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Why should I subscribe money

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  • Title: Why should I subscribe money
  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00742
  • 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: Whitman may have drafted this manuscript between 1850 and 1855, as he was composing the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass. Language in the manuscript bears some similarity to language in the first poem in that edition, eventually titled "Song of Myself."
  • Related Item(s):
    • A poetry draft on the back of this manuscript may relate to "Song of Myself." See nyp.00089.
    • See wwa.00612.
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Why should I subscribe money." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 08 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: nyp.00742.xml (TEI)

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Overwritten brown with strikethrough
Added inline purple with double underline
Uncertain gray with wavy underline
Supplied from another source turquoise with brackets
Metamark green with triple underline
Long deletion gray background with top and bottom border
  [begin leaf 1 recto] Why should I subscribe money to build a some general's hero's statue ? for 
  the greatest That butcher boy with is just as great a hero He does not know what fear is   [begin leaf 1 verso]
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