Poet at Work: Walt Whitman Notebooks 1850s-1860s
- From: J Flenner <varney@[redacted]>
- Subject: Poet at Work: Walt Whitman Notebooks 1850s-1860s
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:36:32 EST
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From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2006.
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Poet at Work: Walt Whitman Notebooks 1850s-1860s
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/whitman/
During his life, Walt Whitman carried around a number of notebooks in which
he jotted down his thoughts and feelings. It is estimated that during his
life, Whitman created around 100 of these notebooks, and many of them are
now in public repositories. This particular collection from the American
Memory Project at the Library of Congress affords visitors access to four of
these celebrated notebooks. These four notebooks have a rather interesting
story, largely due to the fact that they disappeared from the Library in
1942 and were returned only in 1995. For some background material, visitors
may want to begin by reading one of the essays about the re-appearance of
these works and their subsequent digitization. Visitors might then want to
browse through the collection, which includes the first trial lines of what
would become "Leaves of Grass" or his 1862 "Hospital" notebook. [KMG]