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Literary Manuscripts

Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

Mannahatta My Citys Fit And Noble

  • Whitman Archive Title: Mannahatta
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.00214
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
  • Box: 27
  • Folder: Mannahatta (1888). Newspaper Clipping.
  • Series: Literary File
  • Date: about 1888
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, 20 x 14.5 cm, handwritten
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  • Content: A newspaper clipping of the poem "Mannahatta" on a larger page with corrections and notes in Whitman's hand. This was the second poem that title that Whitman had published (the first "Mannahatta," which begins with the words "I was asking...," first appeared in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass ). This particular poem was first published in the New York Herald on February 27, 1888 and was later included in the Deathbed edition of Leaves .

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