Content:
This manuscript contains a draft version of a poem appearing with two alternative
titles: "Carols at Nearing
Seventy" and "Carols
Closing Sixty-Nine". A note at bottom states "Sent to Lippincotts." The
poem was first published with the title in the New York
Herald
, May 21, 1888. In the same year, this poem
appears in the annex
Sands at
Seventy
under the title "A
Carol Closing Sixty-nine".
Content:
An edited proof sheet with three poems: "Old Age's Lambent Peaks,"
"A Carol Closing
Sixty-Nine,"
"To Get the Final Lilt of
Songs," all published first in 1888. In addition
to corrections, Whitman has written a note to the printer at the top of
the page. Also included is an envelope with "printer's proofs, short
poems, Walt Whitman, 1888, (autographic)" written on it.
Content:
Several trial titles for "A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine," first published in
the
New York Herald
on
21 May 1888 and reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to
Leaves of Grass
the same
year.
Content:
This manuscript contains a draft version of a poem entitled "A Carol-Cluster at 69" which was
likely composed and edited around the time of its first publication in the New
York
Herald
, May 21,
1888. In the same year, this poem appears in the annex
Sands at Seventy
under the title
"A Carol Closing
Sixty-nine".
