The mob, the trial of Warren Hastings

Whitman Archive Title: The mob, the trial of Warren Hastings
Whitman Archive ID: duk.00141
Repository ID: MS q 36
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Date: 1870-1888
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A manuscript with heavily-edited draft lines from Whitman's essay "Notes (such as they are) founded on Elias Hicks," which first appeared in November Boughs in 1888. The essay was also included in Complete Prose Works in 1892. Hicks (1748-1830) was a Quaker preacher and abolitionist who Whitman greatly admired.