A talent for conversation a machine readable transcription Walt Whitman Kenneth M. Price Ed Folsom Transcription and encoding Kirsten Clawson Janel Cayer Kevin McMullen Nicole Gray Kenneth M. Price Regan Chasek Ashlyn Stewart Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Iowa The National Endowment for the Humanities 2014 The Walt Whitman Archive
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 nyp.00026 This manuscript is difficult to date conclusively, but Edward Grier suggests that "this sort of moralizing . . . belongs to [Whitman's] journalizing of the 1840s through the 1860s" (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:295). Whitman, Walt A talent for conversation b15520479 Between 1840 and 1870 The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library Transcribed from digital images of the original. regularized name for infrastructure added verso link blessed corrected checked, corrected checked checked; revised repository information in header transcribed and encoded

A talent for conversation—Have you it? If you have, you have a facile and dangerous tenant in your soul's palace.—