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Whitman Archive Title: Note Book
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.04605
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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: 2
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Folder: [1860], Boston notebook
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Series: Notebooks
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Date: 1860
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Genre: prose, poetry
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Physical Description: 34 leaves, handwritten
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Content:
A notebook from Whitman's trip to Boston in March through May of 1860. While most
of the notebook is devoted to names, addresses, and notes from his
visit, the first two leaves (surfaces 3 and 4) contain notes related to
the printing of the 1860 edition of
Leaves of
Grass
, which he was in Boston to oversee. The printing notes
refer to possible ornamentations for specific pages of
Leaves
and reference other books as examples
of possible ornamentation and typography. Edward Grier provides
information about the specific books that Whitman mentions, noting
similarities between them and
Leaves
(
Notebook and Unpublished Prose
Manuscripts
[New York: New York University Press, 1984]
1:419-421). Images of blank versos for several of the pages are
currently unavailable.
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