Literary Manuscripts

Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

Nay Tell Me Not Today The Publishd Shame

Whitman Archive Title: Nay, Tell Me Not To-Day The Publish'd Shame
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00093
Repository: Catalog of a Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscript in the Charles N. Elliot Collection, The Library of Congress
Folder: Nay, Tell Me Not To-Day the Published Shame
Date: ca. 1873
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 4 leaves, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten
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Content: Trial lines and rough draft of the first section of the poem "Nay, Tell Me Not To-Day the Publish'd Shame," first published in the New York Daily Graphic on March 5, 1873. It was not reprinted again during Whitman's lifetime.

Whitman Archive Title: Nay tell me not to-day the publish'd shame
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00222
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: Nay Tell Me Not To-Day the Publish'd Shame (Post-1878). Clipping.
Series: Literary File
Date: about 1878
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 14 x 16 cm, printed; handwritten
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Content: Clipping from the New York Daily Graphic of 5 March 1873, with handwritten corrections.