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Literary Manuscripts

Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

Names Or Terms Get Helplessly

  • Whitman Archive Title: Names or terms
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.05640
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress
  • Series: Recovered Cardboard Butterfly and Notebooks, [1847]-[circa 1863-1864]
  • Date: 1850s
  • Genre: prose
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: A manuscript in which Whitman discusses false meanings being applied to words, "as the term calling the American aborigines Indians ." Based on the handwriting, Edward Grier dates this manuscript to the 1850s ( Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 5:1664).

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