If I should need to name, O Western World!

Whitman Archive Title: If I should need to name, O Western World!
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00203
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: 27
Folder: If I Should Need to Name, O Western World (1884). A.MS. draft and printer's instructions.
Series: Literary File
Date: October 25, 1884
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten
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Content: Draft, lightly corrected, of "If I Should Need to Name, O Western World!" with a brief note containing instructions to the printer. These were probably sent to the Philadelphia Press , where, on October 26, 1884, the poem was first published. Whitman later retitled the poem "Election Day, November, 1884."