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Lecture by Walt Whitman on Abraham Lincoln
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Whitman Archive Title: Lecture by Walt Whitman on Abraham Lincoln
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Whitman Archive ID: tex.00328
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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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Series: Works, 1846-1913 and undated
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Date: 1886
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: about 16 leaves, newspaper clipping
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Content:
Notes for the lecture on the death of Abraham Lincoln that Whitman
delivered in Philadelphia on April 15, 1886. The notes consist of
clippings from earlier printings of the lecture with a few handwritten
revisions. The lecture was first published as "Death of Lincoln" in the
New York Sun
on February 12,
1876. A revised version appeared as "A Poet on the Platform" in the
New York Daily Tribune
on April 15, 1879. In
Specimen Days & Collect
(1882–83) and in
Complete Prose
Works
(1892) it was titled "Death of Abraham Lincoln. Lecture
deliver'd in New York, April 14, 1879—in
Philadelphia, '80—in Boston, '81.
" The notes
are mounted in a bound volume along with the letter that Whitman sent
with them to Thomas Donaldson, a note written by Donaldson, an engraving of
Whitman, and a ticket to a performance of the lecture on April 14, 1887.
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