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Whitman Archive Title: Kentucky
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00206
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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: 27
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Folder: Kentucky (1861). A.MS. draft.
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Series: Literary File
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Date: about 1861
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 6 leaves, 11.5 x 18.5 cm to 19.5 x 16 cm, handwritten
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Content:
An unfinished poem, entitled "Kentucky," the title given three times,
with "By Walt Whitman" on one of the pages (see image 3). On one of the
pages is a fragment on the Mississippi River, which editors (beginning
with James E. Miller, Jr.) have included as the last stanza of "Kentucky" (see image
1). On the verso of another page is a cancelled portion of a letter
about Jesse Whitman's employment, from which the manuscript can be dated
1861 (see
image 12).
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