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Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

To The States To Identify The 16th 17th Or 18th Presidentiad

  • Whitman Archive Title: A Past Presidentiad, and one to come also
  • Whitman Archive ID: uva.00214
  • 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
  • Folder: 50-51
  • Date: 1857-1859
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten
  • View Images: 1 | 2
  • Content: Whitman wrote and deleted the date 1858 in blue pencil in the upper right corner of the first leaf, and inscribed the same date in normal pencil in the lower left corner of the second leaf. This poem became "To The States, To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad" in the cluster "Messenger Leaves" in the 1860 Leaves of Grass . Ungrouped in 1867, it was transferred in 1872 to a "Leaves of Grass" group within the main body. In 1881 it was finally transferred to the cluster "By the Roadside". Images of the versos are unavailable.
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