Title: The Air
Creator: Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00069
Source: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library. Transcribed from digital images of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
Editorial note: At one point, this manuscript likely formed part of Whitman's cultural geography scrapbook.
Contributors to digital file: Nicole Gray, Farrah Lehman, Ashlyn Stewart, and Kevin McMullen
The Air (Space)
considered with reference to the earth—as all ^parts of the universe bear reference to each other, and all other things therefore bear down their influence more or less upon this earth.—
A Description of those things that may be said to be most closely related toidentified with the air, (—for movement, visibility, occupancy &c) as the orbs, space, light, heat (—as Silliman says—Cosmical—not Terrestrial)
The Sea
All the wonders of the Sea—the Sea covering three-fourths of the land
The Land
Physical facts of the land—as first its nebulous beginning—then its geology all through to the present—then its present beauty, reality, & diversity, as the home of man.—