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Whitman Archive Title: Western Nicknames
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.07052
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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: 39
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Folder: 1847-1869, words and nicknames
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Series: Notes and Notebooks
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Date: about 1885
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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View Images: currently unavailable
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Content:
On one side of the manuscript leaf are notes about demonyms for the
people of various places in North America. Whitman made use of this list
in his essay "Slang in America," which
was first published in the November 1885 issue of
The North American Review
and later
collected in
November Boughs
(1888) and
Complete Prose
Works
(1892). The other side, which has been
cancelled, contains a partial draft of an article written in response to
an unidentified author who had apparently found fault with American
politics and newspaper literature. It is unknown whether the writing on
this side led to publication. No images of this item are currently
available.
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