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Whitman Archive Title: A cluster of poems
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Whitman Archive ID: uva.00086
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Repository ID: #3829-i
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts at the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia
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Box: 1
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Folder: 19
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Date: About 1859
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, 19.5 x 15.5 cm, handwritten
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Content:
This manuscript contains notes for a cluster of poems that Whitman characterizes as being "in the
same way as 'Calamus Leaves' expressing the idea and sentiment of Happiness . . . " Whitman's use of the title "Calamus Leaves" on the opposite side, as in some very similar notes currently housed at Duke University, point toward the 1860 cluster "Enfans d'Adam" and dates the notes to some point in the late spring of 1859. On the reverse side of the leaf (uva.00516) are lines that perhaps constitute early notes for the second poem in the 1855 edition of
Leaves of Grass
, a poem that would eventually be titled "A Song for Occupations."
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