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Catalog of the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscript in the Bolton-Stanwood Family Papers, American Antiquarian Society
Original records created by the American Antiquarian Society; revised and expanded by the Walt Whitman Archive and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. Encoded Archival Description completed with the assistance of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the University of Nebraska Research Council, the Institute for Museum and Library Services, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Title: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscript in the Bolton-Stanwood Family Papers, American Antiquarian Society
- Collection Number: aas.ead01
- Creator: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
- Repository: American Antiquarian Society
- Abstract:
This catalog was created, in part, from a photocopied image of the original manuscript obtained by the Walt Whitman Archive. The original manuscript is held at the American Antiquarian Society.
- Scope and Content:
The American Antiquarian Society has one Walt Whitman poetry manuscript.
- Biographical Information:
For additional biographical information, see "Walt Whitman", by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price, and the chronology of Whitman's Life.
- Subjects:
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts
- Poets, American--19th century
Individual items at this repository
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Whitman Archive Title: Ship Ahoy!
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Whitman Archive ID: aas.00001
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Repository ID: octavo vol. 28, p.103
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Date: January 2, 1891
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
This is a late draft of "Ship
Ahoy!," first published in
Youth's
Companion
on March 12, 1891. The draft is relatively
clean, though there are some differences between this manuscript and the
published poem. On the verso of the manuscript is a cancelled letter to
Whitman from William S. Ingram, dated December 24,
1890.
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