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Catalog of the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, The Library of Congress
Original finding aid completed by the Library of Congress; 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 Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, The Library of Congress
- Collection Number: loc.ead06
- Creator: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
- Repository: Manuscripts Division, The Library of Congress
- Abstract:
This catalog was created, in part, from digital images of the original manuscripts obtained by The Walt Whitman Archive. The original papers and finding aid are held at the Library of Congress.
- Scope and Content:
The Walt Whitman Collection holds several items including drafts of poems and essays, letters to and from members of Whitman's family, and commentary on contemporary American poets. For this catalog, only those objects deemed literary manuscripts have been described at the item-level.
- 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: Death of Gen. Grant
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00089
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Date: ca. 1888
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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A draft of the poem "Death of
General Grant." The poem was first published in
Harper's Weekly Magazine
on May 16, 1885 under the title "As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors." It was later reprinted as "Grant" in the
Critic
on August 15, 1885. It finally appeared, in an altered form and under the title "Death of General Grant," in "Sands at Seventy" (first a part of
November Boughs
[1888] and then as an annex to the 1889 reprinting of
Leaves of Grass
). Since this manuscript is titled "Death of Gen. Grant" and does not contain the poem's second verse (which Whitman cut from the "Sands at Seventy" version) it is likely that this copy was written in or around 1888, despite the note (in another hand) placing the date at 1885.
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Whitman Archive Title: Interpolation Sounds
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00090
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Date: ca. 1888
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28 x 21.5 cm, handwritten
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An early draft of the poem "Interpolation Sounds," first published in the
New York Herald
on August 12, 1888 under the title
"Over and Through the
Burial Chant." It was publised with the revised title in
Good-Bye My Fancy
(1891).
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Whitman Archive Title: o the bleeding drops of red
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00091
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Date: 1888
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten; printed
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Handwritten notes and corrections on a printed copy of the poem "O Captain! My Captain!" Although the poem was first published in the
Saturday Press
on
November 4, 1865
and later included in
Sequel to Drum-Taps
(1865-66), the corrections on this particular copy were made in early 1888, when the poem was reprinted in the
Riverside Literature Series
, Number 32 (January 1888). On the verso is a note from Whitman to the publishers of the
Riverside Literature Series
concerning corrections to be made to their printed version of the poem.
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