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Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Ephemera Collection, University of Tulsa

Processed by Sidney F. Huttner; machine-readable finding aid created by Gina L. B. Minks; revised and expanded by The Walt Whitman Archive and University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. Encoded Archival Description completed with the assistance of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the University of Nebraska Research Council, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.


Title: Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Ephemera Collection, University of Tulsa

MS Number: N/A


Creator:  Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892


Repository:  University of Tulsa
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: Poem—a perfect school
Whitman Archive ID: tul.00011
Box: 1
Folder: 2
Date: Before or early in 1855
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: This manuscript was probably written in about 1855. The proposed poem about "a perfect school" is not known to have been published, although words and sentiments that appear in this manuscript also appeared in the poem that was eventually titled "Song of Myself." This manuscript's reference to "manly exercises" may also relate to a line in the poem eventually titled "A Song for Occupations."" On the back of this leaf (tul.00002) are draft lines that were used in the third poem in the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass, eventually titled "To Think of Time."



Whitman Archive Title: Sept. 5 '77
Whitman Archive ID: tul.00005
Repository Title: [Convalescence.]
Date: 1877
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A partial draft of a prose piece, with the cancelled title "Convalescence." A revised version of this draft fragment was first published in Specimen Days & Collect (1882–1883) as "The Oaks and I." Whitman included "The Oaks and I" unchanged in Complete Prose (1892).



Whitman Archive Title: The three or four poets
Whitman Archive ID: tul.00002
Box: 1
Folder: 2
Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Whitman probably drafted this manuscript in the early 1850s, as he was preparing materials for the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass. The manuscript features draft lines of the third poem in that edition, eventually titled "To Think of Time." On the back of this leaf (tul.00011) are notes toward a poem about "a perfect school."




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Repository Contact Information:

McFarlin Library
University of Tulsa
2933 E. 6th Street
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74104-3123


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