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Whitman Archive Title: Out From This Mask
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00246
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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: 28
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Folder: Out from Behind This Mask (1876). A.MS. draft.
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Series: Literary File
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Date: between 1873-1876
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
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Content:
Draft of the poem "Out From
Behind This Mask," first published in 1876, written on two leaves. On the verso is a draft of a letter Whitman sent to Webster Elmes on 14 August 1873, arranging for a substitute, following his stroke, to cover his work as a clerk in Washington, D. C.
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