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Whitman Archive Title: Asia
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Whitman Archive ID: duk.00886
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Repository ID: MS q 14
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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Date: About 1855 or 1856
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Genre: prose, poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
This manuscript contains notes and draft lines that are related to a poem published first as "Poem of Salutation" in the 1856 edition of
Leaves of Grass
and later as "Salut Au Monde!" Whitman's use of the word "tabounshic" in this manuscript is unusual. He used it (spelled "tabounschik") only in the 1855 and 1856 editions of
Leaves of Grass
in the poem eventually titled "A Song for Occupations." In other respects, however, that poem does not appear to be related to these notes. The reverse side of the leaf (duk.00030) contains draft lines of the poem that was eventually titled "By Blue Ontario's Shore."
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