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Camden's compliment to Walt Whitman, May 31, 1889 : notes, addresses, letters, telegrams / edited by Horace Traubel.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Traubel, Horace, 1858-1919, editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Appreciation.
- Whitman, Walt.
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
- Art appreciation.
- Local Subjects:
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
- Genre:
- Printed books -- 19th century -- United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Specimens.
- Advertisements -- New Jersey -- Camden -- 19th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Ingersoll, Robert Green, 1833-1899 (inscription) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Traubel, Horace, 1858-1919 (inscription) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Jastrow, Morris, Jr., 1861-1921 (donor) (Whitman Collection copy 2)
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 (inscription) (Whitman Collection copy 3)
- Gilchrist, Grace, 1859?-1947 (inscription) (Whitman Collection copy 3)
- Sprague, Harriet Chapman Jones, 1876-1969 (former owner) (Whitman Collection copy 3)
- Physical Description:
- 74 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 1 portrait ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : David McKay, 1889.
- Contents:
- Autobiographic note / Walt Whitman
- Response / Walt Whitman
- To Walt Whitman (poem) / Ernest Rhys
- "Recorders ages hence" / Horace L. Traubel
- Addresses
- Letters: over sea
- over land
- By wire : then, postscript.
- Notes:
- "1000 copies printed, with Whitman receiving one of the first on 28 October 1889"--Myerson.
- "Autobiographic note," signed W. W.: page 4.
- Whitman's advertisement for his books: Page 74.
- "Autobiographic note" signed W.W.: page 4.
- Local Notes:
- Whitman Collection copy has dated 19th-century manuscript inscription ("Robert G. Ingersoll from the editor Nov. 13. '89") on front free endpaper.
- Whitman Collection copy 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 1904 by Morris Jastrow, Jr.
- Whitman Collection copy 3 inscribed by Whitman to Grace Gilchrist: "Grace Gilchrist for Xmas with best remembrances & affectionate regards of Walt Whitman."
- Whitman Collection copy 3 purchased by the Penn Libraries in 1944 from Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague.
- Cited in:
- Myerson, J., Walt Whitman, D 17, page 503
- BAL 21436
- Other Format:
- Online version: Camden's compliments to Walt Whitman, May 31, 1889.
- OCLC:
- 3463065
- Publisher Number:
- ocm03463065
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