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Whitman Archive Title: 1848 New Orleans
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Whitman Archive ID: med.00725
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Repository: Catalog of Unlocated Walt Whitman Manuscripts
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Date: between 1848 and 1887
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: number of leaves unknown, handwritten
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Content:
Notes on Whitman's experience in New Orleans in 1848. Whitman used some of these notes in "New Orleans in 1848," first published as "New Orleans in 1848: Walt Whitman Gossips of His Sojourn Here Years Ago as a Newspaper Writer: Notes of His Trip Up the Mississippi and to New York" in the New Orleans
Daily Picayune
, 25 January 1887. This essay was included in
November Boughs
(1888), and collected in
Complete Prose Works
(1892). This manuscript is known only from a transcription published by Emory Holloway in
The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman
(Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921), 77–78.
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