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Whitman Archive Title: Lincoln
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.01760
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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: 37
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Folder: ca. 1878–1890, "Abraham Lincoln"
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Series: Literary File
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Date: 1870–1874
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 6 leaves, handwritten; printed
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Content:
Notes on Abraham Lincoln and the political climate leading up to the
"attempted secession," including handwritten corrections of printed
prose. This manuscript contributed to "Origins of Attempted Secession. Not the whole matter, but some
facts worth conning to-day and any day,"
Specimen Days & Collect
(1882–1883). "Origins of
Attempted Secession" was first published as part of "'Tis But Ten Years Since [First Paper],"
New York Weekly Graphic
(24 January 1874). Portions of this essay
were revised and used in
Memoranda During the
War
(1875–1876) before appearing in
Specimen Days & Collect
. Whitman
included "Origins of Attempted
Secession" in
Complete Prose
Works
(1892).
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