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  • Whitman Archive Title: [for closing passage]
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.01799
  • 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: 37
  • Folder: ca. 1877–1883, Death of Abraham Lincoln, notes
  • Series: Literary File
  • Date: 1875–1886
  • Genre: prose
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: A heavily revised prose manuscript in which Whitman worked through ideas on the death of Abraham Lincoln. Whitman himself scrawled "Death of Abraham Lincoln" at the top of this manuscript; however, no other textual link can be made between this manuscript and "Death of Abraham Lincoln." This manuscript appears to be a draft of another prose piece on Lincoln, titled "Abraham Lincoln." This essay was first published, untitled, in Allen Thorndike Rice, ed., Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln (1886). Whitman reprinted this essay in November Boughs (1888). A revised version of the essay appeared in Complete Prose Works (1892).
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