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Whitman Archive Title: Twilight
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00317
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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: 30
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Folder: Twilight (1889). Proof on birch bark.
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Series: Literary File
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Date: June, 1889
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, 11.5 x 17 cm, handwritten
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Content:
Written in ink, with one line in pencil, are notes on a proof of "Twilight," which is
printed on a piece of tan birch bark. The notes, in Whitman's hand,
read: "Walt Whitman, June 1889" "on birch bark," and "a
curio, on birch bark, Walt Whitman." "Twilight" was first published in 1887.
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