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Problems of Literary Executorship by Norman Holmes Pearson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I. The Order of Issues

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II. The Order of Variants in the First Issue

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III. The Size and Distribution of Issues

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IV. The Effigies Leaf

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V. Historical Associations: The Charles I Copy

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VI. Tabulation of Variants

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VII. Register of Copies

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The Text of the Spectator by Donald F. Bond

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

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I. The Second Folio Edition, 1755-56

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II. The Third Folio Edition, 1765

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III. The Fourth Folio Edition, 1773

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Type Sizes in the Eighteenth Century by Philip Gaskell

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Notes on the Table

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Baskerville and James Whatman A. T. Hazen

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

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

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Two New Works of Robert Southey Kenneth Curry

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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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[letter 1]

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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.)

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Addendum Ernst Kyriss

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A SELECTIVE CHECK LIST OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SCHOLARSHIP FOR 1951

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Part I: INCUNABULA AND EARLY RENAISSANCE, by Rudolf Hirsch

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Part II: THE LATER RENAISSANCE TO THE PRESENT, by Howell J. Heaney

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1. Bibliographies, Check Lists, Enumeration

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A. English and General

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B. United States

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2. Printing, Publishing, Bibliographical and Textual Scholarship

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A. English and General

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B. United States

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Notes On Contributors

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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

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WINNERS OF 1952 STUDENT BOOK COLLECTORS' CONTEST

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WINNERS OF THE PRINTERS' CONTEST FOR BEST PRINTING IN VIRGINIA 1951-1952

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PAPERS READ BEFORE THE SOCIETY

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CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS FOR 1952

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Franklin Square, New York, November 1, 1873.

Mr. Walt Whitman, Dear Sir,

I send enclosed Messrs Harper & Brothers' check for One Hundred Dollars ($100), in payment for your poem, "Song of the Redwood Tree."

The Messrs Harper do not object to the subsequent publication of the poem in book form, provided such publication is not made until six months after the appearance of the poem in their Magazine.

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With thanks for your poem (of which I will send you proof in a few days), & the best wishes for your welfare, I am

Sincerely yours
H. M. Alden.

Ed. Harper's Mag.