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[I'll trace this garden oer and oer]
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Whitman Archive Title: [I'll trace this garden oer and oer]
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00204
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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: 27
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Folder: I'll Trace This Garden. A.MS. draft.
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Series: Literary File
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Date: about 1865
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, 20.5 x 12.5 cm, handwritten
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Content:
Written in ink on letterhead from the Attorney General's Office, where
Whitman was first employed on July 1, 1865, is a transcription
beginning "[I'll trace this
garden oer and oer]." This is Whitman's transcription,
probably from memory, of "Johnny's Gone for a Soldier," a ballad popular during the
American Revolution and based on the an Irish ballad entitled "Shule Agra."
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