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Literary Manuscripts

Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

Today At The Peak

  • Whitman Archive Title: [To-Day at the peak]
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.00360
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress
  • Box: 1
  • Folder: Glad the Jaunts for the Known
  • Series: Manuscripts
  • Date: about 1888
  • Genre: poetry, correspondence
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28 cm x 21 cm, handwritten
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  • Content: Draft of one or possibly two poems beginning "To-Day at the peak" and "Glad the jaunts for the known." Lines from this manuscript were published posthumously as "[Glad the Jaunts for the Known]." On the verso is a letter, dated January, 1888, from James G. Bennett, editor of the New York Herald .

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