Content:
This manuscript contains the footnote for poems "Now Precedent Songs, Farewell" and "An Evening Lull," first published in "Sands at Seventy," an annex of
November Boughs
in 1888. According to Horace Traubel, the footnote was written by Whitman on 19 June 1888 (
With Walt Whitman in Camden
[Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906] 1:353).