The Sobbing of the Bells | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: The Sobbing of the Bells
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00020
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Box: 29
Folder: The Sobbing of the Bells (1881). A.MS. drafts.
Series: Literary File
Date: 1881
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Draft of "The Sobbing of the Bells," first published in the Boston Daily Globe on September 27, 1881. On the verso is a letter from John Boyle O'Reilly to Whitman that has been cut up and pasted together.