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[the scope of government]
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Whitman Archive Title: [the scope of government]
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00157
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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.
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Box: 37
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Folder: 1855-1856 (?), Government, Nature, Trial Lines, Self-Advice
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Series: Notes and Notebooks
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Date: between 1855-1856
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Genre: poetry, prose
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Physical Description: about 20 leaves, handwritten
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Content:
A notebook Whitman used for various purposes in the mid-1850s. Edward F.
Grier, in his edition of Whitman's
Notebooks and Unpublished Prose
Manuscripts
(New York: New York University Press, 1984. 6 vols.), noted that the
notebook contains lines and phrases that relate to several poems: "Assurances,"
"This Compost," and
an unfinished poem entitled "The Insects. On some of the leaves Whitman has rotated the notebook and written upside down."
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