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Literary Manuscripts

Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

Ship Ahoy!

  • Whitman Archive Title: Ship Ahoy!
  • Whitman Archive ID: aas.00001
  • Repository ID: octavo vol. 28, p.103
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscript in the Bolton-Stanwood Family Papers, American Antiquarian Society
  • Date: January 2, 1891
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: This is a late draft of "Ship Ahoy!," first published in Youth's Companion on March 12, 1891. The draft is relatively clean, though there are some differences between this manuscript and the published poem. On the verso of the manuscript is a cancelled letter to Whitman from William S. Ingram, dated December 24, 1890.

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