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Whitman Archive Title: Life light and
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.04601
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress
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Box: 3
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Folder: Notebook pages
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Series: Notebooks
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Date: 1860-1867
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
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Content:
A manuscript that contains various poetic lines. The line on the second
leaf that describes "the Steamship . . . and the trailing pennant of smoke"
was incorporated, in a slightly altered form, into the 1867 version of
the poem that would eventually be titled "Song of Myself." The line was retained in all subsequent
versions of the poem. The connection of the rest of the lines to
Whitman's published work is unknown. The versos of both leaves are
currently unavailable.
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