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And now I care not to

  • Whitman Archive Title: And now I care not to
  • Whitman Archive ID: duk.00031
  • Repository ID: MS q 195
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
  • Date: about 1860
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: This manuscript is an early draft of a portion of the opening poem of the "Calamus" cluster in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. Beginning in the 1867 edition and for all subsequent editions the poem was titled "In Paths Untrodden." The reverse (duk.00814) contains a list of suggestions of titles for poems or clusters of poems, including "The States," "Prairies," "Prairie Spaces," "Prairie Babes," and "American Chants."
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