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After the Supper and Talk
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Whitman Archive Title: After the Supper and Talk
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00004
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
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Box: 26
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Folder: After the Supper and Talk (1888). A.MS. drafts
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Series: Literary File
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Date: between 1884 and 1888
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Genre: poetry, prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28 x 25.5 cm, handwritten
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Content:
Signed draft of the poem "After the Supper and Talk," which was first submitted to
Harper's
in 1885 but was rejected. It was later published in
Lippincott's Magazine
in November, 1887. This manuscript draft, however, may well have been intended for neither journal because of the reference to "volume" in the bracketed note. In
November Boughs
(1888) Whitman used "After the Supper and Talk" as the concluding poem in the volume; it was followed by numerous prose pieces. On the reverse of this manuscript leaf is pasted a proof sheet from the poem eventually titled "Song of the Exposition," with one correction.
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