Catalog of a Walt Whitman Manuscript in the John D. Batchelder Collection, The Library of Congress

Original records created by the Library of Congress; revised and expanded by The Walt Whitman Archive and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. Encoded Archival Description completed with the assistance of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the University of Nebraska Research Council, the Institute for Museum and Library Services, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Title: Catalog of a Walt Whitman Manuscript in the John D. Batchelder Collection, The Library of Congress
Collection Number: loc.ead03
Creator: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Repository: Manuscripts Division, The Library of Congress

Abstract:
This catalog was created, in part, from digital images of the original manuscripts obtained by The Walt Whitman Archive. The original papers and finding aid are held at the Library of Congress.
Scope and Content:
The John D. Batchlelder Collection contains one Whitman manuscript, described below.
Biographical Information:
For additional biographical information, see "Walt Whitman", by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price, and the chronology of Whitman's Life.
Subjects:
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts
- Poets, American--19th century

Individual items at this repository

Whitman Archive Title: The Dead of This War
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00092
Date: 1865-1875
Genre: prose, poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 20 x 15 cm, handwritten
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Content: A manuscript, seemingly drafted as poetry, that contains several lines and phrases that appear as prose in "The Million Dead, Too, Summ'd Up," a section of Memoranda During the War (1875-76).

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