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Whitman Archive Title: you know how
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00142
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress
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Box: 8
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Folder: Notebooks, [Before 1855]
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Series: Recovered Cardboard Butterfly and Notebooks, [1847]-[circa 1863-1864]
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Date: 1855 or before
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Genre: prose, poetry
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Physical Description: 14 leaves, handwritten
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Content:
Because it comprises material that Whitman used in the first edition of
Leaves of Grass
, this notebook must date to sometime before mid-1855.Emory Holloway has posited several connections between passages in this notebook and specific lines in the 1855 edition. Although some of these connections are dubious, the notebook's series of drafts about the effects of music are clearly related to what ultimately became section 26 of "Song of Myself." See Emory Holloway, ed.,
The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman
(Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:83–86.
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