Research Catalog

Title

Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890-1891 / by two Lancashire friends, J. Johnston, M.D., and J.W. Wallace ; with twenty illustrations.

Author

Johnston, John, 1852-1927

Publication

London : G. Allen & Unwin, Ltd., [1918]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wallace, J. W. (James William), 1853-1926
• George Allen & Unwin Ltd, publisher.
• Unwin Brothers (Firm), printer.

Description

279, [1] pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits, facsimiles (1 folded); 19 cm

Summary

This volume consists of Johnston's Visit to Walt Whitman and some of his friends in 1890 (first published in 1898); copies of letters and post-cards from Walt Whitman to J. Johnston and J. W. Wallace, May 29, 1887, to February 6, 1892; and three chapters by J. W. Wallace: Walt Whitman's friends in Lancashire, Visits to Walt Whitman and his friends in 1891, and Whitman's last illness and final messages.

Subject

• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 > Last years
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 > Friends and associates
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 > Last years
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 > Friends and associates
• 1800-1899
• Poets, American > 19th century > Biography
• Friendship
• Last years of a person's life
• Poets, American
• Poets, American > 19th century > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Biographies.
• Publishers' advertisements – England – London – 20th century.
• Publishers' advertisements.

Note

• "First published in December 1917; reprinted February 1918."
• The present volume consists of Johnston's Visit to Walt Whitman and some of his friends in 1890 (first published in 1898); copies of letters and post-cards from Walt Whitman to J. Johnston and J.W. Wallace, May 29, 1887, to Feb. 6, 1892; and three chapters by J.W. Wallace: Walt Whitman's friends in Lancashire, Visits to Walt Whitman and his friends in 1891, and Whitman's last illness and final messages.

LCCN

18016550

OCLC

• ocm07945237
• 7945237
• SCSB-8847820

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library