Content:
This manuscript contains a draft version of the note that appears in brackets
before the start of the poem titled "Orange Buds by Mail from Florida" and first published in the New York
Herald
, March 19,
1888. A note at the bottom of the page states: "Sent to H March 17"
indicating the draft was likely completed around the time of publication. On the
verso the words "Walt Whitman" and "Camden New Jersey" are written in an unknown
hand.
