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And there

  • Whitman Archive Title: And there
  • Whitman Archive ID: duk.00275
  • Repository ID: MS q 29
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
  • Date: between 1850 and 1860
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: Fragment describing a "negro at daylight" giving "the Carolina yell," possibly related to the poem first published in 1856 as "Poem of Salutation" and later titled "Salut Au Monde!" Based on the handwriting, Edward Grier dates this manuscript fragment to the 1850s ( Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:313). This scrap has been attached by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with "'The Scout'," "Drops of my Blood," and "In a poem make the."
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