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A talent for conversation

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  • Title: A talent for conversation
  • Date: Between 1840 and 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00026
  • Source: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library. Transcribed from digital images of the original. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This manuscript is difficult to date conclusively, but Edward Grier suggests that "this sort of moralizing . . . belongs to [Whitman's] journalizing of the 1840s through the 1860s" (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:295).
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "A talent for conversation." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 08 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: nyp.00026.xml (TEI)

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A talent for conversation—Have you it? If you have, you have a facile and dangerous tenant in your soul's palace.—

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