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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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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
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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of Walt Whitman Papers.

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Chicago citation style:

Neale, John Mason, Thomas Biggs Harned, and Walt Whitman. Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: Recovered Cardboard Butterfly and Notebooks, 1847-Circa 1863 to 1864; Cardboard Butterfly, Undated. Undated; Likely Between to 1860, 1847. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/mss454430216/.

APA citation style:

Neale, J. M., Harned, T. B. & Whitman, W. (1847) Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: Recovered Cardboard Butterfly and Notebooks, 1847-Circa 1863 to 1864; Cardboard Butterfly, Undated. Undated; Likely Between to 1860. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mss454430216/.

MLA citation style:

Neale, John Mason, Thomas Biggs Harned, and Walt Whitman. Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: Recovered Cardboard Butterfly and Notebooks, 1847-Circa 1863 to 1864; Cardboard Butterfly, Undated. Undated; Likely Between to 1860, 1847. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/mss454430216/>.