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Whitman Archive Title: [May 16, 17]
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Whitman Archive ID: ucb.00003
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
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Box: 1
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Folder: 54
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Repository Title: Birds—And a Caution
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Date: 1881
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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A series of notes, dated 16–17 May 1881. The line which reads "the vocal shuttle of the whip-por-will" appeared nearly verbatim in "Birds—And a Caution, "
Specimen Days & Collect
(1882–1883). "Birds—And a Caution" later appeared in
Complete Prose Works
(1892). This manuscript bears similarities in phraseology with "Sunday morning," a manuscript held in the Feinberg collection at the Library of Congress, which may be a revised draft of this item.
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