter A. Printed cards 1. Photograph of Walt Whitman 2. Etching of Walt Whitman 3. Photograph of a bust of Walt Whitman B. Advertisement for 1888-1889 edition of Walt Whitman's COMPLETE POEMS AND PROSE. With description, 1p. C. Unused envelope with Whitman's name printed on it, 1890 D. Admission ticket to Robert G. Ingersoll's lecture on Whitman: "Liberty and Literature and Poetry of the Future." Given in Philadelphia, Oct. 21, 1890
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