[off, dim and filmy in their outlines]

Whitman Archive Title: [off, dim and filmy in their outlines]
Whitman Archive ID: tex.00460
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: 2
Folder: 1
Series: Works, 1846-1913 and undated
Date: between 1855 and 1860
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Prose fragment, showing moderate revision, of approximately 150 words. Phrases and ideas from this manuscript were incorporated in the poem "Unnamed Lands," first published in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass . The manuscript on the reverse, tex.00030, was probably written earlier, as it contributed to a poem first published in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass and eventually titled "The Sleepers."