William Douglas O’Connor, The Good Gray Poet, New York: Bunce and Huntington, 1866.

William Douglas O’Connor, The Good Gray Poet, New York: Bunce and Huntington, 1866.

Walt Whitman

William Douglas O’Connor, The Good Gray Poet, New York: Bunce and Huntington, 1866.

First edition as this free-standing pamphlet. It later was reprinted as part of Richard Maurice Bucke’s biography of Whitman, Walt Whitman (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1883). This rare copy is missing the front paper cover. This defense of Whitman was written in response to the poet being fired from the Department of the Interior by Secretary James Harland for having written Leaves of Grass. Also shown is a signed photograph of O’Connor by Rockwood Studio, NY, NY.

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1866

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