BIB_ID
120335
Accession number
MA 518.1
Creator
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Display Date
undated [1881].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 25.2 cm
Notes
"This draft reflects a later version of the poem, published first in 1881."--Cf. The Walt Whitman Archive.
Part of a small collection of autograph manuscripts of Walt Whitman; see related collection-level record for more information.
Probable year of writing from The Walt Whitman Archive.
Part of a small collection of autograph manuscripts of Walt Whitman; see related collection-level record for more information.
Probable year of writing from The Walt Whitman Archive.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Summary
A draft of the poem written in pen and ink with corrections in both pen and pencil. With two versions of stanza 4, one written on a slip attached over top of the other (both versions are visible).
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