Though all the breeds | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: Though all the breeds
Whitman Archive ID: loc.06086
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: OV 11
Folder: 1888, "Elias Hicks"
Series: Oversize
Date: about 1868
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: The manuscript fragment on the recto of this leaf appears to have been drafted for the unpublished essay "Orbic Literature," which Whitman combined with two essays published in The Galaxy ("Democracy" [December 1867] and "Personalism [May 1868]") as Democratic Vistas in 1871. "Democratic Vistas" was reprinted in Two Rivulets (1876), Specimen Days & Collect (1882–1883), Democratic Vistas, and Other Papers (1888), and Complete Prose Works (1892). The writing on the verso, concerning George Fox and Quakerism, is part of an apparently unrelated two-page manuscript.