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Price Discovers Whitman Papers

Ken Price, Hillegass University Professor of American Literature and CDRH co-director, recently discovered nearly 3,000 documents in Walt Whitman's handwriting. Price uncovered the documents, which are housed at the National Archives and date to the period Whitman was a clerk in government offices during the Civil War and Reconstruction, with support from NHPRC. The documents will appear on the Walt Whitman Archive in fall 2011. The full announcement from the National Archives can be found here.

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