[Good-bye, My Fancy. "American National Literature"] Fragment of essay. Undated, unsigned.
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Title
[Good-bye, My Fancy. "American National Literature"] Fragment of essay. Undated, unsigned.
Collection
Walt Whitman papers, 1854-1892
Series I. Manuscripts
Names
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 (Creator)
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1890 - 1891 (Approximate)
Library Location
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Shelf locator: Berg Coll MSS Whitman
Shelf locator: m.b. Whitman, S - Whitman, Walt Holographs
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Notes
Publications: Published as "Have We a National Literature?" in the North American Review, March 1891, 332-338, this passage on page 335. Later published in Good-bye, My Fancy (1891) as "American National Literature."
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Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b15520479
Archives ID: 19100
Digital Gallery Image ID: m_1169330
Digital Gallery Image ID: m_1169331
Other local Identifier: 66B1083
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 384da020-22ea-0130-8352-58d385a7b928
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Date Issued
1890
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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "[Good-bye, My Fancy. "American National Literature"] Fragment of essay. Undated, unsigned." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1890 - 1891. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/384da020-22ea-0130-8352-58d385a7b928
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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. (1890 - 1891). [Good-bye, My Fancy. "American National Literature"] Fragment of essay. Undated, unsigned. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/384da020-22ea-0130-8352-58d385a7b928
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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "[Good-bye, My Fancy. "American National Literature"] Fragment of essay. Undated, unsigned." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 12, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/384da020-22ea-0130-8352-58d385a7b928
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