Content:
Three manuscript fragments that contributed to "An Old Man's Rejoinder," which was first
published in the August 16, 1890 issue of the
Critic
and later reprinted in
Good-Bye My Fancy
(1891) and
Complete Prose Works (1892). On the reverse of the second manuscript leaf is the
end of a letter from Otto L. Levy.
Whitman Archive Title: [Somewhere I have found Carlyle announcing]
Content:
Manuscript notes, heavily revised, apparently for the preface to
Whitman's 1891 volume
Good-Bye My Fancy,
although the printed preface (titled
"Preface Note to 2d Annex, Concluding L.
of G.—1891") incorporates very few of the actual words
and phrases from this manuscript. The preface was later reprinted,
without change, in the 1891-92 printing of
Leaves of Grass.
On the reverse is a letter from Louisa
Drewry, dated July 10, 1890.
Content:
This manuscript is a draft of "An Old Man's Rejoinder," first published in the
Critic
17 (16 August 1890) before being reprinted in
Good-Bye My Fancy
(1891). Some of the versos include envelopes and letters to Whitman from A. Edward Newton, Charles A. Burkhardt, Charles B. Campbell.
