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Whitman Archive Title: A Riddle Song
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Whitman Archive ID: tex.00027
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin
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Box: 2
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Folder: 2
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Series: Works, 1846-1913 and undated
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Date: 1880
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Genre: poetry, prose
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Physical Description: 4 leaves, handwritten; printed
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Content:
Manuscript and corrected proof of "A Riddle Song," a poem which first appeared in the
Tarrytown Sunnyside Press
on 3 April 1880. It was reprinted in
Forney’s Progress
(Philadelphia) 2 (17
April 1880): 508, and then included in the 1881–82 edition of
Leaves of Grass
. Also included is a cover note that describes the contents and declares that Whitman presented them to Richard Bucke on 26 May 1880.
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