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Whitman Archive Title: Calamus-Leaves
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Whitman Archive ID: uva.00310
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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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Folder: 50-51
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Date: 1857-1859
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, 15 x 9 cm, handwritten
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Content:
On white wove leaf, 15 x 9 cm, in black ink, with the title "Live Oak, with Moss" stricken out
and "Calamus-Leaves" added in
light brown ink, and with one small revision in blue pencil. Whitman numbered this
page 1 in pencil. The first section of the original sequence "Live Oak, with Moss," this became
section 14 of "Calamus" in
1860 and was permanently retitled "Not Heat Flames up and Consumes" in the 1867
Leaves
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