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Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, John Hay Library, Brown University
Original records created by the Special Collections Division of Brown University Library; revised and expanded by the Walt Whitman Archive and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. Encoded Archival Description completed with the assistance of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Title: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, John Hay Library, Brown University
- Collection Number: brn.ead02
- Creator: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
- Repository: John Hay Library
- Abstract:
This catalog was created from catalogue records created by Special Collections Division, Brown University Library, and obtained by the Walt Whitman Archive. The original papers and catalogue records are held at John Hay Library, Brown University.
- Scope and Content:
The Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays is composed of approximately 250,000 volumes of American and Canadian poetry, plays, and vocal music dating from 1609 to the present day. Only the Walt Whitman prose manuscripts are described in this catalog.
- 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
Individual items at this repository
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Whitman Archive Title: There will never come a time
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Whitman Archive ID: brn.00004
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Repository ID: Ms.30.94
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Repository Title: There will never come a time : prose draft, [ca. 1840-1890]
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Date: 1871-1875
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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This prose manuscript fragment, heavily revised, appears to be part of an early draft of the essay "Robert Burns," first published in the January 25, 1875 issue of
Our Land and Time
. Whitman revised and republished it several times. In
Complete Prose Works
(1892) the essay was titled "Robert Burns as Poet and Person." The draft is written on the reverse of the bottom half of a report by Secretary of the Treasury, George Boutwell, of the public debt as of January 31, 1871.
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Whitman Archive Title: Five thousand Poems
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Whitman Archive ID: brn.00005
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Repository ID: Ms.30.93
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Repository Title: Five thousand poems: essay, 1887, New York
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Date: 1887
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten
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This manuscript is a late draft, lightly corrected, of "Five Thousand Poems," an essay first published in
The Critic
April 16, 1887 and collected in
Democratic Vistas and Other Papers
(1888) and in
November Boughs
(1888).
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