Content:
"Bravo, Paris
Exposition!" was published in
Harper's Weekly
33, 28 September 1889. It
was reprinted in
Good-Bye My
Fancy
(1891) and in
Leaves of Grass
(1891–1892). According to a letter from
Whitman to R. M. Bucke, this poem was also reprinted in the French paper
"Le Temps." This proof has been pasted down to a backing sheet, rendering the
verso inaccessible.
Content:
Signed draft of a poem with a variation in line 1 from the printed
version. On the verso, written in pencil: "Can you use this? Put it
under the "Personal" head like you did a year ago? "The price is $10,
which please send me by mail here." In ink is the start of another
sentence: "If you don't want it." The poem was published under the title
"Bravo, Paris
Exposition!" in 1889.
Content:
A proof sheet of "Bravo,
Paris Exposition!" with corrections in Whitman's hand. At the
top is a note reading "See notes, Oct 31, '89." "Bravo, Paris
Exposition!" was published in 1889.
Content:
A proof sheet of "Bravo,
Paris Exposition!" with corrections in Whitman's hand. At the
top is a note in Traubel's hand: "Rec'd from W.W. Sept 30,
'89". "Bravo,
Paris Exposition!" was published in 1889.
