Content:
The verso letter is dated "Aug 14th /89," and asks Whitman to send the
unidentified writer a copy of the "latest special edition" of
Leaves of Grass
. These trial verses
became part of "A Twilight
Song"—subtitled, "for unknown buried soldiers, North and South"—which
was first published in theMay, 1890
Century
and then included in the
second annex "Good-Bye My
Fancy" in the 1892 "deathbed" edition of
Leaves
.
Content:
Proof of "A Twilight
Song," which was first published in 1890, with
corrections in Whitman's hand and with notes from both Whitman and the printer.
Content:
Late draft, with a few corrections, of "A Twilight Song," a poem first published in the May 1890 issue of
Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine,
where it was subtitled "For unknown buried soldiers, North and South." It was reprinted, without the subtitle, in
Good-Bye My Fancy
(1891) and in the "Good-By my Fancy" annex of
Leaves of Grass
(1891–92).
Content:
A two-line draft written on the back of an envelope from F. Gutekunst's
Imperial Photograph Galleries, with a note by Whitman on front that
reads "head and bust WW, taken 1889, fairly good." "[A flash of love]"
would later appear in a revised form in "A Twilight Song," first published in 1890.
