Though the spare hours | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: Though the spare hours
Whitman Archive ID: loc.05263
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress
Box: 1
Folder: Robert Burns as Poet and Person
Series: Notes and Memoranda
Date: 1884-1888
Genre: prose, correspondence
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: According to Grier, this scrap was found in an envelope with numerous newspaper clippings about Robert Burns dating from March 25, 1836 to August 9, 1890 ( Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press], 3, 1140). The notes were apparently intended for a revision to the essay "Robert Burns as Poet and Person," which appeared under the title "Robert Burns" in The Critic (16 December 1882), and as "Robert Burns as Poet and Person" in The North American Review (November 1886). This essay was later reprinted in Democratic Vistas and Other Papers (1888) and in November Boughs (1888). The essay was also retained, still within November Boughs , in Complete Prose Works (1892). The letter on the verso is dated June 10, 1884.