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Whitman Archive Title: [Have I]
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Whitman Archive ID: uva.00284
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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: 88
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Date: about 1856
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, 9 x 18 cm, handwritten
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Content:
The words "Have I" at the beginning are inscribed on a small scrap of the same
paper, which Whitman pasted over some deleted words in the upper right corner that
cannot be discerned through the paper. Inscribed and extensively revised in
pencil, these verses were part of a larger set of lines before Whitman cut away
the rest. Although the page number and many words on the left side of the proof
have been cut away, the remaining words identify it as being from the "Poem of Many in One (1856)," which eventually became "By Blue Ontario's Shore." These unused but also
undeleted lines may have been intended for that poem or a number of other poems in
Leaves of Grass
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