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Whitman Archive Title: Eidólons
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Whitman Archive ID: bpl.00007
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Repository ID: Whitman Mss.1
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Walt Whitman Collection, Rare Books and Manuscripts Department, Boston Public Library
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Repository Title: Ten pieces of manuscript
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Date: 1875 or early 1876
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 5 leaves, handwritten
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This manuscript is a draft of "Eidólons," first published in a prepublication review of
Leaves of Grass
and
Two Rivulets
. The poem, along with several others, appeared in the 19 February 1876 issue of the
New York Daily Tribune
under the head: "Walt Whitman's Poems." "Eidólons" was reprinted in the "Two Rivulets" section of
Two Rivulets
(1876) and in
Leaves of Grass
(1881–82 and 1891–92). On the reverse of the fourth leaf (surface 8) is part of a faded letter in a hand that is not Whitman's.
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