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Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

Last Of Ebb And Daylight Waning




  • Whitman Archive Title: [How they sweep down and out!]
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.00356
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress
  • Box: 1
  • Folder: Fancies at Navesink
  • Series: Manuscripts
  • Date: about 1885
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, 3 cm x 15 cm to 25 cm x 20 cm, handwritten
  • View Images: 1 | 2
  • Content: Draft lines of "Last Ebb, and Daylight Waning," first published along with seven other poems in The Nineteenth Century (August 1885), under the general title "Fancies at Navesink."

  • Whitman Archive Title: [Back to these fathomless deeps returning]
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.00358
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress
  • Box: 1
  • Folder: Fancies at Navesink
  • Series: Manuscripts
  • Date: about 1885
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, 3 cm x 15 cm to 25 cm x 20 cm, handwritten
  • View Images: 1 | 2
  • Content: Draft lines of "Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning," first published along with seven other poems in The Nineteenth Century (August 1885), under the general title "Fancies at Navesink."


  • Whitman Archive Title: [But Liquid utterance]
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.04152
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress
  • Box: 1
  • Folder: Fancies at Navesink
  • Series: Manuscripts
  • Date: about 1885
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, 3 cm x 15 cm to 25 cm x 20 cm, handwritten
  • View Images: 1 | 2
  • Content: Draft lines for "Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning," first published along with seven other poems in The Nineteenth Century (August 1885), under the general title "Fancies at Navesink."

  • Whitman Archive Title: [Smells of the sedge and the shore]
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.04161
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress
  • Box: 1
  • Folder: Fancies at Navesink
  • Series: Manuscripts
  • Date: about 1885
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, 3 cm x 15 cm to 25 cm x 20 cm, handwritten
  • View Images: 1 | 2
  • Content: Draft lines for the poem "Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning," first published along with seven other poems in The Nineteenth Century (August 1885), under the general title "Fancies at Navesink."


  • Whitman Archive Title: [Ebb—Tide ripples whisperings]
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.04174
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress
  • Box: 1
  • Folder: Fancies at Navesink
  • Series: Manuscripts
  • Date: about 1885
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, 3 cm x 15 cm to 25 cm x 20 cm, handwritten
  • View Images: 1 | 2
  • Content: Draft lines for the poem "Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning," first published along with seven other poems in The Nineteenth Century (August 1885), under the general title "Fancies at Navesink."

  • Whitman Archive Title: [With many a hurried abrupt confession]
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.05113
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress
  • Box: 1
  • Folder: Fancies at Navesink
  • Series: Manuscripts
  • Date: about 1885
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, 3 cm x 15 cm to 25 cm x 20 cm, handwritten
  • View Images: 1 | 2
  • Content: Draft lines for "Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning," first published along with seven other poems in The Nineteenth Century (August 1885), under the general title "Fancies at Navesink."

  • Whitman Archive Title: [How ye sweep down and out!]
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.05117
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress
  • Box: 1
  • Folder: Fancies at Navesink
  • Series: Manuscripts
  • Date: about 1885
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, 3 cm x 15 cm to 25 cm x 20 cm, handwritten
  • View Images: 1 | 2
  • Content: Draft lines for "Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning," first published along with seven other poems in The Nineteenth Century (August 1885), under the general title "Fancies at Navesink."



  • 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
  • View Images: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
  • 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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