As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors

Whitman Archive Title: As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00178
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.
Box: 26
Folder: As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors (1885). Printed Copy—Camden Post, May 15, 1885.
Series: Literary File
Date: May 15, 1885
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 54.5 x 36 cm, handwritten
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Content: A page of The Post , Camden, N.J., 15 May 1885. Written in pencil in the margin at the top of front page are five words in Whitman's hand: "As one by one Withdraw." The Library of Congress's description of the item mentions that page three of the newspaper includes a reprint from Harper's Weekly of "As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors"; however, only one page of the newspaper is currently in the folder. "As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors" was later published as "Death of General Grant."