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Whitman Archive Title: identical with the
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Whitman Archive ID: duk.00878
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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: Before or early in 1855
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Genre: prose, poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
Prose notes that relate to "I Sing the Body Electric," first published as the fifth poem in the 1855 edition of
Leaves of Grass
. The first line of the manuscript may relate to information Whitman used to write the article "One of the Lessons Bordering Broadway: The Egyptian Museum," published in
Life Illustrated
on December 8, 1855. This manuscript is pasted to a larger document along with another scrap that includes information used in that article. Both manuscript scraps were probably written shortly before or early in 1855, though the notes on the backing sheet to which they have been pasted may have been written at a later date. The reverse side of the leaf is part of a manuscript (duk.00066) discussing the conception of time.
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