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Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the British Library
Original record created by the Walt Whitman Archive and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. Encoded Archival Description completed with the assistance of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the University of Nebraska Research Council, the Institute for Museum and Library Services, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Title: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the British Library
- Collection Number: brl.ead01
- Creator: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
- Repository: The British Library
- Abstract:
This catalog was created by the Walt Whitman Archive from a digital image of the original manuscript and from information found on the British Library's online Manuscripts Catalogue. The original manuscripts are held at the British Library.
- Scope and Content:
The British Library has one Walt Whitman poetry manuscript and one Walt Whitman prose manuscript, both described below.
- Biographical Information:
For additional biographical information, see "Walt Whitman", by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price, and the chronology of Whitman's Life.
- Subjects:
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts
- Poets, American--19th century
Individual items at this repository
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Whitman Archive Title: O Star of France
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Whitman Archive ID: brl.00001
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Repository ID: Add 39168 (I.10)
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Date: 1871
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 5 leaves, handwritten
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Full draft, heavily revised, of "O Star of France," which was first published in the June 1872 issue of
The Galaxy.
It was subsequently reprinted in
As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free
(1872) and
Two Rivulets
(1876). A revised version appeared in
Leaves of Grass
(1881–82) and in
Leaves of Grass
(1891–92). The poem's title is repeated on the verso of the final leaf. Images of the other versos are forthcoming.
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Whitman Archive Title: My Book and I
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Whitman Archive ID: brl.00002
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Repository ID: Ashley MS 5133
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Date: 1886 or 1887
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 22 leaves, handwritten
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Content:
A late-stage draft, with printer's notes, of the essay "My Book and I," which was first published in
Lippincott's
in January 1887. Much of this essay would later appear, slightly altered, in "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads," published in Whitman's
November Boughs
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