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Embers of Ending Day
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Whitman Archive Title: Embers of Ending Day
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Whitman Archive ID: uva.00051
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Repository ID: #3829
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Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts at the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia
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Box: 1
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Folder: 31
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Date: between 1880 and 1888
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, 9.5 cm x 11 cm, handwritten
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Content:
The manuscript appears to be a draft of a title or titles. The lines on the
manuscript—"Embers of Ending Day," "Embers of day-fires mouldering"—are echoed in
the partial line "the embers left from earlier fires" in the poem "Continuities," which was published in the
New York Herald
on March 20, 1888 and included in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to later printings of
Leaves of Grass.
On the verso is a
note, dated December 28, 1880, confirming a request for a set of Whitmans's books:
"Dear Sir, I shall be glad to supply you with a set (Two Volumes) of my
books—There is only one kind of binding—Walt Whitman."
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