Content:
Bound proof corrected extensively in Whitman's hand. This correction was
probably for the 1881 edition of
Leaves of Grass
. Opposite a portrait of Whitman, the title
page reads, "Starting From Paumanok, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's
Corrected Proof—." "Starting From Paumanok" was first published as "Proto-Leaf"in 1860.
