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Literary Manuscripts

Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

The Ballroom Was Swept

  • Whitman Archive Title: [The ball-room was swept]
  • Whitman Archive ID: tex.00011
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin
  • Box: 1
  • Folder: 2
  • Series: Works, 1846-1913 and undated
  • Repository Title: The Ballroom was swept and the floor white…
  • Date: about 1860
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: Three lines of a poem beginning "The ball-room was swept, and the floor white." The relationship between these lines and Whitman's published poetry is unknown. On the verso is a fragment of an apparent letter, which Edwin Haviland Miller dates August 1860, to Thayer and Eldridge, concerning their loan to Henry Clapp of $200.

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