[O Earth, my likeness] | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: [O Earth, my likeness]
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00225
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: O Earth, My Likeness (1860). A.MS. draft.
Series: Literary File
Date: 1860
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 20.5 x 16 cm, handwritten
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Content: A draft of the poem first published as "Calamus, No. 36" in 1860 ("Earth, My Likeness" in the final version of Leaves of Grass ). A number 8 and a roman number VI are at the top of the page. This manuscript has a vertical line drawn straight through the middle. On the verso is a page of prose in Whitman's hand with "Rel." at the top.