As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors

Whitman Archive Title: As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00179
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. Proof Sheets.
Series: Literary File
Date: about 1885
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 16.5 x 15 cm, handwritten
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Content: Written in pencil at the bottom of a proof of "As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors," a thirteen-line poem on President Grant's death, with a printed signature, four words: "Harper's Weekly, May 16." On the verso in another hand is "tr Nov 20 1885." Pasted on the verso is a small piece of paper, 5.25 x 10.75 cm, on which is written: "This fragment of Whitman's, Mr. (John) Burroughs sent me recently, with a lot of old papers & letters. As it has a memorandum in WW's hand, I know you will like to have it. C(lara).B(arrus)." This poem, published first in 1885, was also published as "Death of General Grant."