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Whitman Archive Title: is rougher than it was
Whitman Archive ID: duk.00786
Repository ID: MS f 129
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Date: between 1848 and 1855
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A manuscript page containing notes from Whitman's return trip from New Orleans in 1848. This page of notes, numbered "2," describes the journey across Lake Erie; Whitman's visits to Buffalo, Albany, and Niagara Falls; and his arrival at Brooklyn. The notes would later be used as the basis for an article entitled "New Orleans in 1848" that appeared in the New Orleans Picayune on January 25, 1887. The article was reprinted in November Boughs . On the reverse are manuscript notes about Whitman's family history, likely written in the mid-1850s.