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[September & October 1863]
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Whitman Archive Title: [September & October 1863]
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00149
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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: 1
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Folder: Address Books 1863, Sept.–Oct.
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Series: Diaries, Diary Notes, and Address Books
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Date: 1863
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Genre: poetry, prose
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Physical Description: about 21 leaves, 10 x 7 cm, handwritten
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Content:
A notebook bound by Whitman and tied with red ribbon. It contains
addresses of many soldiers hospitalized at Armory Square Hospital in
Washington. Short case histories follow most of the names. Also contains
trial lines for the poem "Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night," first
published in 1865 (see images 7, 11-14 and 16 for material related to
"Vigil Strange I Kept
on the Field One Night").
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