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Railroad Poem
Whitman Archive Title:
[Railroad poem]
Whitman Archive ID:
loc.00147
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:
40
Folder:
Literary, Undated, Railroad Poem
Series:
Notes and Notebooks
Date:
undated
Genre:
poetry, prose
Physical Description:
1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
Notes for several ideas for poems, including the railroad, mines, "corn and meat," and "the Man's hand and the Woman's hand." At the bottom is a longer prose note describing Whitman's goals for a large work about the American West.
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