[? to conclude 'Footsteps']

Whitman Archive Title: [? to conclude 'Footsteps']
Whitman Archive ID: ucb.00007
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Box: 1
Folder: 12
Repository Title: As I loiter amid a scene
Date: 1876–1882
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A heavily revised prose fragment which features the heading, "? to conclude 'Footsteps.'" "Footsteps" was possibly a working title for Specimen Days & Collect . The final line of the prose fragment—"In serene hours, to the Soul, of a fine day or night, Nature seems to look even on the best Poetry and Art as something foreign, something almost impertinent"—appeared with some revisions in "Final Confessions—Literary Tests," Specimen Days & Collect (1882–1883). On the verso of this manuscript is a portion of a letter from J. S. Smith to Whitman, requesting the poet's autograph.