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Whitman Archive Title: A poem theme
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Whitman Archive ID: duk.00707
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Repository ID: Box II-5B 102
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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: 1850-1860
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten; print
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Content:
A green scrap of paper with a brief note about a potential theme for a poem: "Be happy." Below the note is pasted a newspaper clipping with a story attributed to Aristotle. There is no known connection between the note or the clipping to Whitman's published poetry or prose. An image of the verso is unavailable.
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