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Whitman Archive Title: Buds
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Whitman Archive ID: uva.00308
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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, 21.5 x 13 cm, handwritten
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Content:
On pink leaf (21.5 x 13 cm), in black ink, with minor revisions in the same ink. A
few pinholes at top and near center. A pencil question mark appears in parentheses
in the upper-right corner. The number 52 appears to have been revised from 51.
After adding several verses, Whitman designated this poem section 13 of "Calamus" in the 1860
Leaves
, and, after dropping the first
two and last three lines of the 1860 version, permanently retitled it "Roots and Leaves Themselves
Alone" in 1867.
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