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Walt Whitman up close

Students transcribe the poet’s handwritten documents at the Penn Libraries in advance of his 200th birthday celebration.
Student looking closely at a rare document in a plastic sleeve he is holding, while seated in a library.
The Penn Manuscript Collective is a group of students who meet on Fridays to transcribe rare documents at the Penn Libraries. Sophomore Henry Hung, a philosophy major, examines an early handwritten draft of  “Going Somewhere” by poet Walt Whitman. 

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