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British in China

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  • Title: British in China
  • Date: Undated
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: duk.00684
  • Source: Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Transcribed from digital images of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: Edward Grier asserts that this note was "almost certainly" composed in 1857 (Walt Whitman: Notebooks and Unpublished Manuscripts, ed. Edward F. Grier [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 5:1977). At one point, this manuscript likely formed part of Whitman's cultural geography scrapbook.
  • Contributors to digital file: Lauren Grewe Nicole Gray Ty Alyea Matt Cohen Kevin McMullen Ashlyn Stewart
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "British in China." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 23 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: duk.00684.xml (TEI)

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Textual Feature Appearance
Whitman's hand blue double overline and underline
Highlighting yellow background with top and bottom border
Paste-on gray box with black borders
Laid in white box with black borders
Erasure white text with dark gray background
Overwritten brown with strikethrough
[begin surface 1]

British in China

Hong Kong (Elias Pierson tells me) is an island, something like sStaten Island in size—Of this the British have exclusive possession, and have fortified it, and keep regiments of soldiers there [begin surface 2]
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