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Night of south winds
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Whitman Archive Title: Night of south winds
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Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00078
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Repository: Catalog of the Literary Manuscripts in The Oscar Lion Collection of Walt Whitman, The New York Public Library
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Repository Title: Ms. leaf recto (Night of south winds — Night of the large few stars ..)
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Date: Between 1850 and 1855
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, approximately 19.5 x 19 cm., handwritten
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Content:
Whitman probably drafted this manuscript between 1850 and 1855 as he was composing the first (1855) edition of
Leaves of Grass
. Words and imagery from the manuscript appear in the first poem of that edition, eventually titled "Song of Myself."
On the reverse (nyp.00733) are lines used in a different part of the same poem.
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