Publications: Text published in Edward F. Grier’s edition of the Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984), p. 1309, with the text taken from Bucke’s Notes and Fragments

Abstract

Manuscript note written in pencil on a scrap of blue paper, probably 1850s. Possibly notes for "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life” (1860). Verso is currently inaccessible because the manuscript is pasted down at both its left and right sides onto the larger blank leaf to which it is mounted. In Volume III of: Walt Whitman. Holograph manuscript fragments assembled by Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke.

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Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b19877231
RLIN/OCLC: 851581980
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 6a0d6af0-c5d9-012f-12aa-58d385a7bc34

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "sea-cabbage" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1850 - 1859. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6a0d6af0-c5d9-012f-12aa-58d385a7bc34

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. (1850 - 1859). sea-cabbage Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6a0d6af0-c5d9-012f-12aa-58d385a7bc34

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "sea-cabbage" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 7, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6a0d6af0-c5d9-012f-12aa-58d385a7bc34

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