[Simple and Fresh] | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: [Simple and Fresh]
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00162
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts at the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia
Box: 1
Folder: 35; The First Dandelion
Date: around 1888
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 26 cm x 20 cm, handwritten
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Content: This manuscript contains a draft of a poem first published in the New York Herald , March 12, 1888 entitled "The First Dandelion". A note on the bottom of the page states "sent to Herald March 11" indicating the draft was likely composed around the time of publication. On the verso appears a letter to Whitman from Witcraft dated 3/8/88.