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        <author>Walt Whitman</author>
        <editor>Kenneth M. Price</editor>
        <editor>Ed Folsom</editor>
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        <sponsor>Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of
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        <sponsor>University of Iowa</sponsor>
        <funder>National Historical Publications and Records Commission</funder>
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          <addrLine>University of Nebraska-Lincoln</addrLine>
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          <p>Copyright © 2012 by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price, all rights
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