[Brooklyn is ° latitude] | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: [Brooklyn is ° latitude]
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04740
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.
Series: Notes and Notebooks
Date: about 1862
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Whitman probably wrote these notes about Long Island's geographical dimensions and aboriginal name in the course of preparing material for "Brooklyniana; A Series of Local Articles, on Past and Present," which was published in the Brooklyn Standard between June 3, 1861 and November 1, 1862. Some of the information and phrases contained in this manuscript were included in the thirteenth installment, which appeared on March 1, 1862.