Missouri Kansas trip | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: Missouri Kansas trip
Whitman Archive ID: nby.00002
Repository ID: Case folio Y 245.W5918
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Prose Manuscripts in the Newberry Library
Repository Title: Notes and fragments: left by Walt Whitman and now edited by Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke, one of his literary executors
Date: 1879
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A brief note from Whitman's 1879 trip to attend the quarter-centennial celebration of the Kansas settlement and to visit his brother Jeff in St. Louis. Whitman journeyed as far as Denver and the Rockies before returning to Camden on January 5, 1880. Whitman first described this trip in Specimen Days & Collect (1882), and though no direct lines can be traced between this manuscript and Whitman's published prose, it is clear that these manuscript notes are related to portions of Specimen Days , specifically the section titled, "Missouri State." This manuscript is mounted in a copy of Notes and Fragments (1899), leaving the verso unavailable..