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[Hark! some wild trumpeter—]
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Whitman Archive Title: [Hark! some wild trumpeter—]
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00221
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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: Mystic Trumpeter (1872). A.MS. draft and notes.
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Series: Literary File
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Date: between 1871-1872
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 23 leaves, largest 37.5 x 20.5 cm, handwritten
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Content:
Held together loosely by a cover onto which a scrap of paper was pasted
as a label, inscribed by Walt Whitman: "Hark! some wild
trumpeter—." On verso of cover: "Advertising book of the
Daily Freeman
." At head in
Whitman's hand: "Original rough draught and Memoranda of
Mystic Trumpeter
." Three
pages of memoranda consist of trial lines and lists of words to be used
in the poem. The first page is signed by Whitman. Mostly written in ink
on versos of Department of Justice stationery. Many corrections in
pencil, indelible pencil, or red ink. "The Mystic Trumpeter" was first published
in 1872.
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