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Content:
Manuscript known only from a transcription published in
Wake
7 (Autumn 1948), 10. At that time, the manuscript was in the private collection of Milton Einstein; its current whereabouts are unknown. The contents of the manuscript set forth the "theory . . . that there are two natures in Walt Whitman," one full of "benevolence tenderness and sympathy" and another "far sterner," encompassing "things evil." Whitman wrote this passage for Maurice Bucke's 1883 biography
Walt Whitman
(Philadelphia: David McKay), where the words are put in the mouth of an unnamed acquaintance, a "distant relative" of the poet (56).
Content:
Three-page draft of "The Attempted Official
Suppression," a section of Part 2, Chapter 1, "History of Leaves of Grass," in Richard
Maurice Bucke's 1883 biography,
Walt
Whitman.
Whitman Archive Title: Here is a list of the immediate family
Content:
On one side of this leaf is a list of Whitman's family members, which Whitman wrote for inclusion in the introduction to Richard Maurice Bucke's 1883 biography,
Walt Whitman.
The writing on the reverse side is in both Whitman's and Bucke's hands and has been cancelled. It consists of draft versions of the heading for William Douglas O'Connor's
The Good Gray Poet
(1866), which was reprinted in the biography.
