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[l]oving every one I meet

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  • Title: [l]oving every one I meet
  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: uva.00272
  • Source: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia. 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: Based on the material written on the back of this leaf, this manuscript was probably written in the 1850s. The lines do not appear to have contributed directly to any of Whitman's published poetry.
  • Related Item(s):
    • Draft lines on the back of this manuscript leaf probably relate to the poem eventually titled "Poets to Come." See uva.00271.
    • See wwa.00060.
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "[l]oving every one I meet." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 08 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: uva.00272.xml (TEI)

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Textual Feature Appearance
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] [cut away] ever [illegible] [cut away] oving every one I meet and drawing their love in [cut away] Never losing old friends, ^or new ones; and finding new on[cut away]  
  every day of my life; [cut away]   [begin leaf 1 verso]
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