There will never come a time

Whitman Archive Title: There will never come a time
Whitman Archive ID: brn.00004
Repository ID: Ms.30.94
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, John Hay Library, Brown University
Repository Title: There will never come a time : prose draft, [ca. 1840-1890]
Date: 1871-1875
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: This prose manuscript fragment, heavily revised, appears to be part of an early draft of the essay "Robert Burns," first published in the January 25, 1875 issue of Our Land and Time . Whitman revised and republished it several times. In Complete Prose Works (1892) the essay was titled "Robert Burns as Poet and Person." The draft is written on the reverse of the bottom half of a report by Secretary of the Treasury, George Boutwell, of the public debt as of January 31, 1871.