American poet, essayist and journalist (1819–1892)

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Walt Whitman. Photographic postcard after N. Sarony, 190-.

The wound dresser : a series of letters written from the hospitals in Washington during the war of the rebellion / by Walt Whitman ; edited by Richard Maurice Bucke.

Medical biographies : the ailments of thirty-three famous persons / by Philip Marshall Dale ; foreword by Howard F. Stein.

Specimen days in America / by Walt Whitman.

Walt Whitman's anomaly / by W.C. Rivers.

Richard Maurice Bucke, medical mystic : letters of Dr. Bucke to Walt Whitman and his friends / selected and edited by Artem Lozynsky ; with a foreword by Gay Wilson Allen.

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Walt Whitman

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Images featuring Walt Whitman

Works from the collections

The wound dresser : a series of letters written from the hospitals in Washington during the war of the rebellion / by Walt Whitman ; edited by Richard Maurice Bucke.

Specimen days in America / by Walt Whitman.

Richard Maurice Bucke, medical mystic : letters of Dr. Bucke to Walt Whitman and his friends / selected and edited by Artem Lozynsky ; with a foreword by Gay Wilson Allen.

Walt Whitman

Images from the collections

Images featuring Walt Whitman

Works from the collections

The wound dresser : a series of letters written from the hospitals in Washington during the war of the rebellion / by Walt Whitman ; edited by Richard Maurice Bucke.

Specimen days in America / by Walt Whitman.

Richard Maurice Bucke, medical mystic : letters of Dr. Bucke to Walt Whitman and his friends / selected and edited by Artem Lozynsky ; with a foreword by Gay Wilson Allen.

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