[Ripple and echoes from the]

Whitman Archive Title: [Ripple and echoes from the]
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04236
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress
Box: 1
Folder: "Drift Sands"
Series: Manuscripts
Date: about 1888
Genre: prose, poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Manuscript containing draft versions of lines that appear before the final paragraph of "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads" as the couplet "As idly drifting down the ebb, / Such ripples, half-caught voices, echo from the shore." First published in November Boughs (1888) "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads" was mostly made up of material from three previously published pieces: "A Backward Glance on My Own Road (1884)," "How I Made a Book" (1886), and "My Book and I" (1887). The couplet, however, was not part of any of those earlier essays.