The Soul's Procession | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: The Soul's Procession
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00121
Repository ID: #5604
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
Box: 1
Folder: 93
Repository Title: The Soul's Procession
Date: 1869-1871
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 16 leaves, handwritten; printed
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Content: This handmade notebook contains notes for a projected poem, "The Soul's Procession," as well as a newspaper clipping attached to the third leaf, entitled "The Steamship Pereire Disaster" and dated January 28, 1869. Whitman never finished or published this poem, but various passages are similar to ideas and language in the poem "Passage to India," first published in the 1871-1872 edition of Leaves of Grass and retained in all subsequent editions.