steamboats and vaccination | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: steamboats and vaccination
Whitman Archive ID: duk.00888
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Repository Title: Preliminary Studies for Poems
Date: Before or early in 1855
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: This manuscript includes words and ideas similar to those that appear in the prose preface to the 1855 Leaves of Grass . Edward Grier notes that the "date is probably before or early in 1855" ( Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:177). On the reverse is another prose fragment (duk.00293) that appears to be related to lines from what would later become "Song of Myself."