"5" [Scheherazade and the Sultan]

Night 127

1) "While his fair wife." Ink, draft paper

Night 128

2) "The 1002nd night. Beside his still fair wife." Ink, draft paper.

Night 130

3) "While his still fair wife, who still hadtales untold." Ink, pencil. Six sketches.

Night 129

4) "I seek. Unembroidered. Unmodulated. Unmitigated. Unmoderated." Ink, pencil..

Merrill noted on Manuscript 7 of "Postcards from Hamburg": "What makes 'The 1002nd Night'* beautiful is that it respects the emotions - respects both the 'low' and the 'high' as imbued with poetry, courtesy, sadness. How grateful I am for it. *last 16 lines." Manuscript 7 in "Carnivals" also contains a draft of the final poem about Scherherazade and the Sultan.