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The Rarer Game, Don Welch

Special Collections

Poems by Nebraska poet Don Welch.

Contents

• The Rarer Game: A Sequence of Poems about Birds and an Animal
• Cardinal
• The Dutchman
• Walking a Pit South of Gothenburg
• The Doe
• Poet in Residence at a Country School
• The Bloodroot
• Singing a Bird's Song
• The Chicken Poem
• Upon Finally Winning Something Big at the Fair
• North of the House
• The Cranes
• The Runner
• The Last Wild Passenger Pigeon, 1899
• How to Live in Buffalo County
• The Lee of December
• The Widow
• The Duck Woman
• The Once
• Fishing, at Coot Shallows
• Deer, at Night
• The Ball
• The Wild Asparagus Hunters
• Blood-red Sumac …

Candles For Christmas, Bernice Halbert

Special Collections

Self-published booklet containing a poem about Christmas, using candles as its main theme.

Letter From William C. Booth To Thomas Fenton Taylor, William C. Booth

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Letter from William C. Booth to Thomas Fenton Taylor describing his relationship with Walter Whitman, Sr., and his son, Walt Whitman, the poet.

The letter is pasted into the front of Taylor’s copy of John Burroughs, Whitman: A Study. Volume Ten of the Riverby Edition of the Writings of John Burroughs (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905). The Burroughs set was presented to Taylor by the publisher on March 8, 1906 per the bookplate in the first volume.

Held in a private collection; access to the original available upon request.