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Literary Manuscripts

Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

This Singular Young Man Was

  • Whitman Archive Title: This singular young man
  • Whitman Archive ID: duk.00120
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
  • Repository Title: "This singular young man was unnoted for any strong qualities"
  • Date: 1840s or early 1850s
  • Genre: prose
  • Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
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  • Content: This manuscript was first printed, in two separate segments, in Richard Maurice Bucke's Notes and Fragments (London, Ontario: A. Talbot & Co., 1899, 114–115, 116–117. Bucke dates the manuscript to the 1840s. It is possibly a draft of an early piece of fiction, but no connection to Whitman's known published works has been established.

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