Subject: American poetry--19th century - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Extent:: 2 item (1 page, with envelope)
Abstract:: This collection consists of an 1889 holograph letter, with envelope, from Walt Whitman to Thomas Donaldson.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 23 item
Abstract:: This collection comprises materials collected by Horace Traubel, American journalist, on his longtime friend, poet Walt Whitman.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 1 item (2 pages)
Abstract:: This collection consists of an undated, untitled holograph Walt Whitman poem, later published, posthumously, as "186" and "187" in Notes and Fragments (1899).

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 1 volume (102 pages)
Abstract:: This mid-nineteenth century autograph album belonged to Mary F. Armstrong of Newark, Delaware, and contains original or transcribed poems about friendship signed by her female friends. Many of the contributors are from Delaware.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 1 volume
Abstract:: This commonplace volume of verse and quotations was likely created by Rebecca Bailey while at school in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, in 1852. While most of the material was copied from popular hymns, poetry, and other literature, Bailey may have written some of the poetry.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists chiefly of letters to Charles Mackay and George Routledge from 19th-century English and American poets giving permission for their poems to appear in the Mackay/Routledge illustratedd poetry anthology The Home Affections Pourtrayed by the Poets (1858).

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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