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Catalog of a Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscript in the Charles N. Elliot Collection, The Library of Congress
Original finding aid completed 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 Poetry Manuscript in the Charles N. Elliot Collection, The Library of Congress
- Collection Number: loc.ead04
- 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 Charles N. Elliot Collection holds several Whitman items including a poetry draft, article reprints, newspaper and magazine clippings on Whitman, and correspondence about Whitman. For this catalog, only the lone object deemed a poetry manuscript has been described at the item-level.
- 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
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Whitman Archive Title: Nay, Tell Me Not To-Day The Publish'd Shame
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00093
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Folder: Nay, Tell Me Not To-Day the Published Shame
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Date: ca. 1873
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 4 leaves, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten
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Content:
Trial lines and rough draft of the first section of the poem "Nay, Tell Me Not To-Day the
Publish'd Shame," first published in the
New York Daily Graphic
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March 5,
1873. It was not reprinted again during Whitman's lifetime.
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