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Whitman Archive Title: 1st Democracy
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.05224
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress
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Box: 1
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Folder: Undated, on the American Idiom
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Series: Manuscripts
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Date: Between December 1867 and May 1868
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
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Content:
These two leaves used to form part of the same sheet of paper, and form an outline for the three essays—only two of which were actually published as separate articles—that Whitman eventually combined to form the larger work entitled
Democratic Vistas
. As Whitman has written on the manuscript that the "Democracy" article was "already published," the date of its composition is likely between December 1867 (when "Democracy" appeared in
Galaxy
) and May 1868 (when
Personalism
was published). On the reverse of the leaves is a portion of un unpublished prose essay (loc.05620).
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