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Whitman Archive Title: My Book and I
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Whitman Archive ID: brl.00002
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Repository ID: Ashley MS 5133
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the British Library
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Date: 1886 or 1887
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 22 leaves, handwritten
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Content:
A late-stage draft, with printer's notes, of the essay "My Book and I," which was first published in
Lippincott's
in January 1887. Much of this essay would later appear, slightly altered, in "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads," published in Whitman's
November Boughs
in 1888.
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