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[I just spin out my notes]

  • Whitman Archive Title: [I just spin out my notes]
  • Whitman Archive ID: ucb.00014
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
  • Box: 1
  • Folder: 22
  • Repository Title: I just spin out my notes
  • Date: 1876–1882
  • Genre: prose
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: Three scraps of paper, pasted together to make one leaf. Whitman used lines from this manuscript in separate sections of Specimen Days & Collect (1882–1883). A large portion of this manuscript was revised and appeared under the heading, "Final Confessions—Literary Tests." The line which reads, "I must take notes (The ruling passion strong in sickness and—But I must not say it yet)," appeared slightly revised in the 29 January 1881 issue of The Critic, under the title "How I Get Around at 60, and Take Notes. (No. 1.)" before appearing in Specimen Days , as part of the section titled "New Themes Entered Upon."
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