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Whitman Archive Title: For funeral piece
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.07041
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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:
This manuscript, significantly titled "For Funeral piece A.L." ("For
Funeral piece A.L."), is composed of a short note which can be read as a
general outline of the poem "When Lilacs Last
in the Dooryard Bloom'd," followed by some lines of poetry
that bear resemblance with section eleven of the same poem. The poem was
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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