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Whitman Archive Title: Fancies at Navesink
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Whitman Archive ID: loc.00327
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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.
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Box: 27
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Folder: Fancies at Navesink (1885). Proof Sheets.
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Series: Literary File
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Date: about 1885
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Genre: poetry
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Physical Description: 1 leaf, 48 x 15 cm, handwritten
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Content:
An oversized proof of "Fancies at Navesink," a group of poems first published in
1885. The poems in this cluster are: "The Pilot in the
Mist,"
"Had I the Choice,"
"You Tides with Ceaseless
Swell,"
"Last of Ebb, and Daylight
Waning,"
"Proudly the Flood Comes
In,"
"By That Long Scan of
Waves," and "Then Last of All." In this proof, the poems "Last of Ebb, and Daylight
Waning" and "And
Yet Not You Alone" are not separated, and "And Yet Not You Alone"
appears as the final stanza of the first poem. This proof is grouped
with two others at the Library of Congress. The proofs have no editorial
corrections, but one (pictured here) is signed by Whitman and another
contains a note in another hand reading, "from the papers of Walt
Whitman given to Mosher by Traubel 1906."
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