[for Abraham Lincoln] | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: [for Abraham Lincoln]
Whitman Archive ID: loc.01800
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.
Box: 37
Folder: ca. 1877–1883, 'Death of Abraham Lincoln,' notes
Series: Literary File
Date: 1877–1886
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten
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Content: Notes toward a draft of "Abraham Lincoln," first published, untitled, in Allen Thorndike Rice, ed., Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln (1886). Whitman reprinted this essay in November Boughs (1888). A revised version of the essay appeared in Complete Prose Works (1892). Whitman composed these notes on a piece of incoming correspondence.