[for Hospital article] | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: [for Hospital article]
Whitman Archive ID: tex.00218
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: 1
Folder: 5
Series: Works, 1846-1913 and undated
Repository Title: For hospital article…
Date: probably 1888
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Notes, written on an opened-up envelope addressed to Whitman and postmarked August 1884, apparently indicating the page numbers of Specimen Days & Collect (1882–1883) on which appeared anecdotes that Whitman hoped to incorporate into an article about Civil War hospitals. Such an article, which uses some but not all of the anecdotes, appeared under the title "Army Hospitals and Cases. Memoranda at the Time, 1863–66" in Century Illustrated Magazine 36 (October 1888), 825–830. When it was revised and reprinted in November Boughs (1888) as Last of the War Cases: Memorandized at the time, Washington, 1865–'66, the material from Specimen Days & Collect was omitted. This version was also reprinted in Complete Prose Works (1892).