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Old Fellows

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  • Title: Old Fellows
  • Date: Around 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.03430
  • Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 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.
  • Contributors to digital file: Lauren Grewe Ty Alyea Nicole Gray Matt Cohen Ashlyn Stewart
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Old Fellows." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 19 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.03430.xml (TEI)

Key

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
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  • Old Fellows

  • Tennyson
  • Carlyle
  • Brougham
  • Elias Hicks
  • Jefferson
  • Victor Hugo
  • Aaron Burr
  • De Lesseps
  • Voltaire
  • Franklin
  • Whittier
  • Palmerston
  • Marshal de Mac Mahon, the 16th of 17 children
  • Washin Irving
  • Geo. Ticknor
  • Bryant
  • Geo. Catlin
  • Bancroft
  • Albert Pike
  • Cassius Clay
  • Henry Shaw of St Louis

Yet mMy 71st year has arrived and this arrives: the fifteen is my picture in it. the immediate past Fifteen months nearly all of illness or half-illness—until a tolerable good day (Aug: 6 1889) and, ^convey'd by I ^was ^have been carriaged across went over to Philadelphia, convey'd by Dr B. and Ed W. (how sunny and florid ^fresh and good look'd the river, the people, the vehicles, and Market ^and Arch streets!) and had have sat for this photo, wh' satisfies me

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