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Whitman Archive Title: Brooklyn theatres
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.04742
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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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Series: Notes and Notebooks
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Date: about 1862
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
Two paragraphs, lightly corrected, about the first theater building in
Brooklyn. Whitman used this material in the eighth installment of "Brooklyniana; A Series of Local Articles, on
Past and Present." This series was published in the
Brooklyn Standard
between June 3, 1861 and November 1,
1862. "Brooklyniana, No.
8" appeared on January 25, 1862.
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