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To reinforce the truthfulness of Pierson's stories about the "koboo," Whitman mentions the fact that
WhitmanThe voice is a curious organ1850-1855prose1handwrittenprinted; This manuscript scrap might be part
This essay was revised and included in Democratic Vistas, and Other Papers (1888) before parts of it
Origins of Attempted Secession was first published as part of 'Tis But Ten Years Since [First Paper],
The longest of these notes, which appears on p. 2 of the appendix, constitutes a draft of a passage that
It was reprinted in Forney’s Progress (Philadelphia) 2 (17 April 1880): 508, and then included in the
A revised version of this prose piece was eventually published as part of Specimen Days & Collect (1882
Parts of the previous 1875 article were used in the 1882 article.