BIB_ID
120417
Accession number
MA 518.4
Creator
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Display Date
undated [1876].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 11.9 x 19.6 cm
Notes
Part of a small collection of autograph manuscripts of Walt Whitman; see related collection-level record for more information.
Probable year of writing from date of letter on the verso of the poem and from The Walt Whitman Archive.
Probable year of writing from date of letter on the verso of the poem and from The Walt Whitman Archive.
Provenance
Purcahsed by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Summary
A draft of the poem with autograph revisions, written on the verso of a fragment of a letter from F. H. Mann, dated Rochester, 11 February 1876, to Walt Whitman requesting an autograph.
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