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[Nevertheless it must]

  • Whitman Archive Title: [Nevertheless it must]
  • Whitman Archive ID: tex.00098
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin
  • Box: 2
  • Folder: 3
  • Series: Works, 1846-1913 and undated
  • Repository Title: Nevertheless it must be distinctly admitted…
  • Date: about 1880
  • Genre: prose
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: Notes about Emerson and democracy, probably toward what would become the 1880 essay "Emerson's Books, (The Shadows of Them.)," which appeared in the May 22, 1880, Boston Literary World. It was reprinted in part in the New York Tribune on May 15, 1882, as "A Democratic Criticism. By Walt Whitman." Finally, it appeared in Specimen Days & Collect (1882–83). The notes on the other side, tex.00462, probably contributed to the preface Whitman wrote for the 1876 issue of Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets as a two-volume set.
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