Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

Whitman Archive Title: You and I

Whitman Archive ID: uva.00181

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: 3 leaves, all leaves 21 x 13 cm, handwritten

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Content: Originally numbered 84, this poem appeared in the 1860 Leaves of Grass as main section 7 of "Enfans d'Adam," and was retitled within the group "We Two—How Long We Were Fool'd" in 1867.

Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

We Two How Long We Were Foold