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Literary Manuscripts

Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

Begin A Long Jaunt West

  • Whitman Archive Title: Trip to Kansas &c
  • Whitman Archive ID: ucb.00081
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
  • Box: 1
  • Folder: 49
  • Repository Title: Begin a Long Jaunt West
  • Date: 1879–1882
  • Genre: prose
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: Notes with the heading, "Trip to Kansas &c," portions of which Whitman revised and used in "Begin a Long Jaunt West," first published in Specimen Days & Collect (1882–1883) and collected in Complete Prose Works (1892). The verso of this manuscript includes a miscellaneous list, which Whitman identifies as "travelers, merchants, Leadville folk."

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