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Whitman Archive Title: "Summer Duck"
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00158
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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: 39
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Folder: Literary, Before 1855, Wood Drake
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Series: Notes and Notebooks
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Date: Between 1852 and 1855
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Genre: poetry, prose
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Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
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These pages were written by Whitman in the early to mid-1850s. William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (
Daybooks and Notebooks
[New York: New York University Press, 1978], 770–773). White noted a possible relationship between the opening words and the first poem of the 1855 edition, eventually titled "Song of Myself." The lines at the end of this manuscript were also reworked and used for a different section of the same poem. For further discussion of the dating and importance of this notebook, see Matt Miller,
Collage of Myself: Walt Whitman and the Making of
Leaves of Grass (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010), 26–29.
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