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Literary Manuscripts

Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

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  • Whitman Archive Title: Religious Canticles
  • Whitman Archive ID: duk.00282
  • Repository ID: MS q 31
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
  • Date: about 1860
  • Genre: poetry, prose
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: On one side are notes regarding a projected group of religious poems and their significance to other Leaves of Grass poems. On the reverse is a partial draft of the 1860 poem "Calamus 9," which was dropped from subsequent editions of Leaves of Grass. This scrap has been attached by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with "Secrets.—Secreta."

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