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Whitman Archive Title: To the Soul
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00113
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the George S. Hellman Collection, The Library of Congress
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Date: about 1874
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, 19.5 x 12.5 cm, handwritten
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Content:
These lines appear to be very early ideas connected with the poem first published as "Come, said my Soul" in the Christmas number of
the New York
Daily Graphic
,
December 1874,
then in the New York
Tribune
, February 19, 1876. This poem, signed by Whitman, became
the title-page epigraph of
Leaves
of Grass
, 1876 and 1891-92. The verso is blank.
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