Carols Closing Sixty-Nine | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: Carols Closing Sixty-Nine
Whitman Archive ID: duk.00056
Repository ID: MS q 20
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Date: about 1888
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A manuscript of suggestions for the title of a collection of poetry which eventually appeared under the heading "Sands at Seventy" in the 1888 volume of poetry and prose entitled November Boughs . The title "Carols Closing Sixty-Nine" appears here as one of the possible names for this collection. The reverse of this document contains the underlined words "Sands at Seventy" and a cancelled note reading "for annex to the preced," which corresponds to ideas expressed on the recto.