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Whitman Archive Title: [under Personal]
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Whitman Archive ID: tex.00315
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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
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Box: 2
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Folder: 6
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Series: Works, 1846-1913 and undated
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Repository Title: Walt Whitman still remains in St. Louis, Missouri…
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Date: 1879
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
Short press release, with several revisions, written sometime in the last
three months of 1879, during Whitman's stay at St. Louis with his
brother Jeff, following his train trip to Colorado. No newspaper
printing of this note has been located. Much of the material here did
appear, however, in the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
on December 17, 1879,
in an article titled "Walt Whitman: What the
Poet Does and How He Lives in St. Louis—Loafing and Inviting
His Soul." See Jim McWilliams, "An
Unknown 1879 Profile of Whitman,"
Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
11.3
(1994), 141–143.
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