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Sands at Seventy

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  • Title: Sands at Seventy
  • Date: Late 1880s
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: yal.00020
  • Source: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Transcribed from digital images of the original. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: "Sands at Seventy" was the title of a collection of poems that first appeared in November Boughs (1888) and was later included as an "annex" to the final printings of Leaves of Grass. This manuscript was probably written in the late 1880s.
  • Related Item(s):
    • The back of this manuscript leaf is an opened envelope addressed to Whitman and postmarked March 6, 1888. See yal.00476.
    • See wwa.00050.
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Sands at Seventy." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 19 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: yal.00020.xml (TEI)

Key

Textual Feature Appearance
Overwritten brown with strikethrough
Added inline purple with double underline
Uncertain gray with wavy underline
Supplied from another source turquoise with brackets
Metamark green with triple underline
Long deletion gray background with top and bottom border
  [begin leaf 1 recto] 554
? Or Sands at Seventy Sands on the Shores  
 of Seventy  
 &c &c for Annex to the preceding
  [begin leaf 1 verso] 62
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