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Walt Whitman’s Poem About Duluth?

There’s a new posting at the Reference@Duluth blog that involves a little literary detective work:

The Duluth Daily News of March 30, 1892, printed a letter offering an unpublished poem by Walt Whitman. The letter writer claims that Whitman had visited Duluth for his health the previous summer and had been so impressed with the Zenith City that he wrote a poem in praise of Duluth and had sent it to a friend in town.