Content:
Galley proofs of
November
Boughs
(1888), with numerous corrections. Also
included is a title page, with printing instructions in Whitman's
hand.
Content:
Galley proofs of
November
Boughs
(1888), with numerous corrections. Also
included is an uncorrected title page, which seems to incorporate the
changes Whitman requested on the title page in another set of corrected
proofs for
November
Boughs
; compare the title page for this set of proofs with
the first image of loc.00031.
Content:
This manuscript is an early draft of the first part of the essay "The Bible as
Poetry" published in the
Critic
on February
3, 1883 and then included, with the same title, in
November Boughs
, published in 1888
(later retained in the
Complete Prose
Works
, published in 1892). On the verso is a letter from D.W. Zimmerman to Whitman, dated 13 January 1883.
Content:
Proof of a collection of four poems ("You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me,"
"'Going Somewhere,'"
"After the Supper and
Talk," and "Not
Meagre Latent Boughs Alone") under the general title "November Boughs." This
proof is made by pasting together proofs of each poem in the order
desired.
Content:
Proofs of a collection of four poems ("You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me,"
"'Going Somewhere,'"
"After the Supper and
Talk," and "Not
Meagre Latent Boughs Alone") under the general title "November Boughs."
Content:
Clipping from a newspaper of four Whitman poems: "You Lingering Sparse Leaves
of Me,"
"'Going Somewhere,'"
"After the Supper and
Talk," and "Not
Meagre Latent Boughs Alone." At the top is the title "November Boughs." At
the bottom of the clipping is written, in Whitman's hand, "1887." The poems
were published first in
Lippincott's Magazine
, November,
1887.
Content:
A collection of papers, some of which are print proofs with handwritten
comments, some of which are small scraps of handwriting, relating to
both poetry and prose from
November
Boughs
(1888).
