[Sky] | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: [Sky]
Whitman Archive ID: ucb.00041
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Box: 1
Folder: 57
Repository Title: Sky
Date: 1878
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
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Content: A partial draft of "The Sky—Days and Nights—Happiness," initially dated Oct 19 '78; however, Whitman seems to have been unsure about the precise date of these notes. Whitman seems to have revised this date more than once. In the upper-left-hand corner of the page Whitman indicates that these lines refer to a night in November: "? Later—Nov. Sky." The published version that appeared in Specimen Days & Collect (1882–1883) indicates that these notes describe a time "Early in November." "The Sky—Days and Nights—Happiness" was later published in Complete Prose Works (1892).