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Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Collection of the Salisbury House Foundation

Original records created by the Salisbury House; revised and expanded by the Walt Whitman Archive and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. Encoded Archival Description completed with the assistance of the National Endowment for the Humanities.




Individual items at this repository

  • Whitman Archive Title: In those Leaves
  • Whitman Archive ID: sal.00005
  • Repository ID: 2010.9.261.a-b
  • Date: about 1876
  • Genre: prose
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: A draft fragment of Whitman's "Preface, 1876, to the two-volume Centennial Edition of L. of G. and 'Two Rivulets,'" originally published in Two Rivulets (1876). Whitman included this preface in his Complete Prose Works (1892). This manuscript draft is comprised of three scraps of paper pasted together to make one leaf. On the verso of one of these scraps is a note Whitman made regarding his deteriorating health, which bears no discernible connection to Whitman's published works. This manuscript is catalogued with an envelope addressed to Herbert Gilchrist, postmarked 28 January 189[1].

  • Whitman Archive Title: [In the main I]
  • Whitman Archive ID: sal.00003
  • Repository ID: 2010.9.262
  • Date: about 1891
  • Genre: prose
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: Draft fragment of "American National Literature," first published in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891). Whitman included this piece of literary criticism in Complete Prose Works (1892).

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