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Old Age's Lambent Peaks

  • Whitman Archive Title: Old Age's Lambent Peaks
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.00233
  • 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: 28
  • Folder: Old Age's Lambent Peaks (1888). Proof Sheets.
  • Series: Literary File
  • Date: about 1888
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 2 leaves, 33 x 15 cm; envelope 10.5 x 13 cm, handwritten
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  • Content: An edited proof sheet with three poems: "Old Age's Lambent Peaks," "A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine," "To Get the Final Lilt of Songs," all published first in 1888. In addition to corrections, Whitman has written a note to the printer at the top of the page. Also included is an envelope with "printer's proofs, short poems, Walt Whitman, 1888, (autographic)" written on it.
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