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Whitman Archive Title: Old Chants
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Whitman Archive ID: tem.00002
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Repository ID: Mss. 2517
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts in the Rare Books and Manuscripts, Special Collections, Temple University Libraries, Temple University
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Repository Title: Old Chants
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Date: ca. 1891
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Genre: poetry
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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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