15yo WALT WHITMAN\'S FIRST KNOWN PUBLISHED WORK IN 1834 NEW-YORK MIRROR NEWSPAPER
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15yo WALT WHITMAN\'S FIRST KNOWN PUBLISHED WORK IN 1834 NEW-YORK MIRROR NEWSPAPER:
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Complete November 29, 1834, issue of the New-York Mirror, Vol. XII, No. 22, pp. 169-176.
This is an eight-page newspaper in good condition, with scattered foxing, that contains the first published work of Walt Whitman.All pages are present.
In Specimen Days (1882), Whitman reminisced about his early journalism career and the delight he experienced upon seeing his first published articles in print:
[W]hen I was but a boy of eleven or twelve . . . I had a piece or two in George P. Morris’s then celebrated and fashionable ‘Mirror’ of New York city. I remember with what half-suppress’d excitement I used to watch for the big, fat, red-faced, slow-moving, very old English carrier who distributed the ‘Mirror’ in Brooklyn; and when I got one, opening and cutting the leaves with trembling fingers. How it made my heart double-beat to see my piece on the pretty white paper, in nice type.
The Journalism volumes in the Collected Writings of Walt Whitman recognize ashort three-paragraph article, “The Olden Time,”inthe November 29, 1834, issue of the New-York Mirror as Whitman’s first published work. Signed “W.,” it appears in the “Original Communications” section of the paper and was published when Whitman was only fifteen years old.SeeWalt Whitman, The Journalism, vol. 1, ed. Herbert Bergman, Douglas A. Noverr, and Edward J. Recchia (New York: Peter Lang, 1998), 1:xliii-xlv,1:3.
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