BIB_ID
453759
Accession number
MA 23912
Creator
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Credit line
Gift of Susan Jaffe Tane in honor of the Morgan's Centennial, 2024.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; various sizes
Notes
Heavily revised. On multiple paper stocks, sometimes pasted together.
Dating based on the publication of the first version of the poem with the title "Poem of Many in One" in the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass and its publication after extensive revision with the title "As I Sat Alone By Blue Ontario's Shore" in the 1867 edition.
Formerly housed in a green leather collector's binding. Enclosure removed in 2025.
Dating based on the publication of the first version of the poem with the title "Poem of Many in One" in the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass and its publication after extensive revision with the title "As I Sat Alone By Blue Ontario's Shore" in the 1867 edition.
Formerly housed in a green leather collector's binding. Enclosure removed in 2025.
Provenance
Susan Jaffe Tane.
Summary
Four drafts of passages from "By Blue Ontario's Shore."
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