[and a surplus of a hundred millions & more]

Whitman Archive Title: [and a surplus of a hundred millions & more]
Whitman Archive ID: loc.01055
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: 36
Folder: Undated, "These States and the Kosmical Scale," draft
Series: Literary File
Date: 1891
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: This manuscript is a partial draft of "American National Literature. Is There Any Such Thing—or Can There Ever Be?," which first appeared in the March 1891 issue of North American Review under the title, "Have We a National Literature?" before appearing in Good-Bye By Fancy (1891, and Complete Prose Works (1892).