Manuscript/Mixed Material Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: Recovered Cardboard Butterfly and Notebooks, [1847]-[circa 1863-1864]; Cardboard butterfly, undated LC #220 Whitman's Cardboard Butterfly
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About this Item
Title
- Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: Recovered Cardboard Butterfly and Notebooks, [1847]-[circa 1863-1864]; Cardboard butterfly, undated
Other Title
- LC #220 Whitman's Cardboard Butterfly
Names
- Neale, John Mason 1818-1866 (Contributor)
- Harned, Thomas Biggs, 1851-1921 (Collector)
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 (Creator)
Created / Published
- Undated; likely between 1850-1860
Headings
- - Easter
- - Hymns
- - Butterflies in art
- - Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- - American poetry
- - Harned, Thomas Biggs, 1851-1921--Correspondence
- - Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of grass. 1855
- - Manuscripts
- - United States
Genre
- Manuscripts
Notes
- - Box 8 contains cardboard butterfly and four notebooks containing diary entries, poetry drafts and trial lines, prose drafts, notes on Civil War hospital patients, names and addresses, and miscellaneous notes. This is one of the items numbered 1, 2, 5, 7, and 11 in the Library's 1954 pamphlet "Ten Notebooks and a Cardboard Butterfly Missing from the Walt Whitman Papers."
Medium
- Cutouts
Call Number/Physical Location
- MSS45443, Box 8: LC #220
- mss45443, reel 1
- series: Recovered Cardboard Butterfly and Notebooks, [1847]-[circa 1863-1864]
Source Collection
- Thomas Biggs Harned collection of Walt Whitman papers
Repository
- Manuscript Division
Digital Id
Online Format
- online text
- image