Content:
The manuscript appears to be a draft of a title or titles. The lines on the
manuscript—"Embers of Ending Day," "Embers of day-fires mouldering"—are echoed in
the partial line "the embers left from earlier fires" in the poem "Continuities," which was published in the
New York Herald
on March 20, 1888 and included in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to later printings of
Leaves of Grass.
On the verso is a
note, dated December 28, 1880, confirming a request for a set of Whitmans's books:
"Dear Sir, I shall be glad to supply you with a set (Two Volumes) of my
books—There is only one kind of binding—Walt Whitman."
Content:
This manuscript contains a draft of the poem first published in the New York
Herald
, March 20,
1888 with the title "Continuities". A note at the bottom of the page states "Sent to H March
17" indicating the draft was likely completed near the time of publication.
Content:
Written in ink on the back of a discarded letter (cancelled by a
diagonal strike) from Talcott Williams, this draft appears to be trial
lines for the poem later published as "Continuities" in the New York
Herald
, March 20, 1888.
