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Whitman Archive Title: Prayer of Columbus
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00266
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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: 28
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Folder: Prayer of Columbus (1874). A.MS. corrected pages.
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Series: Literary File
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Date: 1881
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten
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Content:
Bound corrected proofs of "Prayer of Columbus," which was published first in 1874. The
title page, which follows Whitman's portrait, reads "Prayer of Columbus,
by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof, 1881." The corrections are most
likely for the 1881 edition of
Leaves of Grass
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