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Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Huntington Public Library, Huntington, New York
Original records created by the Huntington Public Library; 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 Kreible 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 Literary Manuscripts in the Huntington Public Library, Huntington, New York
- Collection Number: hpl.ead01
- Creator: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
- Repository: Huntington Public Library
- Abstract:
This catalog was created, in part, from digital images of the original manuscripts obtained by The Walt Whitman Archive. The original papers and catalog records are held at the Huntington Public Library.
- Scope and Content:
The Huntington Public Library in Huntington, New York, has four items written by Walt Whitman: a letter, a postcard, a poetry manuscript (with a verso letter), and a prose manuscript. This catalog includes item-level descriptions of only the poetry and prose manuscripts.
- 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: We know of no beginning in universal literature
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Whitman Archive ID: hpl.00002
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Date: about 1856
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
Draft of unpublished prose work regarding the beginnings of "universal
literature." Pasted to the page is a clipping from an unknown newspaper with
the heading "Greeks, Romans, Hebrews." This document has been titled by
other collectors "The Dawn of
Poetry" (Charles E. Feinberg)
and "Beginning of Literature,
1856" (Richard Maurice Bucke).
The relationship of this document to Whitman's published work is
unknown. An image of the verso is unavailable.
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Whitman Archive Title: Yet far sweeps your road
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Whitman Archive ID: hpl.00001
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Date: 1864
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
A draft of the poem eventually titled "Thick-Sprinkled Bunting," first published in
Drum-Taps
in 1865 as "Flag of stars, thick-sprinkled bunting." On the
reverse is an undated letter draft to an unknown editor regarding Whitman's
ambition to "start a public demand for the general exchange of prisoners of
war."
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