1889 A large celebration was given in honor of the poet's seventieth birthday. Whitman worked hard throughout his life to attain the literary attention he felt he deserved. By the end of his life he was respected in both the United States and England and his work had been translated into a number of languages. Visitors to his house at Mickle Street included Oscar Wilde, Edmond Gosse, Horace Howard Furness and Joseph Penell. Financial support in his later years came from a varied group that included Edwin Booth, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson. 1891 Completed and published Good-Bye My Fancy and the final version of Leaves of Grass . 1892 Walt Whitman died on March 26. Scope and Content Note The Berg Collection's letters and manuscripts by Walt Whitman cover the years 1859 to 1891 with a small amount of material as yet undated. Strengths of the collection include nearly 30 poems or poem fragments and Whitman's autograph revision of the Analysis of Poems by Dr. R. Bucke. This essay was written for Bucke's authorized biography (Walt Whitman, 1883) and Whitman's extensive revisions were incorporated before publication. The correspondence includes two longer runs, one to William O' Connor and the other to his wife Ellen O'Connor. The O'Connors were active in a number of social causes, as well as devoted advocates of Whitman and his writing. William O'Connor, author of The Good Gray Poet (1866), was one of Whitman's closest friends until an argument in 1873 caused a break in their friendship. Others who figure prominently in the Berg Collection's Whitman materials include John Burroughs (1837-1921), nature writer, literary critic, and author of Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person (1867); Peter Doyle and Harry Stafford, young friends of Whitman's; and Richard Maurice Bucke (1837-1902), Whitman's authorized biographer, friend and literary executor. In addition to writing Walt Whitman (1883) and Walt Whitman, Man and Poet (1897), Bucke co-edited with Horace Traubel and Thomas Harned The Complete Writings (1902). Arrangement: Series I, Manuscripts, Arranged Alphabetically Series II, Manuscripts relating to Whitman, Arranged Alphabetically Series III, Outgoing correspondence, Arranged Alphabetically by Recipient Series IV Incoming correspondence, Arranged Alphabetically by author Series V, Correspondence relating to Whitman, Arranged Alphabetically Series VI, Portraits Key Terms Subjects Civil war Poetry -- American Genre/Physical Characteristic Manuscripts Personal correspondence Portraits Names Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 Bucke, Richard Maurice, 1837-1902