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Problems of Literary Executorship by Norman Holmes Pearson

Establishing a Text: The Emily Dickinson Papers by Thomas H. Johnson

The Text of the "Envoy to Alison" by Harris Chewning

Notes on the Wynkyn de Worde Editions of the Boke of St Albans and its Separates by Eloise Pafort

The Copy for the First Folio Richard II by Richard E. Hasker

Compositor Determination in the First Folio King Lear by I. B. Cauthen, Jr.

The Issues and States of the Second Folio and Milton's Epitaph on Shakespeare by William B. Todd

The Text of the Spectator by Donald F. Bond

The Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language: Johnson's Revision and the Establishment of the Text by W. R. Keast

Type Sizes in the Eighteenth Century by Philip Gaskell

The Pre-Publication Printings of Tarkington's Penrod by Campbell R. Coxe

The Morgan Copy of Machlinia's Speculum Christiani Curt F. Bühler

The Melancholy Cavalier: A Study in Seventeenth-Century Plagiarism Sarah Dickson

The Early Editions of Dryden's State of Innocence Marion H. Hamilton

The Pirated Quarto of Dryden's State of Innocence Fredson Bowers

Thomas D'Urfey's Richmond Heiress (1693): A Bibliographical Study Raymond A. Biswanger, Jr.

Variant Forms of Fielding's Coffee-House Politician Jeanne Addison Masengill

The Case of the Planters of Tobacco in Virginia, 1733: An Extraordinary Use of Standing Type Oliver L. Steele, Jr.

Baskerville and James Whatman A. T. Hazen

The First Edition of Essays by Mr. Goldsmith, 1765 Arthur Friedman

Some Notes on Edward Gibbon's Mémoire Justificatif Robert R. Rea

Two New Works of Robert Southey Kenneth Curry

The Printing of Jefferson's Notes, 1793-94 Coolie Verner P. J. Conkwright

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A Sheaf of Whitman Letters Walter Harding

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I. (Blue-lined white paper, 8" x 5", one page)

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II. (White paper, 4" x 6", four pages; envelope addressed to Charles W. Eldridge / care Major Hapgood / Paymaster U S Army / Washington D C, postmarked Brooklyn.)

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III. (Blue-lined white paper, 8" x 5", four pages)

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IV. (White paper, unlined, with Harper's official heading, 8" x 5")

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V. (White paper, 8" x 5", one page).

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VI. (Grey paper, unlined, 9½" x 6")

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VII. (Postal card postmarked Camden, September 11, 1883, and addressed to Karl Knortz, cor Morris Avenue & 155th Street, New York City)

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VIII. (Postal card postmarked Philadelphia, June 11, 1885, and addressed to Sylvester Baxter, Outing office, 175 Tremont St., Boston, Mass.)

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IX. (White board, 4½" x 3½")

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X. (Blue-lined white paper, 10" x 7½", one page)

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XI. (Blue-lined white paper, 10" x 8", two sheets; envelope postmarked Camden, June 14, and addressed to Carl Knortz.)

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XII. (Light green paper, 10" x 8", two sheets, originally used by Ernest Rhys for his letter to Whitman of March 29, 1887).

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XIII. (Postal card, postmarked Camden June 14, and addressed to Karl Knortz.)

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XIV. (Postal card postmarked September 30, 1889, and addressed to O. O. Hemenway, Pittsfield, Illinois.)

Addendum Ernst Kyriss

A SELECTIVE CHECK LIST OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SCHOLARSHIP FOR 1951

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Eldridge was a member of the firm of Thayer & Eldridge of Boston who had published the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass and then had gone bankrupt when the outbreak of war had extinguished their Southern credit. Eldridge then became an assistant in Major Hapgood's office in Washington and managed to procure a desk for Whitman there and a small income for him for minor copyist duties. Eldridge had also introduced Whitman to his future biographer William O'Connor and his wife Nelly. J. Hubley Ashton was Assistant Attorney-General. He later obtained a position for Whitman in the Office of Indian Affairs. Arnold Johnson was Charles Sumner's private secretary.