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This singular young man
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Whitman Archive Title: This singular young man
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Whitman Archive ID: duk.00120
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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Repository Title: "This singular young man was unnoted for any strong qualities"
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Date: 1840s or early 1850s
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
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Content:
This manuscript was first printed, in two separate segments, in Richard Maurice Bucke's
Notes and Fragments
(London, Ontario: A. Talbot & Co., 1899, 114–115, 116–117. Bucke dates the manuscript to the 1840s. It is possibly a draft of an early piece of fiction, but no connection to Whitman's known published works has been established.
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