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For War Memoranda

  • Whitman Archive Title: For War Memoranda
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.01553
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress
  • Box: 1
  • Folder: [1865 or before], war and hospital notes and memoranda
  • Series: Notes and Memoranda
  • Date: 1863-1875
  • Genre: prose
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten; printed
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  • Content: This manuscript contains preparatory material for Memoranda During the War , published in 1875-1876. (Although the note does not appear verbatim in Memoranda , the fact that Whitman titles the manuscript "for war memoranda note," using a different pen, clearly indicates that he thought of using the note for the book.) On the verso is a draft of the section titled "An Afternoon Scene" published in Specimen Days & Collect , see the entry for loc.06100.

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