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Whitman Archive Title: [and a surplus of a hundred millions & more]
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.01055
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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: 36
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Folder: Undated, "These States and the Kosmical Scale," draft
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Series: Literary File
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Date: 1891
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
This manuscript is a partial draft of "American National Literature. Is There Any Such Thing—or Can
There Ever Be?," which first appeared in the March 1891 issue of
North American Review
under the title, "Have We a National Literature?" before
appearing in
Good-Bye By Fancy
(1891, and
Complete Prose
Works
(1892).
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