Certainties, Faith, Counterbalances, Alternation

Whitman Archive Title: Certainties, Faith, Counterbalances, Alternation
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00075
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Box: 26
Folder: Certainties, Faith, Counterbalances, Alternation. A.MS. draft.
Series: Literary File
Date: about 1887 or 1888
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 25 x 20 cm, handwritten
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Content: Written in ink on the back of a discarded letter (cancelled by a diagonal strike) from Talcott Williams, this draft appears to be trial lines for the poem later published as "Continuities" in the New York Herald , March 20, 1888.