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Whitman Archive Title: Annex at 69
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Whitman Archive ID: usc.00003
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts in the Joel A. Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Rare Books & Special Collections, Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina.
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Date: about 1888
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, 9.2 x 21.3 cm, handwritten
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Content:
This manuscript contains titles for a contemplated cluster of poems, "Annex at 69" and "Fancies at Navesink & other
pieces 1883 to 88." The poem sequence "Fancies at Navesink" first appeared in the
August
1885 issue of
Nineteenth
Century
. The eight poems from this sequence were then reprinted
in a section of
November
Boughs
entitled "Sands at Seventy" in 1888, which then became an annex to
Leaves of Grass
that same
year. The poems reappeared under the heading "Fancies at Navesink," although still part of
"Sands at Seventy,"
in 1891. The
manuscript was matted, along with a Frederick Gutekunst
photograph of Whitman. Because of the matting, the verso of the manuscript
is not accessible.
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