Caution a machine readable transcription Walt Whitman Kenneth M. Price Ed Folsom Transcription and encoding Nicole Gray Ashlyn Stewart Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Iowa The National Endowment for the Humanities 2019 The Walt Whitman Archive
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 duk.00154 Edward Grier and Richard Maurice Bucke date this manuscript to the 1850s (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, ed. Edward F. Grier [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 4:1588; Notes and Fragments, ed. Richard Maurice Bucke [London, Ontario: A. Talbot & Co., printers, 1899], 67–8). Because the fragmentary draft material on the back of the leaf relates to an 1855 review, this manuscript was almost certainly written in or after 1855. Whitman, Walt "Caution" MS 4 to 196 (Volume 196) Between 1855 and 1860 Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University Transcribed from digital images of the original. The prose fragment on the back of this leaf relates to an 1855 review essay written by Whitman. regularized name for infrastructure transcribed, encoded Caution ☞ I to-day think it would be best not at all to bother with arguments against the foreign models, or to help American models—but just go on supplying American models Not to blaat constantly for Native American models, literature, &c, and cry bluster out "nothing foreign".—The best way to promulge Native American models and literature, is to supply such forcible and spuperb specimens of the same sathat they will, by their own volition, move to the head of all, and put foreign models in the second class.—