[—the silent darting of many sand swallows]

Whitman Archive Title: [—the silent darting of many sand swallows]
Whitman Archive ID: ucb.00032
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Box: 1
Folder: 47
Repository Title: The silent darting of many sand swallows
Date: ca. 1876–1877
Genre: prose, poetry
Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten; printed
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Content: Prose notes in which Whitman provides a detailed sensory description of a pastoral setting, possibly the "charmingly recluse and rural spot along Timber Creek" where Whitman spent restorative time in the mid- to late-1870s. Lines from this manuscript appeared in "Sundown Perfume—Quail-Notes—The Hermit-Thrush," Specimen Days & Collect (1882–1883), which was later collected in Complete Prose Works (1892). On the verso of the third leaf is a corrected proof of "The Singer in the Prison," also described in this finding aid (see the entry for ucb.00001).