From the Vaults: Whitman and Thoreau

In this segment of From the Vaults in Rare Books and Special Collections, Mark Dimunation meets with Stephanie Stillo to discuss two of America’s most beloved figures - Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau. In 1856, the two writers met for a “walk in talk” in Brooklyn on an autumn day and exchanged books, a gesture that quickly took on a life of its own.
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