The Wallabout Martyrs | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: The Wallabout Martyrs
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00171
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
Box: 2
Folder: 17; The Wallabout Martyrs
Date: 1888
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 2 leaves, 11.5 cm x 20.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: This manuscript contains a draft version of the poem "The Wallabout Martyrs" first published in the New York Herald , March 16, 1888. A note at the bottom states: "sent to Herald March 11" indicating the draft was likely completed around the time of publication. On the verso of the leaves appear scraps of a letter and an envelope addressed to Whitman in Camden.