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To a Locomotive in Winter

  • Whitman Archive Title: To a Locomotive in Winter
  • Whitman Archive ID: bpl.00006
  • Repository ID: Whitman Mss.1
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Walt Whitman Collection, Rare Books and Manuscripts Department, Boston Public Library
  • Repository Title: Ten pieces of manuscript
  • Date: about 1876
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
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  • Content: This is a two-page draft of "To a Locomotive in Winter," first published in the 19 February 1876 issue of the New York Daily Tribune . It appears that originally the two leaves were pasted together as one piece, but have since come apart. On the verso of page two is a draft of an unpublished poem entitled "The Soul and the Poet," which may be a draft of the poem "Come, said my Soul," the epigraph for the 1876, 1881–1882, and 1891–1892 editions of Leaves of Grass .
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