Sail out for good, Eidólon yacht

Whitman Archive Title: Sail out for good, Eidólon yacht
Whitman Archive ID: tex.00067
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin
Box: bv6
Series: Works, 1846-1913 and undated
Repository Title: Good-bye My Fancy: Sail out for Good, Eidólon Yacht
Date: 1890
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Heavily revised draft, nine lines, of "Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht!" which was first published in Lippincott's Magazine in March 1891. It was reprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891). Whitman's note at the bottom calls the manuscript rough crude outlines and dates it July 25 1890. Included with the manuscript is a three-page letter to Alfred, Lord Tennyson, dated 1878, drafted on the reverse sides of letters from Berry Young and Richard M. Bucke.