Physical Description: number of leaves unknown, handwritten
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Brief note of just eight words, outlining the possibility of a "Poem of the Sunlight." A transcription of this manuscript, the current location of which is unknown, was published by Richard Maurice Bucke in
Notes and Fragments
(London, Ontario: A. Talbot & Co., printers, 1899), 174. Edward F. Grier, editor of Whitman's
Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts
(New York: New York University Press, 1984), 4:1383, suggests that this manuscript might be related to the poem "Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun," which was first published in the 1865 volume
Drum-Taps.