Skip to main content
-
Whitman Archive Title: [To the liquid]
-
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04285
-
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress
-
Box: 2
-
Folder: Trial titles
-
Series: Notes and Memoranda
-
Date: about 1888
-
Genre: prose, poetry, correspondence
-
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
-
View Images:
1
|
2
-
Content:
A series of short phrases, the longest of which is written with hanging
indentation. This manuscript probably contributed to the couplet "As
idly drifting down the ebb, / Such ripples, half-caught voices, echo
from the shore," which appears before the final paragraph of "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads,"
first published in
November Boughs
(1888). Most of "A Backward Glance
O'er Travel'd Roads" was drawn 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. On the reverse side of the
manuscript is a letter to Whitman dated November 14, 1884.
View All Works
