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[to speak a reverent word]
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Whitman Archive Title: [to speak a reverent word]
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.01761
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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: 37
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Folder: 1879, "Death of Abraham Lincoln," reading book with proofs, printed pages, and drafts
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Series: Literary File
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Date: 1879–1881
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 33 leaves, handwritten; printed
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Content:
Manuscript notes and clippings of printed prose gathered by Whitman in a
homemade notebook created from a copy of John Dunbar Hylton's,
Bride of Gettysburg
(1878).
Whitman appears to have used this book as a notebook in preparation for
his lecture, "Death of Abraham Lincoln." Portions of this speech were
originally published as "Abraham Lincoln's
Death. Walt Whitman's Account of the Scene at Ford's
Theatre,"
New York Sun
(12 February
1876) and were included in
Memoranda
During the War
(1875–1876). "Abraham Lincoln's Death" was revised and
published as "A Poet on the Platform,"
New York Daily Tribune
(15 April 1879) and was subsequently reprinted as "Death of Abraham Lincoln" in
Specimen Days & Collect
(1882–1883) before finally appearing in
Complete Prose Works
(1892).
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