Catherine Pelton Durrell '25: Archives & Special Collections Library

Exhibition Checklist

Case 1:

• Facsimile of first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855) by Walt Whitman, 1855.
• Third Edition of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, 1860.

Case 2:

• Photograph of John Burroughs, 186-?
• Photographs of Burroughs’ house and the U.S. Treasury Department in Washington D.C., 186-?

Case 3:

• Drum Taps by Walt Whitman, 1865.
• John Burroughs, “Walt Whitman and his Drum Taps” in The Galaxy, December 1866.

Case 4:

• Autographed letter signed by E.M. Allen to John Burroughs, 1867.
• Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person by John Burroughs, 1867.

Case 5:

• Broadside announcing the sale of Walt Whitman and John Burroughs books (reproduction), 1872.

Case 6:

• Inscribed Leaves of Grass from Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 1871.
• Wake Robin by John Burroughs, 1871.

Case 7:

• Democratic Vistas by Walt Whitman, 1871.
• Photograph of Walt Whitman by Frederick Gutekunst, 1873?

Case 8:

• Autographed letter signed by Brown Goode to John Burroughs, 1877.
• Autographed letter signed by Rudolph Schmidt to John Burroughs, 1877.

Case 9:

• New York Tribune article by Walt Whitman, recounting visit to Vassar with John Burroughs, 1879.
• “Dirge for Two Veterans,” set to music by Frederic Louis Ritter, and dedicated to John Burroughs, 1880.

Case 10:

• “The Flight of the Eagle” in Birds and Poets by John Burroughs, 1877.
• Color postcards and brochure relating to Whitman birthplace, n.d.

Case 11:

• Specimen Days by Walt Whitman, 1882.
• Essays from “The Critic,” 1882.

Case 12:

• John Burroughs Journal, 1883.
• Walt Whitman Notebook Used Along the New Jersey Coast, September & October 1883 (Caliban Press, 1992).

Case 13:

• Photograph of Walt Whitman at Ocean Grove, 1883.
• “A Salt Breeze” in Signs and Seasons by John Burroughs.

Case 14:

• Autographed letter signed by Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 1889.
• Camden’s Compliment to Walt Whitman by Horace Traubel, 1889.

Case 15:

• At the Graveside of Walt Whitman (The Conservator, April, 1892)
• Photograph of Walt Whitman gravesite.
• Booklet “Goodbye and Hail, Walt Whitman,” 1892.

Case 16:

• “Walt Whitman and His Recent Critics,” by John Burroughs in In Re Walt Whitman by Horace Traubel, 1893.
• “Whitman’s Self-Reliance,” by John Burroughs in Walt Whitman Fellowship Papers by Walt Whitman, 1894.

Case 17:

• Whitman: A Study by John Burroughs, 1896.
• Poems of Walt Whitman, with biographical introduction by John Burroughs, 1902.

Case 18:

• Whitman Centenary at Vassar program, May 1919.
• “Whitman the Incarnation of Democracy,” in Vassar Miscellany News, May 7, 1919.
• Photograph of John Burroughs at Whitman Centenary.

Case 19:

• “Poet of the Cosmos” in Accepting the Universe by John Burroughs, 1920.
• Photograph of John Burroughs, 1921.

Case 20:

• Postcard photograph of John Burroughs’ last resting place.
• Whitman and Burroughs, Comrades, by Clara Barrus, 1931.