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Whitman Archive Title: The Whale-boat
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Whitman Archive ID: uva.00117
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Repository ID: #3829-i
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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: 2
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Folder: 23
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Date: late 1850s
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 cm x 12 cm, handwritten
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Content:
This manuscript contains notes about whales that mirror a passage about whales
published in "Song of Myself".
A direct relationship between this manuscript and Whitman's published work is unknown,
although a possible relationship also exists with drafts of the poem "The Sleepers" in which Whitman
was working with the idea of a whale being harpooned. These notes may be a
continuation of notes written on two separate scraps and held at Duke University
(The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book,
Manuscript, and Special Collections Library), "The Whale," MS q 88.
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