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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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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts in the Manuscripts Department, Houghton Library, Harvard University
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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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Content:
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
. This particular draft includes passages cut from letterpress proofs and is bound with a
letter to Andrew and Thomas Rome, dated 15 March 1870. Most of the verso images are unavailable.
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