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per.00302 Walt Whitman Sun-Down Papers—[No. 2] Hempstead Inquirer 14 March 1840 [2] per.00303 Walt Whitman
Sun-Down Papers—[No. 3] Hempstead Inquirer 28 March 1840 [2] per.00304 Walt Whitman Sun-Down Papers—
1840 [3] per.00307 Walt Whitman Sun-Down Papers—[No. 8] Long-Island Democrat 20 October 1840 [2] per
.00309 Walt Whitman Sun-Down Papers—[No. 9] Long-Island Democrat 24 November 1840 [2] per.00313 Walt
Papers—[No. 10] Long-Island Farmer 20 July 1841 [2] per.00316 Written for the Walt Whitman Archive .
See "Of a Summer Evening," Notes and Fragments , Part 3, #136, 122–123; "This Singular Young Man," Part
Most of the stories Whitman contributed are sentimental tales or didactic stories that contain moral
Story Writer," 87–89.
He would eventually publish eight of his stories (about a third of the total number) as part of that
"The Child-Ghost" and "Lingave's Temptation," the other two stories that formed part of "Pieces in Early
This catalog was created, in part, from digital images of the original manuscripts obtained by The Walt