{"id":11170,"date":"2019-10-04T16:03:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T20:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=11170"},"modified":"2019-10-04T16:03:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T20:03:04","slug":"exhibit-the-last-will-of-walt-whitman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/exhibit-the-last-will-of-walt-whitman\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibit | The Last Will of Walt Whitman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Camden, New Jersey: June 29, 1888<br>Brown University Library, Special Collections<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/10\/Walt-whitman-1024x959.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11179\" width=\"512\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/10\/Walt-whitman-1024x959.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/10\/Walt-whitman-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/10\/Walt-whitman.jpg 1348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In June of 1888, celebrated American poet Walt Whitman suffered a stroke, which left him partially paralyzed. Fearful he would not recover, Whitman drafted this will, which leaves the majority of his money to his sisters, his property to his brother, and names three literary executors. Whitman would survive for four more years, and go on to publish four more works, including his &#8220;Deathbed Edition&#8221; of&nbsp;<em>Leaves of Grass<\/em>.<br><br>This manuscript is just one of several thousand books and manuscripts recently presented to the library by Daniel G. Siegel &#8217;57. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Exhibit Dates<\/strong>: October 4 &#8211; 31<em>,<\/em> 2019<br><strong>Exhibit Time<\/strong>:&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/hay\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">John Hay Library Hours<\/a><br><strong>Exhibit Location<\/strong>: Second Floor Landing, John Hay Library, 20 Prospect&nbsp;Street, Providence   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camden, New Jersey: June 29, 1888Brown University Library, Special Collections In June of 1888, celebrated American poet Walt Whitman suffered a stroke, which left him partially paralyzed. Fearful he would not recover, Whitman drafted this will, which leaves the majority of his money to his sisters, his property to his brother, and names three literary <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/exhibit-the-last-will-of-walt-whitman\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Exhibit | The Last Will of Walt Whitman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,5,34,6,35,8,155,10,36,14,20,1,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collections","category-exhibits-events","category-exhibits-events-special-collections","category-featured-resources","category-general-interest","category-hay","category-home-page","category-josiah-carberry","category-new-acquisitions","category-new-resources","category-special-collections","category-uncategorized","category-uncategorized-special-collections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}