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Whitman Archive Title: And I say the stars
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00042
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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.
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Box: 29
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Folder: Song of Myself (1855). A.MS. draft.
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Series: Literary File
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Date: Between 1850 and 1855
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Genre: poetry, prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
Whitman probably drafted this manuscript in the early 1850s as he was composing the first (1855) edition of
Leaves of Grass
. The lines are similar to lines in the first and third poems in that edition, eventually titled "Song of Myself" and "To Think of Time." Similar draft lines also appear in "Talbot Wilson," an early notebook (loc.00141). On the verso (loc.07869) is a draft of a piece of journalism published on October 20, 1854.
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