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Walt Whitman's visit to the Shakers. / by Emory Holloway; with Whitman's notebook containing his description & observations of the Shaker group at Mt. Lebanon.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating Z1007 .C71
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection 811W YHo.2 Whitman copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holloway, Emory, 1885-1977.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
- Whitman, Walt.
- Shakers.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sprague, Harriet Chapman Jones, 1876-1969 (former owner) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 12 unnumbered pages : facsimile ; 27 cm
- Contained In:
- Colophon (New York, N.Y.) first issue (Spring 1930) part thirteen
- Notes:
- Analyzed from the Colophon : a book collector's quarterly, first issue, Spring 1930, part thirteen.
- Printed for the Colophon, February 1933.
- The reproduction of this notebook has been made with the kind permission of Mr. W.T.H. Howe.
- Includes "Whitman's notes on a visit to the Shaker community." There is a close affinity between the Shakers and the Quakers. Whitman's mother and grandmother were Quakers, and Whitman frequently used Quaker phrases in his writings.
- Local Notes:
- Whitman Collection copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 1944 from Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague.
- OCLC:
- 29088363
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