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About This Item

  • Title: names
  • Date: Between 1850 and 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: yal.00015
  • Source: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript 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: Based on the handwriting, Edward Grier dates the notes about names of various tribes of people to the 1850s (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 5:1663). The name and address written in pencil were added later, likely in 1881, when Whitman visited Boston several times, first to deliver a lecture and then to oversee the production of the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. Although Whitman also visited Boston in 1860, John Soule's photography studio did not move to 338 Washington Street, the address that Whitman lists, until the 1870s.
  • Notes written on manuscript: On leaf 1 recto, in unknown hand: "564"
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "names." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 08 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: yal.00015.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] names 564 the Niam-Niams, the Battas and the Tonga-Taboos, the Quichuas, (the ancient Peruvians) ar or the Aleuts of our own N far north-west John P Soule photographer & publisher 338 Washington Boston   [begin leaf 1 verso]
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