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Whitman Archive Title: wooding at night
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Whitman Archive ID: duk.00790
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Repository ID: MS q 111
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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Date: between 1848 and 1887
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
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Content:
Manuscript that chronicles part of Whitman's return journey from New Orleans in 1848. The descriptions of the "[l]ong monotonous stretch of the Mississippi" and the "[p]ainful effect of the excessive flatness of the country" found their way, in an altered form, into "New Orleans in 1848," an article that appeared in the
New Orleans Picayune
on January 25, 1887. The article was later reprinted in
November Boughs
.
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