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Whitman Archive Title: For Dem Vistas
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Whitman Archive ID: tex.00458
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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
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Series: Works, 1846-1913 and undated
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Date: 1882 or before
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
A brief paragraph suggesting that the unifying motif of a projected volume of miscellaneous prose pieces should be various aspects of nature viewed from the perspective of democracy. Although Whitman eventually titled his collection
Specimen Days
(1882–83), the present manuscript uses the working title "Mulleins & Bumble Bees," one of many that he considered over the rather long period during which he contemplated publication. In "Cedar-Plums—Names," one of the short essays in the collection, he discusses some of his difficulties with coherence and titling.
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