[A little sum laid aside for burial money—a few clapboards around]

Whitman Archive Title: [A little sum laid aside for burial money—a few clapboards around]
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00248
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: 88
Date: about 1855
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 17 x 19 cm, handwritten
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Content: This is a poetic rendition of a long sentence in the preface to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. The prose sentence begins, "Beyond the independence of a little sum laid aside for burial-money, and of a few clapboards around..."