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Walt Whitman papers in the Charles E. Feinberg collection, 1763-1985

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Literary File, 1841-1919 (continued)
Poetry, 1842-1892 (continued)
Printed copy (continued)
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Proofs
Proof sheet
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Proof on birch bark with signed notations
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“A Twilight Song” ( 1890 )
Printed copies
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Proof sheets with signed notations
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“The Unexpress'd” ( 1890 )
Manuscript draft
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Offprint See Container 28, “Old Age Echoes”
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Proof sheet See Container 28, “Old Age Echoes”
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“Unveil Thy Bosom, Faithful Tomb” ( 1865 ), draft
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“Up, Lurid Stars!” ( 1865 ), signed draft
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“The Voice of the Rain” ( 1885 ), proof sheets with corrections and notations
[DCN 248]
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“Wandering at Morn” ( 1876 ), signed draft See Container 29, “The Singing Thrush”
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“Warble for Lilac-Time” ( 1870 ), printed copy
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“Washington's Monument, February, 1885" ( 1885 ), proof sheet See Container 26, “Ah, Not This Granite Dead and Cold”
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“The Whale Chase” ( 1860 ), proof sheet (published as “A Song of Joys”) See same container, “A Word Out of the Sea”
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“What Best I See in Thee” ( 1879 ), proof
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“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd” ( 1865-1866 ), notes See also Container 26, “Beat! Beat! Drums!”
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“Whispers of Heavenly Death” ( 1870 ), draft and printed copy with corrections and notations
[DCN 34]
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“With All Thy Gifts” ( 1876 )
Manuscript draft
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Proof
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“With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!” ( 1883 )
Manuscript draft See Container 26, “By Thine Own Lips, O Sea”
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Printed copies
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“A Word Out of the Sea” ( 1859 ), proof sheets (published as “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”) See Oversize
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“Yonnonido” ( 1887 )
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Proof sheets with corrections and notations
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“You Fired the Shot” ( undated ), draft See Container 38, Free cider
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“You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me” ( 1877 )
Printed copy
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Proof sheets with signed corrections and notations
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“You Tides with Ceaseless Swell” ( 1885 ), proof sheet See Container 27, “Fancies at Navesink”
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BOX 30-36 REEL 19-24 Prose, 1841-1892
Handwritten drafts, proofs and offprints, notes, and printed matter relating to Whitman's published and unpublished writings.
Arranged chronologically by date of publication or composition. Undated titles are arranged alphabetically at the end of the series.
BOX 30 REEL 19 1841
Aug. , “Death in the School-Room,” United States Magazine and Democratic Review, printed copy
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Oct. 25 , “Death in the School-Room,” Mauch Chunk Courier, printed copy
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BOX 31 REEL 19 Nov. 20 , “The Child's Champion,” New World, printed copy
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Nov. , “Wild Frank's Return,” United States Magazine and Democratic Review, printed copy
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Dec. , “Bervance,” United States Magazine and Democratic Review, printed copy
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1842
Mar. , “The Last of the Sacred Army,” United States Magazine and Democratic Review, printed copy
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May , “The Child-Ghost,” United States Magazine and Democratic Review, printed copy
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1844
Mar. , “The Love of Eris,” Columbian Magazine, clipping with corrections
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May , “Dumb Kate--an Early Death,” Columbian Magazine, printed copy
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Sept. , “The Little Sleighers,” Columbian Magazine, clipping with corrections and notations
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1845
June , “The Death of Wind-Foot,” American Review, printed copies
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July-Aug. , “Revenge and Requital,” Democratic Review, printed copy
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Oct. 18 , “The Death of Wind-Foot,” Crystal Fount and Rechabite Recorder, printed copy
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Nov.
“A Dialogue,” Democratic Review, printed copy
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“Tear Down and Build Over Again,” American Review, printed copy
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1848, June , “The Shadow and the Light of a Young Man's Soul,” Union Magazine of Literature and Art, printed copy
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1848-1849 , “The People and John Quincy Adams,” New Orleans Daily Crescent, proof sheet with corrections and notations
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1840s
“The Fate of Antoinette,” draft See same container, “Manly Training”
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“Manly Training,” draft
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1850
“Is There Any Hope?” New York Sunday Dispatch, newspaper clipping, includes notation See same container, “Letters from a Travelling Bachelor”
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“Letters from a Travelling Bachelor,” newspaper clipping with marginalia
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circa 1853 , “America's Poetic Need,” draft
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1854, Oct. 20 , “Sunday Restrictions,” Brooklyn Evening Star, newspaper clipping
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before 1855, “I Am a Born Democrat,” draft
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BOX 32 REEL 19-20 1855, Sept. , “Walter Whitman and His Poems,” United States Review, printed copy
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