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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]; Notebooks; [circa 1863-1864] , Washington hospital notebook Notebook LC #101- Washington hospital notebook

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Title

  • Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: Recovered Cardboard Butterfly and Notebooks, [1847]-[circa 1863-1864]; Notebooks; [circa 1863-1864] , Washington hospital notebook

Other Title

  • Notebook LC #101- Washington hospital notebook

Names

  • Harned, Thomas Biggs, 1851-1921 (Collector)
  • Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 (Creator)

Created / Published

  • 1863 - 1864

Headings

  • -  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."

Call Number/Physical Location

  • MSS45443, Box 8: Notebook LC #101
  • 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

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Online Format

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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:

Harned, Thomas Biggs, and Walt Whitman. Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: Recovered Cardboard Butterfly and Notebooks, 1847-Circa 1863 to 1864; Notebooks; Circa 1863 to 1864 , Washington Hospital Notebook. - 1864, 1863. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/mss454430220/.

APA citation style:

Harned, T. B. & Whitman, W. (1863) Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: Recovered Cardboard Butterfly and Notebooks, 1847-Circa 1863 to 1864; Notebooks; Circa 1863 to 1864 , Washington Hospital Notebook. - 1864. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mss454430220/.

MLA citation style:

Harned, Thomas Biggs, and Walt Whitman. Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: Recovered Cardboard Butterfly and Notebooks, 1847-Circa 1863 to 1864; Notebooks; Circa 1863 to 1864 , Washington Hospital Notebook. - 1864, 1863. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/mss454430220/>.