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Walt Whitman's Book
371879, "Death of Abraham Lincoln," reading book with proofs, printed pages, and draftsloc.01761xxx.00531
Whitman appears to have used this book as a notebook in preparation for his lecture, "Death of Abraham
Whitman published it later that year as the title poem in a small book, As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free
Prisonca. 1875poetryprose1 leafhandwrittenprinted; A corrected proof of the poem The Singer in the Prison
The Singer in the Prison
This passage was incorporated into My Book and I, which was first published in the January 1887 issue
when Whitman used these and two other earlier essays (How 'Leaves of Grass' Was Made and How I Made a Book
It is unclear whether this manuscript was created in the processes that produced My Book and I or if
Included with the letter, which pitches Whitman's idea for a book about his firsthand experiences among
Whitman was unable to get such a book published for over a decade.
on the topic of military reform that Whitman added to Democratic Vistas (1871) when he created that book-length
Other Papers (1888) before parts of it were combined with two other pieces of journalism (How I Made a Book
, Philadelphia Press, 11 July 1886; My Book and I, Lippincott's Magazine, January 1887) and published
book1885-1886prose34 leaveshandwrittenprinted; This manuscript is a draft of the essay How I Made a Book
How I Made a Book, A Backward Glance on my Own Road and My Book and I (which was published in Lippincott's
How I made a book
memoranda note," using a different pen, clearly indicates that he thought of using the note for the book
fact that Captain Walter Murray Gibson, who had also talked about the "koboo" people (possibly in the book
East Indian Archipelago: a Description of Its Wild Races of Men, published in 1854, and/or in The Prison
Glance at the East Indian Archipelago, published in 1855), had affirmed that all his statements in the book
Book reviews.
; A mock title page for Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman, 1855–1888 Authenticated & Personal Book
On the verso of the third leaf is a corrected proof of The Singer in the Prison, also described in this