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[Now Supplement Hours]

  • Whitman Archive Title: [Now Supplement Hours]
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.00523
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress
  • Box: 1
  • Folder: Supplement Hours
  • Series: Manuscripts
  • Date: about 1891
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, 6.5 cm x 15.5 cm to 21 cm x 13 cm, handwritten
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  • Content: Draft and trial lines of a poem unpublished in Whitman's lifetime, though published posthumously as "Supplement Hours." The poem was part of a cluster entitled "Old Age Echoes," included in an edition of Leaves of Grass compiled by Whitman's literary executors and published in 1897 (Boston: Small, Maynard). On the verso is a prose manuscript recalling Whitman's years in Washington during and after the Civil War. The prose manuscript has no known relationship to his published work.
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