Content:
This manuscript is a draft of the essay "The Dead Carlyle" printed in the
Literary World
on February 12, 1881 and,
with the slightly different title of "The Death of Carlyle" in the
Critic
, on February 12, 1881. Parts of the essay were used for
"Death of Thomas Carlyle"
published in
Specimen Days
in
1882 (later retained in the
Complete Prose Works
, published in 1892).
Content:
Incomplete printer's copy of "The Death of
Carlyle," which was published in the February 12,
1881, issue of the
Critic
. It
also appeared, under the title "The Dead
Carlyle," in the Boston
Literary
World
on the same date. It was later reprinted as "Death of Thomas Carlyle" in
Specimen Days & Collect
(1882–83). The accompanying authentication certificate, signed
by
Critic
editor Jeannette Gilder,
mentions that the missing final page of the manuscript bore Whitman's
signature.
