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I have found my authority here

  • Whitman Archive Title: I have found my authority here
  • Whitman Archive ID: nby.00004
  • 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: about 1879
  • Genre: prose
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: A short prose manuscript that appears to be related to portions of Specimen Days , specifically "An Egotistical 'Find'." This piece was first published in Specimen Days & Collect (1882), and was included in Complete Prose . A note in another hand identifies this manuscript as part of "the Denver Diary of W. W." This manuscript is mounted in a copy of Notes and Fragments (1899), leaving the verso unavailable.

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