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Last of ebb, and daylight waning

  • Whitman Archive Title: Last of ebb, and daylight waning
  • Whitman Archive ID: yal.00046
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
  • Box: 3
  • Date: 1885
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten
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  • Content: This is a draft on three leaves of the poem "Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning," published as part of "Fancies at Navesink" in the August 1885 issue of Nineteenth Century . The manuscript has the cancelled title "At the Mouth of the River." On the reverse of the first leaf is a letter from J. M. Rollo, requesting an autograph, dated January 12, 1885. This manuscript is bound with others under the title "Fancies at Navesink."

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