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Whitman Archive Title: First, to me
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Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00091
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Repository: Catalog of the Literary Manuscripts in The Oscar Lion Collection of Walt Whitman, The New York Public Library
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Repository Title: First, to me, come the People
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Date: about 1890
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
A prose fragment that Whitman used in the essay, "American National Literature," first published in the
North American Review
in March 1891, under the title "Have We a National Literature?" The essay was reprinted in
Good-Bye My Fancy
(1891) before finally being collected in
Complete Prose Works
(1892).
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