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Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Liverpool Central 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 Liverpool Central Library
- Collection Number: lcl.ead01
- Creator: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
- Repository: The Liverpool Central Library
- Abstract:
This catalog was created by the Walt Whitman Archive from digital images of the original manuscripts. The original manuscripts are held at the Liverpool Central Library.
- Scope and Content:
The Liverpool Central Library has one poetry manuscript and three prose manuscripts, 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: The Dalliance of the Eagles
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Whitman Archive ID: lcl.00002
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Repository ID: 811 WAL/5
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Repository Title: The Dalliance of the Eagles by Walt Whitman
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Date: 1880
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, printed; handwritten
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Content:
Corrected galley proof of "The
Dalliance of the Eagles," first published in
Cope's Tobacco Plant
in
November 1880.
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Whitman Archive Title: [To proof reader]
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Whitman Archive ID: lcl.00005
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Repository ID: 811 WAL/1/1
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Repository Title: Three Young Men's Deaths
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Date: 1878
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
"Three Young Men's Deaths" was a piece that first appeared in April 1879 in
Cope's Tobacco Plant
, a trade magazine published in Liverpool, England, although Whitman wrote the piece in late 1878. He would later republish it in
Specimen Days & Collect
(1882–83) and
Complete Prose Works
(1892). This manuscript is a draft of the short introductory paragraph that appeared before the descriptions of the three young men, and includes a brief note to the proof reader at
Cope's
; the introduction remained unchanged in subsequent publications.
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Whitman Archive Title: Erastus Haskell
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Whitman Archive ID: lcl.00003
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Repository ID: 811 WAL/1/2
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Repository Title: Erastus Haskell
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Date: 1878
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
A draft of the first of three sections of "Three Young Men's Deaths," a piece that first appeared in April 1879 in
Cope's Tobacco Plant
of Liverpool, England. The piece would later be republished in
Specimen Days
and
Complete Prose Works
. The bracketed portion at the top of the manuscript was included in the original publication, and in a slightly altered form in subsequent publications. Whitman claims to be copying the text directly from a letter he sent to his mother on
28 July 1863
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Whitman Archive Title: Three Young Men's Deaths
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Whitman Archive ID: lcl.00004
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Repository ID: 811 WAL/1/5
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Repository Title: Three Young Men's Deaths
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Date: 1878
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, printed; handwritten
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2
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Content:
A galley proof with Whitman's handwritten corrections for a portion of "Three Young Men's Deaths," which was first published in
Cope's Tobacco Plant
of Liverpool, England, in April 1879. The piece would later be republished in
Specimen Days
and
Complete Prose Works
.
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