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Whitman Archive Title: [? divide into two]
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.05188
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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: 1
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Folder: Undated, on the American Idiom
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Series: Notes and Memoranda
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Date: After 1880
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
In this manuscript, Whitman considers dividing a draft essay in two. "Slang in
America," referred to here in a trial title as "Slang and Names in America," was first published in the
North American Review
(November 1885),
and then in
November Boughs
(1888).
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