Title: ["Myself, Typical, Before All" by Walt Whitman]: In the Summer, 1916, Vol. 1, No. 3 Issue of the Sunset of Bon Echo. Whitman Fellowship Number.
Description: Bon Echo, Ontario: Bon Echo Inn, 1916. 1916. - Octavo, 9-1/8 inches high by 6 inches wide. Softcover, pictorial light green stapled wraps. 31 & [1] pages with pictorial and formal decorations. Very good.
Walt Whitman's poem "Myself, Typical, Before All" as published on the first page of the Summer 1916 issue of "The Sunset of Bon Echo".
The periodical also includes the text of a May 28th, 1916 "Letter from Horace Traubel" and Richard Le Gallienne's poem "Woman and War".
Located on the Upper and Lower Mazinaw Lakes in Ontario, Bon Echo, a sixty-four-hundred-acre tract of wilderness, was the center of Whitman activities from 1916 through the 1920's. The estate, with its large inn and cottages was operated by the Canadian suffragist and spiritualist Flora MacDonald Denison who published the little magazine "The Sunset of Bon Echo" which was dedicated to Walt Whitman. She held meetings of the Whitman Club of Bon Echo. MacDonald turned the face of the granite cliff overlooking the lakes into a monument to Whitman and named it "Old Walt". Together with Horace Traubel, they dedicated the monument to his memory in the Summer of 1919, just a few days before Traubel passed away. Her son Merrill unsuccessfully attempted to run Bon Echo as a boys' camp following her death and subsequently donated the land to Canada in 1959. Bon Echo is now an Ontario Provincial Park. Very good .
Keywords: LITERATURE; WALT WHITMAN; FLORA MACDONALD; THE SUNSET OF BON ECHO; WHITMAN FELLOWSHIP NUMBER; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; POEM; POETRY; MYSELF, TYPICAL, BEFORE ALL; RICHARD LE GALLIENNE; WOMAN AND WAR; PERIODICAL; CANADIAN SUFFRAGIST; SPIRITUALIST; F
- Book number: 97142
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