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Catalog of a Walt Whitman Literary Manuscript in the Rosenbach Museum and Library

Original records created by the Rosenbach Museum and Library; revised and expanded by the Walt Whitman Archive and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. Encoded Archival Description completed with the assistance of the National Endowment for the Humanities.


Title: Walt Whitman Literary Manuscript in the Rosenbach Museum and Library

Creator:  Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892


Repository:  Rosenbach Museum and Library

Abstract:
This electronic catalog was created from catalogue records created by the Rosenbach Museum and Library, and obtained by the Walt Whitman Archive. The original papers and catalogue records are held at The Rosenbach Museum and Library.

Scope and Content: 
The Rosenbach Museum and Library holds a single Walt Whitman prose manuscript, described below.

Biographical Information:
For additional biographical information, see "Walt Whitman," by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price, and the chronology of Whitman's Life.

Subjects:
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892;  Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century



Whitman Archive Title: [Often too in real size and value]
Whitman Archive ID: rml.00001
Repository Title: Often too in real size and value
Repository ID: AMs 1282/30
Date: about 1888
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
View images: 1 | 2
Content: A heavily revised and struck through prose draft fragment, portions of which appeared in the last paragraph of "Notes (such as they are) founded on Elias Hicks," November Boughs (1888) before being collected under the same title in Complete Prose (1892).




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Repository Contact Information:

Rosenbach Museum and Library
2010 DeLancey Place
Philadelphia, PA 19103


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