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I think the principal obstacle
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Whitman Archive Title: I think the principal obstacle
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Whitman Archive ID: yal.00422
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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: 140
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Date: 1882
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten; printed
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Content:
Whitman's notes on the "treatment of sex" as the chief obstacle to the advancement of women's rights, pasted to a backing sheet with a clipping of "What Women Can Do" from the
New York Herald
17 April 1882. Portions of this manuscript were revised and used in "A Memorandum at a Venture," first published in the June 1882 issue of the
North American Review
. This essay was reprinted in
Specimen Days
(1882).
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