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[Good-bye, My Fancy. "American National Literature"] Fragment of essay. Undated, unsigned.

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M_1169330


Item data

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

Genres

Manuscripts
Essays

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."

Physical Description

Extent: 1 leaf
[1 written side], mounted. Draft in pencil with revisions in both pencil and ink. MS mounted on larger sheet (the verso of The Artisan's letterhead stationery). Note written in ink on larger sheet below bottom right of MS: "A page of Whitman manuscript sent to [Edward] Gordon Craig by Horace Traubel: 1907."

Languages

English

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

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Text

Date Issued

1890

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MLA format

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

APA format

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

Chicago/Turabian Format

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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