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Whitman Archive Title: To the Future
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Whitman Archive ID: hun.00008
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Repository ID: HM 11205
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
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Repository Title: To a common prostitute
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Date: about 1860
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
Draft of a poem titled "To the Future." Although the poem was unpublished in its entirety, the seventh line was used in the poem "To My Soul," which was first published in the 1860 edition of
Leaves of Grass
and later retitled "As the Time Draws Nigh." On the reverse is a draft of "To a Common Prostitute."
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