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Whitman Archive Title: Says
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Whitman Archive ID: uva.00230
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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
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Folder: 50-51
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Date: 1857-1859
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 12.5 cm to 21.5 x 13 cm, handwritten
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Content:
These manuscript lines were revised to form numbered section 7 of the ungrouped
poem "Says" in the 1860
edition of
Leaves of Grass
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Whitman cut four verse paragraphs in the 1867
Leaves of Grass
version; from that point on the
shortened poem appeared, ungrouped, under the title "Suggestions" until its final appearance in 1876. The
cancelled lines on the top section of the manuscript appear to be a draft of lines
that were never published but that bear great resemblance to the various "Thoughts" and "Thought (Of . . .)" poems Whitman
published throughout the many editions of
Leaves of Grass
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