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Whitman Archive Title: Specimen Days
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Whitman Archive ID: duk.00679
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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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Date: about 1880
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
A small scrap on which Whitman has written "Specimen Days" at the top in red ink. The manuscript contains a short note about Giulia Grisi and Giuseppe Mario, two opera singers who Whitman saw in New York in the 1850s, and who Whitman mentions in the section of
Specimen Days
entitled "Plays and Operas too." Edward Grier dates the manuscript, based on the paper and ink, to around 1880 (
Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts
[New York: New York University Press, 1984] 3:1064). The manuscript is pasted to a backing sheet, making the verso inaccessible.
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