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Title: ? Gases
Creator: Walt Whitman
Date: Between 1850 and 1860
Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00070
Source: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library. Transcribed from digital images of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the marginalia and annotations, see our statement of editorial policy.
Editorial note(s): At one point, this manuscript likely formed part of Whitman's cultural geography scrapbook. This manuscript is pasted down, making the verso inaccessible.
Contributors to digital file: Kevin McMullen
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Four Kingdoms of Nature
? Gases (and waters)
Minerals
vegetables
Animals
(?) Gases
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all these as in the myriad forms and identities of the world, and under the divine something called life.—