Walt Whitman and his Fellowship of Supporters in Bolton, 1891-1913 - Volumes
Volumes
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The Traubel correspondence
ZWN/5. Horace Traubel's extensive correspondence focusses primarily on Walt Whitman's life and legacy, Politics, and the Whitman Circle's family and friends. Commencing in Walt Whitman's final years of life, these letters then cover his death, before proceeding to outline how Traubel and the Whitman circle sought to preserve Whitman's legacy in the literary realm and through the preservation of his former home. Traubel also uses this correspondence to expound his... Read more →
J.W. Wallace correspondence and associated items
ZWN/6. The items in this range consist of letters, manuscripts, books and newspapers. The majority of content is correspondence between Wallace and his family; Wallace also made use of several notebooks. These records discuss his religious views, his views on World War One, and his active engagement with the Independent Labour Party. Unpublished biographies, records of the literature he possessed and samples of his poetry all serve to construct a... Read more →
Ormrod Correspondence and Associated Items
ZWN/7. The correspondence focusses on three main characters with which Ormrod was concerned: John Burroughs, Clara Barrus, and J. W. Wallace. The main subject being the proposed memoir of J. W. Wallace, including who can be trusted to write it and copyright for his letters, the collection includes a copy of the memoir in question. Correspondence also covers the deaths of John Burroughs, Clara Barrus, and J. W. Wallace alongside... Read more →
Nightingale Correspondence and Associated Items
ZWN/8. Correspondence in this collection covers the last days of three members of the Nightingale family, alongside their choice of reading matierial, and an increasing interest in Christianity. Letters and news reports in this collection also cover the donation of artifacts to Bolton Central Library and the visit of Will S. Monroe to the Bolton Whitman Circle. Read more →
