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Whitman Archive Title: Chronological
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Whitman Archive ID: duk.00066
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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Date: Between 1854 and 1860
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, with 2 pasted-on attachments, handwritten
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This manuscript consists of a backing sheet with two smaller manuscript scraps pasted on, which together, at one time, likely formed part of Whitman's cultural geography scrapbook. The pasted-on manuscript scraps were originally part of the notebook "women" (loc.05589), which probably dates from about 1854 to about 1860. Prose notes written on the back of the bottom paste-on (duk.00878) relate to what became section 2 of "I Sing the Body Electric," first published as the fifth poem in the 1855 edition of
Leaves of Grass
. Both manuscript scraps were probably written shortly before or early in 1855, though the notes on the backing sheet to which they have been pasted may have been written at a later date.
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