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Whitman Archive Title: Putrid Politics
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Whitman Archive ID: yal.00342
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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: 138
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Date: 1873–1875
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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A draft fragment composed on two scraps of paper, pasted together to form one leaf. In this manuscript, Whitman addresses the symptoms and causes of the Civil War. The ideas presented in this manuscript appeared in
Memoranda During the War
(1875–76) before being revised and collected in
Specimen Days & Collect
(1882) as "Origins of Attempted Secession: Not the whole matter, but some side facts worth conning to-day and any day." On the verso of one scrap is a draft letter, addressed to A. R. Butts, dated 29 December 1873.
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