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[While I so deeply loved]

  • Whitman Archive Title: [While I so deeply loved]
  • Whitman Archive ID: yal.00150
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
  • Box: 1
  • Folder: 56
  • Date: 1864
  • Genre: poetry, prose
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: This is a manuscript with poem notes relating to Whitman's experience as a nurse during the Civil War, some lines of which correspond to "The Wound-Dresser," first published in Leaves of Grass (1876). The verso contains notes about a call Whitman received from a mother, dated December 23, 1864, regarding her son Frank Lester, an imprisoned soldier. The relationship of these prose notes to Whitman's published work is unknown.
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