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Whitman Archive Title: Leaves of Grass.
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Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00522
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Repository: Catalog of the Literary Manuscripts in The Oscar Lion Collection of Walt Whitman, The New York Public Library
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 4 p. 1., xii, (1) 14-95 p., 30 cm., front. (port.)
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Content:
Whitman's own copy, with
handwritten notes and the original pink paper covers, of the 1855 edition of
Leaves of Grass
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Into this copy, Whitman has tipped 8 booklets of manuscripts, 52 leaves in all, as well as
typed copies of six of the booklets. The cover contains a handwritten note by Horace L.
Traubel about the finding of this copy. With
holograph letter of Anne Montgomerie Traubel to Oscar Lion, dated
May 12, 1928, describing the finding of this copy after Whitman's
death.
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