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Whitman Archive Title: I do not compose
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Whitman Archive ID: duk.00879
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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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Repository Title: II. Song of Myself (Pages 1-23)
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Date: About 1855
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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This is a prose manuscript with an unknown connection to Whitman's published work, in which he compares writing to the composition of a "grand opera." The reverse side (duk.00787) contains lines that contributed to the poem ultimately titled "Song of Myself." In the repository, this manuscript is bound, seemingly by a collector, with a printer's copy of the 1881–82 edition of
Leaves of Grass
that contains numerous handwritten corrections by Whitman (duk.00098).
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