Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

Whitman Archive Title: [Two scenes capriciously rising out of the past]

Whitman Archive ID: loc.00039

Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Box: 26

Folder: Children of Adam. A.MS. draft.

Series: Literary File

Date: between 1850-1860

Genre: poetry

Physical Description: 1 leaf, 26.5 x 15 cm, handwritten

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Content: Portions appear to be trial lines for a poem entitled "Pictures" published posthumously, first in 1925. Other lines have an unknown relationship to Whitman's published work.

Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

Two Scenes Capriciously Rising Out Of The Past