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Whitman Archive Title: Abraham Lincoln
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.05588
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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: 4
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Folder: Lincoln material, 1865-1868
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Series: Newspaper Clippings on the Civil War
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Date: 1878-1879
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
This manuscript contains what could be a preparatory note for the
lecture "Death of Abraham Lincoln"
delivered in New York in 1879, in Philadelphia in 1880 and in Boston in
1881. Portions of this lecture had been originally published as "Abraham Lincoln's Death. Walt Whitman's Account
of the Scene at Ford's Theatre," in the
New York Sun
(12 February
1876) and were included in
Memoranda
During the War
(1875-1876).
"Abraham Lincoln's Death" was
revised and published as "A Poet on the
Platform" in the
New York Daily
Tribune
(15 April 1879) and was subsequently
reprinted as "Death of Abraham
Lincoln" in
Specimen Days &
Collect
(1882-1883)
before finally appearing in
Complete Prose
Works
(1892).
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