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Old Chants

  • Whitman Archive Title: Old Chants
  • Whitman Archive ID: tem.00002
  • Repository ID: Mss. 2517
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts in the Rare Books and Manuscripts, Special Collections, Temple University Libraries, Temple University
  • Repository Title: Old Chants
  • Date: ca. 1891
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, 36.3 x 21.4 cm, handwritten
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  • Content: Draft of "Old Chants," made of fragments pasted together, with corrections in Whitman's hand. Also included on the page is a note by Horace Traubel reading "Given by Walt Whitman to me and then by me to Will Innes, 1905." On verso: "Henry Curtis printer, Cor: Bridge Ave. & 2d, Camden." "Old Chants" first appeared in Truth (19 March 1891), and was reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).
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