[The mystery of mysteries!]

Whitman Archive Title: [The mystery of mysteries!]
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00334
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: 29
Folder: A Thought of Columbus (1892). A.MS. drafts.
Series: Literary File
Date: about 1892
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A draft of lines for "A Thought of Columbus." According to Horace Traubel, this was the last poem Whitman wrote. It was published first in 1892. The draft is written on an opened-up envelope from J. H. Johnston postmarked October 30, 1891.