[Rarebooks] FS: John Burroughs MANUSCRIPTS and LETTERS including Walt Whitman

[Charles Agvent]

BURROUGHS, John [Walt WHITMAN]. MANUSCRIPTS and LETTERS in 5 Volumes 
from his Collected Works. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895 - 
1913. First Edition. Green cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Several 
odd volumes from the Riverside Edition of THE WRITINGS OF JOHN 
BURROUGHS, limited to 1000 copies. Each volume has tipped or laid in 
MANUSCRIPT Material or Letters. Volume I contains a TYPED LETTER SIGNED 
by the publisher to Charles N. Elliot dated 1896 describing the 
publication of the set. This volume is SIGNED by Elliot on the title 
page. Volume III has tipped in a brief handwritten MANUSCRIPT ink 
segment by Burroughs of about 50 words that begins "Yet I am aware that 
Whitman does not mind discord...." It is tipped in at the beginning of 
his chapter on Whitman titled "The Flight of the Eagle." Laid in loosely 
in Volume VII is a handwritten MANUSCRIPT ink page on the voice of the 
critic. Tipped in to Volume XV is a 1912 TYPED LETTER SIGNED by 
Burroughs to Elliot thanking him for his birthday wishes that found him 
"in good health and enjoying life as much as ever," and also thanking 
him for photographs of Maurice Bucke who became one of Whitman's most 
devoted friends and supporters in the poet's later years. Volume XVII 
has a 3-1/2 page AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED in pencil by Burroughs 
tipped in where the text occurs in the essay "The Hit-And-Miss Method of 
Nature" in the book THE SUMMIT OF THE YEARS. In addition to the material 
by Burroughs, Elliot has made several small bibliographical notes in the 
volumes. Three additional volumes from this set are included making a 
total of 8 volumes. Two of the volumes have dampstaining, especially 
heavy to Vol. XVII, but the manuscript material is largely unaffected. 
Rubbing and sunning to the volumes. Manuscript material Very Good or 
better; the volumes Good to Very Good.

Charles N. Elliot was an important collector of Walt Whitman materials. 
His correspondence is held by the Library of Congress. (#020891)        
$1,000

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