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Literary Manuscripts

Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

Mature Summer Days And Nights

  • Whitman Archive Title: The wild carrot
  • Whitman Archive ID: ucb.00098
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
  • Box: 1
  • Folder: 67
  • Repository Title: The Wild Carrot
  • Date: 1878–1879
  • Genre: prose
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: This manuscript consists of three smaller scraps of paper that have been pasted together to form a larger sheet. The first part of this manuscript was slightly revised and used nearly verbatim in "Mature Summer Days and Nights." The second and third scraps were revised and contributed to "Distant Sounds." Both of these prose pieces first appeared in Specimen Days & Collect (1882–1883), and were included in Complete Prose Works (1892).


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