- unitid
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{"value"=>"188321", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS 188321", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b23715669", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"circa 1874-1892", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1874/1892", "certainty"=>"approximate"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Walt Whitman \"Come, said my Soul,\" \"A Thought of Columbus,\" and envelope to Peter Doyle manuscripts"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 oversize folder, 2 folders", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"0.03 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was a 19th-century American poet, essayist, and journalist. The Walt Whitman manuscripts, dating from circa 1874 to 1892, comprise two autograph manuscript poems, \"A Thought of Columbus\" and \"Come, said my Soul,\" and an autograph envelope."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. He grew up and spent much of his career in Brooklyn, New York. Whitman's famous poetry collection, <span class=\"title\">Leaves of Grass</span> (1855, 1891-1892), was continuously expanded, revised, and republished during his lifetime. The collection celebrated the body, soul, nature, and democracy.</p> <p>During the Civil War, Whitman worked as a government clerk in Washington, D.C., and nursed wounded soldiers. Those experiences influenced his poetry collection, <span class=\"title\">Drum-Taps</span> (1865). Whitman's widely recognized poems, \"O Captain! My Captain!\" (1865) and \"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd\" (1865), addressed the death of President Lincoln.</p> <p>Whitman died in Camden, New Jersey in 1892.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Walt Whitman manuscripts, dating circa 1874 to 1892, consist of two autograph manuscript poems and an autograph envelope compiled by Susan Jaffe Tane.</p> <p>The autograph manuscript poem, \"Come, said my Soul\" (circa 1874), consists of two joined leaves with emendations in Whitman's hand. This poem became the title page epigraph for <span class=\"title\">Leaves of Grass</span>.</p> <p>The autograph manuscript poem \"A Thought of Columbus\" (Camden, March 1892) is in the hand of Anne Traubel with holograph corrections by Whitman. In addition to corrections, Whitman also signed the manuscript. The manuscript also has an inscription in the upper margin of the first page in the hand of Whitman's literary executor, Horace Traubel.</p> <p>The autograph envelope (October) is addressed to Peter Doyle in the hand of Whitman.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Susan Jaffe Tane, 2024.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>This item was donated by Susan Jaffe Tane in 2024 alongside manuscripts, poems, and letters of Samuel Clemens (Berg Coll MSS 188320), Charles Dickens (Berg Coll MSS 186712), Oliver Wendell Holmes (Berg Coll MSS 188319), Edgar Allan Poe (Berg Coll MSS 188317), and Henry David Thoreau (Berg Coll MSS 188318), which have been described separately.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by <span class=\"name\">Amy Lau</span> in <span class=\"date\">2025</span>.</p>"}
- date_start
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1874
- keydate
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1874
- date_end
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1892
- date_inclusive_start
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1874
- date_inclusive_end
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1892
- extent_statement
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0.03 linear feet (1 oversize folder, 2 folders)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Walt Whitman \"Come, said my Soul,\" \"A Thought of Columbus,\" and envelope to Peter Doyle manuscripts, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library"}