Content:
On one leaf of white wove paper (15 x 9.5 cm), in medium-brown ink, with one
revision in the same ink. Pinholes mostly at top and in center. The two sets of
verses are divided by a short horizontal line. In 1860 the first set, with the
addition of a new first line ("Here my last words, and the most baffling,") became
section 44 of "Calamus"; the
poem was permanently retitled "Here
the Frailest Leaves of Me", and the new first line dropped, in 1867. The
second set was revised to form section 38 of "Calamus" in 1860; in 1867 it was further revised and
retitled "Fast Anchor'd, Eternal, O
Love."
