[Put on the old ship] | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: [Put on the old ship]
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00234
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 Ship and Crafty Death's (1890). A.MS. draft.
Series: Literary File
Date: between 1888-1890
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 2 leaves, 25.5 x 22.5, 24 x 15 cm, handwritten
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Content: An early draft written in ink, with a correction in blue pencil, of "Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's," first published in 1890. The draft has the underlined title "Old Age's Ship and crafty Death" half way down the page. One page is written on the back an opened envelope addressed to Whitman and postmarked Scarborough, December 20, 1888.