"Walter Whitman married Louisa Van Velsor June 8, 1816"
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Description from Frey: Autograph manuscript, written in ink on one sheet of ruled paper, about 12 x 7 inches. Recto: thirty-two lines. Verso: "is rougher than it was on Michigan or Huron"; thirty-nine lines. Bound in a small folio volume, half green morocco. A list of the names and birth dates of the members of Whitman's family; a newspaper clipping on the death of Walter Whitman is pasted on the page. The fragment on verso is a portion of the diary of Whitman's trip from New Orleans, beginning with the journey on the Great Lakes and ending with the return to Brooklyn (Uncollected Poetry and Prose, 11, 78-79).
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- Former location: MS f 129
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