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Whitman Archive Title: For Note
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.01552
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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: 1
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Folder: [1865 or before], war and hospital notes and memoranda
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Series: Notes and Memoranda
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Date: 1863-1875
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
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Content:
In this manuscript, entitled "For Note," Whitman seems to be drafting an
introductory note for
Memoranda During the
War
, published in 1875-1876.
Although the note does not appear verbatim in
Memoranda
, some passages of this manuscript bear
resemblance to the introductory paragraphs in which Whitman reflects on
the impossibility of writing a complete and accurate history of the war and offers the rationale for
his decision to record a "few glimpses" of "the Hospital part of the drama from
'61 to '65."
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