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Catalog of a Walt Whitman Literary Manuscript in Special Collections and University Archives, Robert L. Carothers Library, University of Rhode Island
Original records created by the University of Rhode Island; 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.
- Title: Catalog of a Walt Whitman Literary Manuscript in Special Collections and University Archives, Robert L. Carothers Library, University of Rhode Island
- Collection Number: uri.ead01
- Creator: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
- Repository: Special Collections and University Archives
- Abstract:
This electronic catalog was created from catalogue records created by Special Collections and University Archives, Robert L. Carothers Library, and obtained by the Walt Whitman Archive. The original papers and catalogue records are held at the University of Rhode Island in Special Collections and University Archives, Robert L. Carothers Library.
- Scope and Content:
Special Collections and University Archives, Robert L. Carothers Library, University of Rhode Island holds one Whitman prose manuscript, 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: [There seems to be quite]
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Whitman Archive ID: uri.00001
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Repository ID: PS3211 A1 1865
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Repository Title: Walt Whitman's Drum Taps
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Date: 1865–1882
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
A prose manuscript fragment tipped in a first edition copy of
Drum Taps
(1865). Though no lines from this manuscript can be traced directly to Whitman's published prose, this fragment shares a strong thematic connection with "The Real War will never get in the Books,"
Specimen Days & Collect
(1882–1883).
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