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Whitman Archive Title: In mem. of A.L.
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.07040
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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: Abraham Lincoln
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Series: Manuscripts
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Date: 1865
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Genre: prose, poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
The notes contained in this manuscript, significantly titled "In Mem. of
A.L." ("In Memory of Abraham Lincoln") are focused on the sense of
collective grieving for the death of Lincoln, a founding theme for the
poem "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard
Bloom'd," initially published in
Sequel to Drum Taps
, issued by Gibson Brothers in the fall
of 1865 and bound with
Drum
Taps
. The poem made its first appearance in the text of
Leaves of Grass
in 1867.
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