O Captain! my Captain! | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: O Captain! my Captain!
Whitman Archive ID: brn.00001
Repository: Catalog of a Walt Whitman Literary Manuscript in the John Hay Papers, John Hay Library, Brown University
Series: Series 2. Correspondence
Repository Title: Whitman, Walt to Hay, John
Date: March 9, 1887
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A signed, dated, handwritten copy of "O Captain! My Captain!," which was published first in 1865. The manuscript was recopied by Whitman, without changes from the version published in 1881, at the request of John Hay, who wrote Whitman in 1887 to request an autograph copy of the poem. The manuscript is stored with a cover letter from Whitman to Hay, which requests payment of $22. A letter from Hay to Whitman dated March 12, 1887 , acknowledges receipt of the manuscript and sends a check for thirty dollars in payment. An image of the manuscript's verso is currently unavailable.