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Whitman Archive Title: [?Part of the Sky]
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Whitman Archive ID: ucb.00039
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
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Box: 1
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Folder: 55
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Repository Title: Part of the sky
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Date: 1876–1877
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
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Content:
A heavily revised draft fragment of "The Sky—Days and Nights—Happiness," a section of prose that appeared in
Specimen Days & Collect
(1882–1883) and was later published in
Complete Prose Works
(1892). This manuscript includes Whitman's notes and thoughts on Byron, happiness, and the "German legend of the King's Bell." Whitman composed this draft on the verso of a letter sent from Richard J. Hinton, dated 12 December.
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