Content:
An original manuscript leaf that was tipped into a copy of the Author's Manuscript Edition of
The Complete Writings
of Whitman, published by Putnam in 1902. The manuscript is a draft leaf which comprises a portion of "How I Still Get Around at Sixty and Take Notes. No. 6,"
Critic
(15 July 1882). Whitman later retitled this piece and reprinted it as "Hours for the Soul" in
Specimen Days & Collect
(1882–1883) before including it in
Complete Prose Works
(1892). The manuscript incorporates three lines from "A Broadway Pageant," a poem which first appeared as "The Errand-Bearers,"
Brooklyn Daily Times
(27 June 1860). Whitman revised the poem as "A Broadway Pageant (Reception Japanese Embassy, June 16, 1860)" in
Drum-Taps
(1865); reprinted it in
Leaves of Grass
(1867) and
New York Citizen
(5 September 1868). The poem first appeared under its final title in the 1871–1872 edition of
Leaves of Grass
.