[Was it thought that all was]

Whitman Archive Title: [Was it thought that all was]
Whitman Archive ID: bos.00005
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Alice and Rollo G. Silver Collection, Department of Special Collections, Boston University
Box: 1
Repository Title: Notes for Lecture
Date: 1860-1869
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: This manuscript appears to contain notes for a lecture, though it is uncertain whether Whitman ever used them for a lecture or a published prose work. Some of the phrasing in the last clause, regarding exiles, is echoed in the 1856 poem "Liberty Poem for Asia, Africa, Europe, America, Australia, Cuba, and The Archipelagoes of the Sea," which eventually became "To a Foil'd European Revolutionaire." "Notes for Lecture" is written at the bottom of the page in an unknown hand.