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Whitman Archive Title: [Thanks in old age]
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Whitman Archive ID: tex.00074
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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: bv2
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Series: Works, 1846-1913 and undated
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Repository Title: Thanks in Old Age
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Date: about 1887
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
Heavily revised draft of approximately seven lines of the poem "Thanks in Old Age,"
which was first published on 24 November 1887 in the Philadelphia
Press
. It was reprinted in the New York
World
on 23 November 1890 under the title "Walt Whitman's Thanksgiving" and in the so-called deathbed edition of
Leaves of Grass
(1891–92) under its original title. This manuscript has been pasted to a backing sheet and no image of the verso is available.
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