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Whitman Archive Title: My Task
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00219
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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: My Task (1891). A.MS. draft.
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Series: Literary File
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Date: about 1891
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28 x 22 cm, handwritten
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Content:
Manuscripts of the following four poems, written neatly with slight
corrections: "My
task,"
"L of G's Purport,"
"Death dogs my
steps," and "For
us two, reader dear." All of the verses except "For us two, reader
dear" were fused together and published as one poem entitled
"L. of G.'s
Purport" in 1891.
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