Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

Whitman Archive Title: [dear to me]

Whitman Archive ID: loc.00171

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, The States and Their Resources

Series: Notes and Notebooks

Date: undated

Genre: poetry

Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten

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Content: a draft line of poetry describing the land that is "dear" to the poet. Whitman had "Always the South" in mind as he composed the line, though this phrase was deleted.

Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

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