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Whitman Archive Title: The appearance
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.05302
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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: Spectacle Inside the Opera House
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Series: Manuscripts
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Date: 1890-1891
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten
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Content:
This item appears to be a fragmentary, earlier draft of "A Visit to the Opera," a manuscript article now at
Huntington Library
in San Marino, California. No published version of the article has been found, though both manuscripts bear some similarities with a piece that Whitman published in
Life Illustrated
on November 10, 1855, entitled "The Opera." Edward Grier, in his discussion of these and other related manuscripts, speculates that the manuscripts represent a revision of the published article, which Whitman perhaps submitted for publication sometime after late 1858. (See
Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts
[New York: New York University Press, 1984] 1:388-397.)
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