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.