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A nation announcing itself

  • Whitman Archive Title: A nation announcing itself
  • Whitman Archive ID: duk.00030
  • Repository ID: MS q 14
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
  • Date: 1855 or 1856
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: A manuscript draft of the opening passage of "Poem of Many in One," first published in the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass . The final title of the poem, "By Blue Ontario's Shore," first appeared in the 1881/1882 edition of Leaves . The reverse side of this leaf (duk.00886) contains both prose and verse that appears to be a draft of "Salut Au Monde!"
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