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Whitman Archive Title: 1645–6
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.06010
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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: OV 11
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Folder: 1888, "Elias Hicks"
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Series: Oversize
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Date: about 1888
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
These notes are based on Whitman's reading of the third volume of George
L. Craik and Charles Macfarlane's
The Pictorial
History of England
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848).
He incorporated some of this information into his essay "Notes (such as they are) founded on Elias
Hicks," which was first published in
November Boughs
(1888) and later
reprinted in
Complete Prose Works
(1892). Whitman planned to write an essay about Elias Hicks
for many years. While finishing preparations for the printing of
November Boughs,
Whitman told Horace
Traubel, "Some of these bits were written as many as thirty years ago.
Some of them I have written within the past year. They are a
miscellaneous lot but they all belong in the same stream." (See Traubel,
With Walt Whitman in Camden,
2: 42.) The present manuscript is stored together with many other
manuscripts on the topics of Elias Hicks and Quakerism. Those that
directly contributed to the published essay are described separately.
Those whose relationship to the published essay are unclear are not
included at this stage of our work.
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