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Specimen Days Grisi and Mario

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  • Title: Specimen Days Grisi and Mario
  • Date: Undated
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: duk.00679
  • Source: Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Transcribed from digital images of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: Grier estimates that this note (which is pasted down) was written in 1880 (Walt Whitman: Notebooks and Unpublished Manuscripts, ed. Edward F. Grier [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 3:1064).
  • Contributors to digital file: Lauren Grewe Nicole Gray Ty Alyea Matt Cohen Ashlyn Stewart
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Specimen Days Grisi and Mario." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: duk.00679.xml (TEI)

Key

Textual Feature Appearance
Whitman's hand blue double overline and underline
Highlighting yellow background with top and bottom border
Paste-on gray box with black borders
Laid in white box with black borders
Erasure white text with dark gray background
Overwritten brown with strikethrough
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Specimen Days

Grisi and Mario arrived in NY Aug 19. 1854 —I heard them that winter & in 1855 the Cholera in NY in 1855 —the Crimean War 1854–5 (yr?)
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