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Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890-1891 / by two Lancashire friends, J. Johnston, M.D., and J.W. Wallace ; with twenty illustrations.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection 811W YJ.2 Whitman copy
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PS3232 .J6 1918 Whitman copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnston, John, 1852-1927, author.
- Wallace, J. W. (James William), 1853-1926, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Last years.
- Whitman, Walt.
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Friends and associates.
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
- Poets, American--19th century--Biography.
- Poets, American.
- Friends and associates.
- Last years of a person's life.
- Friendship.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Publishers' advertisements.
- Penn Provenance:
- Feinberg, Charles E., 1899-1988 (donor) (Whitman Collection copy (PS3232 .J6 1918 Whitman copy))
- Stanton, G(?). (autograph) (Whitman Collection copy (PS3232 .J6 1918 Whitman copy))
- Johnston, John, 1852-1927 (autograph) (Whitman Collection copy (PS3232 .J6 1918 Whitman copy))
- Gilchrist, Grace, 1859?-1947 (bookplate) (inscription) (Whitman Collection copy (PS3232 .J6 1918 Whitman copy))
- Physical Description:
- 13 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 18-279 pages, 9 unnumbered pages, 20 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles (1 color) ; 19 cm
- Manufacture:
- Woking ; London : Printed in Great Britain by Unwin Brothers, Limited.
- Place of Publication:
- London : George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. ..., [1918]
- Notes:
- "First published in December 1917 Reprinted February 1918"--Verso of title leaf.
- "Printed in Great Britain by Unwin Brothers, Limited Woking and London"--Page [280].
- Publisher's advertisement: Pages [281]-[288].
- Includes index.
- The present volume consists of Johnston's Visit to Walt Whitman and some of his friends in 1890 (originally published in 1898); copies of letters and post-cards from Walt Whitman to J. Johnston and J.W. Wallace, May 29, 1887, to Feb. 6, 1892; and three chapters by J.W. Wallace: Walt Whitman's friends in Lancashire, Visits to Walt Whitman and his friends in 1891, and Whitman's last illness and final messages.
- Local Notes:
- Whitman Collection copy (PS3232 .J6 1918 Whitman copy) imperfect: pages 141-150 wanting.
- Whitman Collection copy (PS3232 .J6 1918 Whitman copy) presented to the Penn Libraries in 1953 by Charles E. Feinberg.
- Whitman Collection copy (PS3232 .J6 1918 Whitman copy) has on front pastedown dated 20th-century autograph ("G[?] Stanton V. MCMXLVij 9.7.") and armorial bookplate (gules, a bow stringed in bend or, between a bull's head erased in chief and a pheon in base, both argent; motto: Fide et fiducia) of Grace Gilchrist.
- Whitman Collection copy (PS3232 .J6 1918 Whitman copy) signed by John Johnston on half-title leaf.
- Whitman Collection copy (PS3232 .J6 1918 Whitman copy) has laid in typescript letter dated 31 May 1918 from John Johnston (signed in manuscript) to "Mrs Frend" (that is, Grace Gilchrist).
- Cited in:
- Myerson, J., Walt Whitman, D 51, page 517
- BAL 21461
- Other Format:
- Online version: Johnston, John, 1852-1927. Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890-1891.
- OCLC:
- 7945237
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