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Of Emerson's 1st vol

  • Whitman Archive Title: Of Emerson's 1st vol
  • Whitman Archive ID: wwa.00008
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library
  • Date: 1860–1873
  • Genre: prose
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: A manuscript comprised of two separate sheets pasted together to make one leaf. Portions of this manuscript were used in "Emerson's Books, (The Shadows of them)," which first appeared in the 22 May 1880 issue of the Boston Literary World . Portions of the essay were reprinted in the New York Tribune on 15 May 1882 under the title, "A Democratic Criticism. By Walt Whitman." The essay finally appeared in Complete Prose (1892) as "Emerson's Books, (The Shadows of them)."
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