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For remember that behind all
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Whitman Archive Title: For remember that behind all
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.05334
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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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Series: Recovered Cardboard Butterfly and Notebooks, [1847]-[circa 1863-1864]
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Date: Between 1845 and 1860
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
Edward Grier notes that this scrap contains ideas similar to those found in what would become section 4 of the poem eventually titled "Song of Myself." But Grier also indicates that the manuscript could be notes for a lecture that Whitman was planning (
Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts
[New York: New York University Press, 1984], 6:2047). In either case, the manuscript likely dates to the 1850s.
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