Content:
On one side of the leaf is a heavily revised prose fragment in which Whitman claims that his literary project has been to craft poetry which, rather than exemplifying conventional notions of poetic form, offers a faithful record of the writer's life and milieu. The relationship of this draft to any one of Whitman's published works is uncertain, though it resembles passages in several, including "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads" (1888) and "Note at End of Complete Poems and Prose" (1888). The other side of the leaf contains the last page of a letter to Whitman from James Matlack Scovel.
Content:
Manuscript of "Note at end of Complete Poems
and Prose," published in
Complete
Poems & Prose
(1888) and not
reprinted during Whitman's lifetime.
Whitman Archive Title: [Seems to me I may dare to claim a deep native]
Content:
Partial draft of "Note at End of Complete
Poems and Prose," which was published in
Complete Poems &
Prose
(1888) and not reprinted during Whitman's lifetime. No image
of the manuscript's verso is available.
