[WHITMAN, WALT]. Portrait photograph of Whitman, seated facing camera, three-quarters length, 230 x 180mm. (9 x 7in.), a small tear at upper edge, taken ca. late 1880s; mounted with (mounting defective): Printed text of nine-line poem beginning "Come, Said My Soul," with WIHTMAN'S BOLD AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURE beneath, 1881 copyright notice on verso, 50 x 100mm. (2 x 4in.), apparently cut from title-page of a copy of Leaves of Grass (the Camden 1882 Author's Edition).

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[WHITMAN, WALT]. Portrait photograph of Whitman, seated facing camera, three-quarters length, 230 x 180mm. (9 x 7in.), a small tear at upper edge, taken ca. late 1880s; mounted with (mounting defective): Printed text of nine-line poem beginning "Come, Said My Soul," with WIHTMAN'S BOLD AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURE beneath, 1881 copyright notice on verso, 50 x 100mm. (2 x 4in.), apparently cut from title-page of a copy of Leaves of Grass (the Camden 1882 Author's Edition).