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I do not expect to see myself

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  • Title: I do not expect to see myself
  • Date: 1870s
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: tex.00023
  • Source: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin. Transcribed from digital images of the original. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: The date of this manuscript is unknown, though it seems likely that it is from the 1870s based on the handwriting. In addition, in the 1870s, Whitman repeatedly complained about how he was treated by American magazines. He sometimes exaggerated his neglect, as in the third-person account "Walt Whitman's Actual American Position," West Jersey Press (January 26, 1876). He argued there that he had been all but banned from American magazines. We have not identified a direct relationship between this manuscript and any of Whitman's published writings, if any exists. The manuscript is pasted down, so no image of the verso is available.
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "I do not expect to see myself." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 19 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: tex.00023.xml (TEI)

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  [begin leaf 1 recto] I do He does not expect to see myself  
 in the present [illegible] magazines,  
  pulpits, reviews, schools, pulpits  
 and legislatures—but presently  
 I expect to see myself  
 in magazines, schools, and  
 legislatures—or that my friends  
 after me will see me there,
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