BIB_ID
101351
Accession number
MA 5111 (1-3)
Creator
Hollyer, Samuel, 1826-1919.
Display Date
1897 Nov. 17 and 21.
Credit line
Purchased with PML 6069.
Description
2 items (4 p.)
Notes
The copy referred to in the letters is in the Morgan Library (PML 6069).
Summary
The first letter (MA 5111.1), sent with a proof of Hollyer's etching of Walt Whitman, details the circumstances under which Whitman gave him the first copy of the first edition (1855) of his Leaves of Grass; the second concerns the creation of his etching of Whitman.
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