Addenda

The Addenda portion of the Charles E. Feinberg collection of Walt Whitman Papers is a miscellany collection that includes some materials in Whitman’s hand---trial lines for a poem, instructions to a printer---as well as printed items that were created during his lifetime. These include a book binding label, news clippings and scrapbook pages, and Whitman poetry and prose published in periodicals.

However, the set of materials is mostly made up of printed items about Whitman and those that document his lasting fame within American literary into history and society reaching well the 20th Century.  Items include description of a statue of a strolling Whitman designed by sculptor Jo Davidson and installed at Bear Mountain, New York, in 1940, and a toll sheet for the Walt Whitman Bridge that spans the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Camden County, New Jersey, which was constructed and named in Whitman’s honor in the 1950s.