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Sarah Helen Whitman papers (Ms. 79.11)

Brown University Library

Box A, John Hay Library
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146
Fax: 401-863-2093
E-mail: hay@brown.edu

Additional Information

Related material: RESOURCES AT BROWN: The Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays holds numerous works by Sarah Helen Whitman, and a number of other collections at the John Hay Library include works from her library and presentation copies from Whitman to friends and associates: Sarah Helen Whitman in Brown's Online Catalog In addition, there is Whitman correspondence in several other manuscript collections at the John Hay Library, notably: Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta papers, Ms. Botta John Henry Ingram letters, Ms. 85.13 John Henry Ingram letters, Ms. Harris Codex 1808 Louise Chace scrapbooks, A81-4 The John Hay Library has a daguerrotype of Sarah Helen Whitman, one of her mother (Anna Marsh Power), the Hartshorn daguerrotype of Edgar Allan Poe, and a lock of his hair that had belonged to Whitman. In addition, the Library has the 1869 John Nelson Arnold portrait in oils of Sarah Helen Whitman: Sarah Helen Whitman portrait Please contact the John Hay Library for additional information.
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