A Guide to the Essays by Walt Whitman, 1850-1865
A Collection in the
Tracy W. McGregor Library
The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 9778
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Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation
Essays by Walt Whitman, Accession #9778, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
This collection was given to the library by Tracy W. McGregor on 1972 January 26.
Scope and Content Information
The collection contains five essays by Whitman: Abraham Lincoln, 1865; Homer and Shakespeare, 1857; On Samuel Johnson, 1857; On Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, 1850; and Shakespeare and his sonnets and Edmund Spenser, 1850. Also included are notes on the Dutch and English traits in his personality, and on his method of composing Leaves of Grass.