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Literary Manuscripts

Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

A Night Remembrance

  • Whitman Archive Title: [I sit by the edge of the pond]
  • Whitman Archive ID: ucb.00070
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
  • Box: 1
  • Folder: 41
  • Repository Title: A Night Remembrance
  • Date: 1878–1882
  • Genre: prose
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: Various scraps of paper, including an envelope addressed to Whitman from Richard Maurice Bucke, which have been pasted together to create one large leaf. These scraps comprise a nearly complete, though not unrevised, draft of "A Night Remembrance," first published in Specimen Days & Collect (1882–1883) and collected in Complete Prose Works (1892). On the verso of this manuscript is what appears to be a scrap of a letter.

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