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[I do not feel to write]

  • Whitman Archive Title: [I do not feel to write]
  • Whitman Archive ID: tex.00228
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin
  • Box: 1
  • Folder: 5
  • Series: Works, 1846-1913 and undated
  • Repository Title: I do not feel to write…
  • Date: about 1867
  • Genre: prose
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: This prose fragment, heavily revised, is almost certainly part of the draft material that contributed to the essay eventually titled Democratic Vistas, published as a pamphlet in 1871. This long essay was originally organized as a series of three shorter pieces, The first two of which were published in The Galaxy , under the titles "Democracy" (December 1867) and "Personalism" (May 1868).

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