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Whitman Archive Title: The States
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Whitman Archive ID: duk.00814
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Repository ID: MS q 195
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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: Between 1855 and 1860
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Genre: prose, poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
This manuscript contains a list of suggestions for titles poems or clusters of poems, including "The States," "Prairies," "Prairie Spaces," "Prairie Babes," and "American Chants." Since this manuscript was likely written in the late 1850s, it's possible that this last title is related to the "Chants Democratic and Native American" cluster in the 1860 edition of
Leaves of Grass
. On the reverse (duk.00031) is an early draft of a portion of the poem that would eventually be titled "In Paths Untrodden".
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