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The tramp & strike questions

  • Whitman Archive Title: The tramp & strike questions
  • Whitman Archive ID: tex.00311
  • 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: The Tramp and Strike Questions, notes
  • Date: about 1882
  • Genre: prose
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: This page of notes about the problems of American capitalism is one of several manuscripts that Whitman wrote with the intention of delivering a lecture on what he called "the tramp and strike questions." Though the lecture never materialized, a short essay based on the manuscripts was published under the title "The Tramp and Strike Questions. Part of a Lecture proposed, (never deliver'd.) " in Specimen Days & Collect (1882–83). It was later reprinted in Complete Prose Works (1892).

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