[Draw a picture of a model]

Whitman Archive Title: [Draw a picture of a model]
Whitman Archive ID: loc.02308
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: 40
Folder: Literary, Undated, Model American
Series: Notes and Notebooks
Date: about 1868
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: The description of "a model American young man" inscribed on this manuscript likely contributed to Whitman's journalism of the late 1850s and represents an early stage of the "model or portrait of Personality, for general use, for the manliness of The States" that Whitman set forth in his essay "Personalism," which appeared in the May 1868 issue of The Galaxy. He later combined the material from this and other essays to form Democratic Vistas, published as a monograph in 1871 and reprinted in Two Rivulets (1876), Specimen Days & Collect (1882–1883), Democratic Vistas, and Other Papers (1888), and Complete Prose Works (1892).