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Catalog of the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts in the Manuscripts Department, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Original records created by the Manuscripts Department, Houghton Library, Harvard University; revised and expanded by the Walt Whitman Archive and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. Encoded Archival Description completed with the assistance of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the University of Nebraska Research Council, the Institute for Museum and Library Services, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Title: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts in the Manuscripts Department, Houghton Library, Harvard University
- Collection Number: har.ead01
- Creator: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
- Repository: Houghton Library
- Abstract:
This electronic catalog was created from the original catalog records obtained by The Walt Whitman Archive. The original papers and catalog records are held in the Manuscripts Department, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
- Scope and Content:
The Manuscripts Department, Houghton Library at Harvard University holds several Whitman items, including letters, photographs, notes, books, and drafts of prose and poetry. For this catalog, only those items deemed poetry manuscripts are described at the item-level.
- Biographical Information:
For additional biographical information, see "Walt Whitman", by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price, and the chronology of Whitman's Life.
- Subjects:
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts
- Poets, American--19th century
Individual items at this repository
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Whitman Archive Title: Bardic Symbols
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Whitman Archive ID: har.00003
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Repository ID: Autograph File
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Date: about 1860
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten
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This is a partial, late draft, with minor revisions, of "Bardic Symbols," first
published in the April
1860 issue of the
Atlantic Monthly.
The poem was later revised and published
under the title "As I Ebb'd
with the Ocean of Life." Two of the manuscript leaves are stored
with a letter to the editor, James Russell Lowell, dated October 2,
1861; the other leaf is stored separately.
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Whitman Archive Title: Passage to India
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Whitman Archive ID: har.00004
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Repository ID: MS Lowell 15
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Date: about 1870
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 21 leaves, handwritten
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A complete draft, with extensive revisions, of "Passage to India," a poem first published in
1871 in a small volume of the same name. "Passage to India" was later included as a supplement to the 1871 edition of
Leaves of Grass
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letter to Andrew and Thomas Rome, dated 15 March 1870. Most of the verso images are unavailable.
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Whitman Archive Title: Spain
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Whitman Archive ID: har.00002
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Repository ID: bMS Am 1545 (1)
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Date: March 16, 1873
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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This is an unsigned draft of the poem "Spain," which was first published in 1873. The poem
was later titled "Spain,
1873-74."
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Whitman Archive Title: Grand is the Seen
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Whitman Archive ID: har.00001
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Repository ID: bMS Am 1343 (546)
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Date: about 1891
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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This is an unsigned draft of "Grand Is the Seen," a poem first published in
Good-Bye My Fancy
(1891).
Good-Bye My Fancy
was then included as the second annex to the Deathbed edition of
Leaves of Grass
(1891-92).
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