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How Would it Do

  • Whitman Archive Title: How Would it Do
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.05173
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress
  • Box: 1
  • Folder: Undated, on the American Idiom
  • Series: Notes and Memoranda
  • Date: 1880-1885
  • Genre: prose
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: This manuscript contains a draft with trial titles and general ideas for the essay "Slang in America," published in the North American Review (November 1885). The piece was later reprinted in November Boughs (1888) and was retained in Complete Prose Works (1892).
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