SPECIMEN DAYS AND COLLECT

Originally published by Reed Welsh & Co., Philadelphia, 1882
Copyright © 2014 by Melville House
Introduction copyright © 2014 by Leslie Jamison

First Melville House printing: November 2014

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Library of Congress
Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Whitman, Walt, 1819–1892.
  [Prose works. Selections]
  Specimen days; & Collect / Walt Whitman; introduction by Leslie Jamison.
    pages cm — (Neversink)
  ISBN 978-1-61219-386-1 (paperback)
  ISBN 978-1-61219-387-8 (ebook)
  1. Whitman, Walt, 1891–1892—Diaries. 2. Poets, American—19th century—Diaries. 3. United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Personal narratives. 4. United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Hospitals. 5. United States—Civilization—19th century. I. Jamison, Leslie, 1983– II. Whitman, Walt, 1819–1892. Specimen days. III. Whitman, Walt, 1819–1892. Collect. IV. Title. V. Title: Specimen days and Collect.
  PS3220.A1 2014
  818 .308—dc23

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Design by Christopher King

Cover photograph: Walt Whitman, 1863. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Divison.

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