The Dalliance of the Eagles

Whitman Archive Title: The Dalliance of the Eagles
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00023
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Box: 26
Folder: The Dalliance of the Eagles (1880). A.MS. drafts.
Series: Literary File
Date: about 1880
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 4 leaves, 21.5 x 20 cm, handwritten
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Content: On a surface made by pasting together six scraps of paper (back of a discarded envelope from Geo. S. Woodhull and Son, Law Offices, Camden, postmarked Apr 6; back of a discarded letter, dated New York, March 29, 1880; and other scraps), a late draft of the poem "The Dalliance of the Eagles," about 120 words, showing a few minor variations from the first-published version of 1880.