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WALT WHITMAN NOTES FOUND

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19950219
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WASHINGTON Four long-lost notebooks by Walt Whitman, stolen from the Library of Congress a half-century ago, have been recovered, Sotheby's auction house says.

Found by a man, who was not identified, among his late father's papers, the notebooks will be returned to the library.

Six Whitman notebooks are still missing. The 10 stolen volumes were part of a total of 24 donated to the library in 1920.

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