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Whitman Archive Title: [Poem—Columbus]
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00880
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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: Prayer of Columbus (1874). Marginalia.
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Series: Literary File
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Date: about May, 1869
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Genre: poetry, prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, 41 x 27 cm, handwritten
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Content:
Detached from
Irish
Republic
3, no. 5 (May 1869), 60: "The Last Days of Columbus" [abstract from
Sir Arthur Phelps' book
The
Spanish Conquest in America
, reprinted from
Harper's Magazine
]. Across
left margin in Walt Whitman's hand: "Poems—Columbus—(? that name for
piece)—make the poem an utterance of Columbus—there on Jamaica island
(read first
Ulysses
, by
Tennyson)." Some of the passages in the abstract are marked and
underlined by Whitman. This is assumed to be the original idea of the
poem "Prayer of
Columbus," first published in 1874.
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