[curiously writes itself] | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: [curiously writes itself]
Whitman Archive ID: loc.01077
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Box: 36
Folder: Undated, "Twilight Whisperings," draft
Series: Literary File
Date: about 1870
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten
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Content: These manuscript pages reflect Whitman's experiences visiting the sick in hospitals in Washington during "the Secession War." Two lines from this manuscript, "At vacancy with Nature / Acceptive and at ease," were used as part of the poem Whitman presents in, "A Quintette," first published in Specimen Days & Collect (1882–1883) before being collected in Complete Prose Works (1892).