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[—the silent darting of many sand swallows]
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Whitman Archive Title: [—the silent darting of many sand swallows]
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Whitman Archive ID: ucb.00032
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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: 47
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Repository Title: The silent darting of many sand swallows
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Date: ca. 1876–1877
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Genre: prose, poetry
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Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten; printed
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Content:
Prose notes in which Whitman provides a detailed sensory description of a pastoral setting, possibly the "charmingly recluse and rural spot along Timber Creek" where Whitman spent restorative time in the mid- to late-1870s. Lines from this manuscript appeared in "Sundown Perfume—Quail-Notes—The Hermit-Thrush,"
Specimen Days & Collect
(1882–1883), which was later collected in
Complete Prose Works
(1892). On the verso of the third leaf is a corrected proof of "The Singer in the Prison," also described in this finding aid (see the entry for ucb.00001).
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