This class consists of programmes, cuttings, an invitation and a poster relating to: events held in America by the Walt Whitman Fellowship International in 1896 and 1900; the fundraising and purchase of Whitman's birthplace on Long Island; Whitman's house at Mickle Street, Camden, New Jersey; a bronze bust of Whitman sculpted by Chester Beach which was installed in the Hall of Fame at New York University in 1931; a commemorative plaque to the poet erected in Brooklyn in 1931; and a Whitman exhibition held at the American Library in London in 1954.
1/5/11 consists of an envelope addressed to Charles Sixsmith from Mrs F.J. [Harriet] Sprague [an American Whitman enthusiast and collector], enclosing: a copy of Newsday paper, devoted to the campaign to save the Long Island birthplace of Whitman, and some advertising material using the image of Whitman to sell products.