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Whitman Archive Title: [the Idea of All]
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Whitman Archive ID: yal.00021
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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Box: 3
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Folder: 142
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Date: about 1872
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Genre: poetry, prose
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Physical Description: 16 leaves, 6.25 x 3.5 in., handwritten
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Content:
These leaves are pages from a top-bound notebook containing draft lines of
poetry, apparently for a poem delivered at the Dartmouth
College commencement in June 1872 and first published under the title, "As a Strong Bird on Pinions
Free," later revised and published as "Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood." Many of the
pages have been cut out or trimmed, and seven envelope faces have been
attached at the back of the notebook.
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