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[and many an autumn sight]

  • Whitman Archive Title: [and many an autumn sight]
  • Whitman Archive ID: ucb.00037
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
  • Box: 1
  • Folder: 53
  • Repository Title: —and many an autumn sight
  • Date: 1876–1882
  • Genre: prose
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
  • View Images: 1 | 2
  • Content: Two scraps of paper pasted to a backing sheet to make one leaf. These scraps feature draft lines which appeared slightly revised in the 29 January 1881 issue of the The Critic as part of "How I Get Around at 60, and Take Notes. (No. 1)," under the section heading "Autumn Scenes and Sights." Whitman continued to revise this piece of prose, eventually publishing it as "Autumn Side-Bits," Specimen Days & Collect (1882–1883).

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