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Whitman Archive Title: [Footsteps]
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Whitman Archive ID: ucb.00009
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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: 16
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Repository Title: Footsteps
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Date: 1876–1882
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Genre: prose
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content:
Draft lines and trial titles headed "Footsteps," apparently intended for a preface of some sort. "Footsteps" was possibly a working title for
Specimen Days
. A single line from this manuscript, "Only the undulations of my Thought beneath under the Night and Stars—or at midday looking out upon the Sea," appeared slightly revised in "Final Confessions—Literary Tests,"
Specimen Days & Collect
(1882–1883). Whitman included
Final Confessions—Literary Tests
in
Complete Prose Works
(1892).
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