New Mexico Religion Catholic

Whitman Archive Title: New Mexico Religion Catholic
Whitman Archive ID: loc.05342
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress
Box: 2
Folder: On the Western United States
Series: Notes and Memoranda
Date: 1883
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A lot of the language of this scrap is taken from page 1238 of Harper's Statistical Gazetteer (1855). In 1883, Whitman was asked to compose a poem for the 333rd anniversary of the founding of Santa Fe, NM. He responded with a letter that was published in the Philadelphia Press August 5, 1883. It was reprinted in the section of November Boughs (1888), entitled "The Spanish Element in Our Nationality."