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Whitman Archive Title: A Kiss to the Bride
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00207
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
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Box: 27
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Folder: A Kiss to the Bride (May 21, 1874?). Printed Copy.
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Series: Literary File
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Date: May, 1874
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12.5 x 10 cm, handwritten
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Content:
A clipped copy of the poem "A Kiss to the Bride" pasted on a larger sheet with a note in
Whitman's hand reading, "Marriage of Nelly Grant, (Mrs. Sartoris) the
President's daughter, May 2nd, 1874." The poem was first
published in the New York
Daily
Graphic
, May 21, 1874. This clipping appears to be from the poem's reprinting, two days later, in the same newspaper.
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