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Whitman Archive Title: [Earth]
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Whitman Archive ID: uva.00312
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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, 14.5 x 9.5 cm, handwritten
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Content:
On one leaf of white wove paper (14.5 x 9.5 cm), in brown-black ink, with
revisions in lighter ink (including the deletion, undone in 1860, of the phrase
"My likeness!" after "Earth!"). Pinholes mostly at top and in center. Whitman
penciled in the number 15 in the lower-left corner. Originally poem XI in the
sequence "Live Oak, with Moss"
(with the Roman numeral ornamentally drawn), this was revised to become section 36
of "Calamus" in 1860. In 1867
Whitman retitled the poem "Earth! My
Likeness!"
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