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Whitman Archive Title: But the time speeds
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Whitman Archive ID: ihm.00001
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Iowa Historical Museum (Des Moines)
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Date: 1875–1886
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten; printed
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Content:
Scraps of paper attached to a larger sheet to create one leaf. Together the scraps form a draft fragment of "Abraham Lincoln," a short essay that first appeared as "Dear to Democracy" in
Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln
(1886), a compilation of essays edited by Allen Thorndike Rice. Though Whitman was not fond of this essay, he reprinted it in
November Boughs
(1888) before including the final version in
Complete Prose Works
(1892). For more information on this manuscript, including a complete transcription, see Ed Folsom, "Holograph Page of Whitman's 'Abraham Lincoln,'"
Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
5.3 (Winter 1988), 47–48.
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