Content:
Draft, lightly corrected, of "If I Should Need to Name, O Western World!"
with a brief note containing instructions to the printer. These were
probably sent to the Philadelphia
Press
, where, on October 26,
1884, the poem was first published. Whitman later retitled the poem
"Election Day,
November, 1884."
Whitman Archive Title: If I Should Need To Name, O Western World
Content:
Clipped copy of "If I Should
Need to Name, O Western World" from the Camden, New Jersey,
Post
, October 28,
1884, with a note in Whitman's hand. This poem was later
published with the title "Election Day, November, 1884."
