Walt Whitman's small notebook, now disbound, had this black leather cover when the poet carried it in his coat pocket. Whitman first saw Lincoln when the president-elect visited New York on his ...

His notebook from this period bore the name of "Walt Whitman, Soldiers' Missionary." Small and Large Kindnesses These small charities cost money. Whitman solicited donations from friends and ...

Whitman's great grandfather had been a slave owner (slavery was legal on Long Island until 1828) and Whitman did not have a high opinion of the ten percent of Brooklyn residents who were of ...