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Preface Two Rivulets
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Whitman Archive Title: Preface Two Rivulets
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Whitman Archive ID: duk.00122
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Repository ID: MS q 62
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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: about 1876
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Genre: poetry, prose
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Physical Description: 6 leaves, handwritten
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Content:
Fragment, heavily revised, of the preface to
Two Rivulets
(1876). Several of the leaves are made of scraps pasted together,
and on the reverse of the fourth leaf is a draft fragment of the opening
lines of a poem first published in the
Galaxy
(September 1867) as "A Carol of Harvest, for 1867," which was
ultimately titled "The Return
of the Heroes,"
Leaves of Grass
(1881–1882).
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