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Whitman Archive Title: [The Dead Emerson]
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Whitman Archive ID: uva.00057
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Repository ID: #3829
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts at the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia
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Box: 1
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Folder: 26
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Repository Title: The Dead Emerson
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Date: 1882
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten; printed
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Content:
This manuscript, entitled "The Dead Emerson," contains some handwritten notes
about Whitman's last visit (which, according to the manuscript, took place in the
winter of 1881) to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and a clipping from a printed piece which
is almost equivalent (except for a short phrase) to "A Visit, at the Last, to R. W. Emerson" as published
in
Specimen Days
in 1882
(retained, within
Specimen Days
and with the same title, in the
Complete
Prose Works
, published in 1892). The clipping included in this
manuscript was taken from the section " Emerson as He Looks Today" which appeared within the
article "How I Still Get Around at
60, and Take Notes" published in the
Critic
on December 3, 1881.
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