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To the Man-of-War-Bird

  • Whitman Archive Title: To the Man-of-War-Bird
  • Whitman Archive ID: tex.00049
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin
  • Box: 2
  • Folder: 6
  • Series: Works, 1846-1913 and undated
  • Repository Title: To the Man-of-War-Bird
  • Date: about 1878
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, proof with corrections
  • View Images: 1
  • Content: Clipping of "The Man-of-War-Bird," with handwritten revisions, from the November 16, 1878 Philadelphia Progress . The poem had first appeared in the London Athenaeum , on 1 April 1876. The poem was included in some copies of Leaves of Grass (1876). In the 1881–82 and later printings of Leaves of Grass it was included in the "Sea-Drift" cluster. The newspaper clipping has been pasted down and no verso image is available.
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