“  . . . a large and handsome fan of wood, ivory, and ostrich feathers,” autographed by Carlyle, Browning, Tennyson, Emerson, Lowell, Hans C. Andersen, Dickens, Longfellow and others, owned by Mrs. Bloomfield N. Moore of Philadelphia and brought to Donaldson by Joseph Jermon for Walt Whitman’s autograph.

          Thomas Donaldson, Walt Whitman the Man (New York: Frances P. Harper, 1896), pp. 106-107.