FEINBERG/WHITMAN   LITERARY FILE   POETRY FILE   "Mannahatta" (1888). Newspaper clipping
Box 27  Folder 34
Includes A. MS. corrections & notations

[*Nov Boughs*]

[*- shores.*]

MANNAHATTA.
My city's fit and noble name resumed,
Choice aboriginal name, with marvellous beauty,
meaning
A rocky founded island, where ever gayly dash
the coming, going, hurrying sea waves.

[*(ital*]

[pub in Herald 
Feb 27 '88]

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After 1888 27 February Mannahatta: corrections. A. MS. (1p .20
X 141/2 cm.)
Written in blue, purple and pencil, and in ink, corrections to 
the newspaper version of ‘Mannahatta’, and other words, 10 in all:

Nov: Boughs [blue]

                                  
MANNAHATTA
My city’s fit and noble name resumed, [*clipped from newspaper*]
Choice aboriginal name, with marvelous beauty,
     meaning
A rocky founded island where ever gaily dash.     [*(Ital        [*ink*]
[*pencil*] —shores,      the coming, going, hurrying sea waves.     [*underlined in ink*]

[pub in Herald]  —[*pampl*]
 [Feb 27 ‘88]
 [*blue*]
  

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