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Guide to the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts in the Joel A. Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Rare Books & Special Collections, Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina.
Original records created by the Walt Whitman Archive and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, based on information from Rare Books & Special Collections, Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina.Encoded Archival Description completed through the assistance of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation, the University of Nebraska Research Council, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
Title: Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts in the Joel A. Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Rare Books & Special Collections, Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina
Collection Number: N/A
Creator:
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Repository: Joel A. Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Rare Books & Special Collections
Abstract:
This electronic finding aid was created from a digital image of the original manuscript and cataloguing information obtained by the Walt Whitman Archive from the Department of Special Collections, Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina, where the original manuscript is held.
Scope and Content:
The University of South Carolina has a single Whitman poetry manuscript, described below, and a photograph of the poet. Both items bear the signature of Stanley Kimmel on the verso.
Biographical Information:
For additional biographical information, see
"Walt Whitman," by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price, and the
chronology of Whitman's Life.
Subjects: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892;
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts;
Poets, American--19th century;
Series Description and Item Lists
Item: 1
Folder: Mask with their lids
Whitman Archive ID: usc.00001
Title: "Veil with their lids, &c"
Date: about 1870
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 23 x 14.1, handwritten
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This is a manuscript of the poem, "Veil with their lids, &c," unpublished in Whitman's lifetime. The poem is apparently based on a photograph of Whitman possibly taken by the photographer, William Kurtz, in the 1860s. A note at the top of the manuscript, in Whitman's hand, reads, "p. 10 Passage to India," indicating that the poem might have been intended for inclusion in the volume of that name (Passage to India) published in 1870. The lines seem to anticipate the poem, "Out from Behind This Mask," first published in the New York Tribune on February 19, 1876.
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Repository Contact Information:
Joel A. Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Rare Books & Special Collections
Thomas Cooper Library
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208