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Whitman Archive Title: Supplement Hours
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00302
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
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Box: 29
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Folder: Supplement Hours. A.MS. drafts.
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Series: Literary File
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Date: about 1880
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
Draft and trial lines probably written around 1880. These lines are directly related to "A Clear Midnight," first published in
Leaves of Grass
in 1881. The lines that appear in this manuscript also were published posthumously as "Supplement Hours," a poem that formed part of a cluster entitled "Old Age Echoes," included in an edition of
Leaves of Grass
compiled by Whitman's literary executors and published in 1897 (Boston: Small, Maynard). The first line begins "Sane, easy, homely."
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