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The Dalliance of the Eagles
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Whitman Archive Title: The Dalliance of the Eagles
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00184
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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: The Dalliance of the Eagles (1880). Proof Sheets.
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Series: Literary File
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Date: about 1880
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, 25.8 x 18.6 cm, handwritten
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Content:
Written in ink on a proof of "The Dalliance of the Eagles,"
"Ah, little knows the
Laborer,"
"Hast never come to thee an
hour?," and "My
Picture-Gallery," are 14 words of notations in Whitman's
hand. The proof has been pasted to a heavy piece of paper, on the verso
of which is "A Riddle
Song," part of "Italian Music in Dakota," and a clipped headline reading
"The Society Articles Save Labor. Lighten the Labor for Mother."
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