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The life and letters of John Burroughs / by Clara Barrus ... ; with illustrations ; volume I[-II].
LIBRA PS1226 .B27 1925 v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barrus, Clara, 1864-1931, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Burroughs, John, 1837-1921.
- Burroughs, John.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sprague, Harriet Chapman Jones (former owner) (inscription) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Barrus, Clara, 1864-1931 (autograph) (Whitman Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm
- Manufacture:
- Cambridge : The Riverside Press.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston ... ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company ..., 1925.
- Notes:
- Pagination: v. 1: xvi, [2], 397, [1] pages, [18] leaves of plates ; v. 2: x, [2], 486 pages, [13] leaves of plates.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Whitman Collection copy: v. 1 has manuscript notes in pencil on pages 136-137; manuscript notes in pencil on verso of back free endpaper.
- Whitman Collection copy: v. 2 has paper slip with manuscript notes in pencil laid in.
- Whitman Collection copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 1944 from Mrs. Frank Julian Sprague.
- Whitman Collection copy: v. 1 has dated 20th-century manuscript inscription ("To Harriet Sprague, I'm sure this volume will mean much to you because it traces the early friendship of Whitman & Burroughs. Clara Barrus March 30, 1928") on front free endpaper.
- Whitman Collection copy: v. 2 has manuscript inscription ("To Harriet Sprague, With the love of comrades, C.B.") on front free endpaper.
- Whitman Collection copy: each volume has some leaves unopened at fore-edge.
- Cited in:
- Myerson, J., Walt Whitman, D 63, page 521
- Other Format:
- Online version: Barrus, Clara, 1864-1931. Life and letters of John Burroughs.
- OCLC:
- 184929
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