Walt Whitman's small notebook ... Whitman first saw Lincoln when the president-elect visited New York on his way to the White House: on Feb. 19, 1861, he joined a crowd of well-wishers in front ...

Then, one day, I was stopped on Washington Street by a friend who made this startling announcement: "Walt Whitman is in town ... Brooklyn and New York. His friendships were mostly with the ...

Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations In Whitman's day, New York was simply Manhattan Island. Brooklyn was a separate ...