Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

Whitman Archive Title: [Simple and Fresh]

Whitman Archive ID: uva.00162

Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts at the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

Box: 1

Folder: 35; The First Dandelion

Date: around 1888

Genre: poetry

Physical Description: 1 leaf, 26 cm x 20 cm, handwritten

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Content: This manuscript contains a draft of a poem first published in the New York Herald , March 12, 1888 entitled "The First Dandelion". A note on the bottom of the page states "sent to Herald March 11" indicating the draft was likely composed around the time of publication. On the verso appears a letter to Whitman from Witcraft dated 3/8/88.