Content:
Proof pages of six poems collected under the general title "Old-Age Recitatives."
The poems included are: "Old Chants" (1891), "On, On the Same,Ye Jocund
Twain!" (1891), "Sail Out for Good, Eidólon
Yacht!" (1891), "L. of G.'s Purport"
(only two lines of the twelve-line poem of the same title first
published in 1891), "My task" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in
1891), and "For
us two, reader dear" (1891). At the top of the first page is a note to the printer
in Whitman's hand.
Whitman Archive Title: On, On the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!
Content:
Three proof sheets of "On,
On the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!," first published in 1891. One proof has several corrections and a note for the
printer; the other two proofs have no annotations.
Content:
An early draft of "On, on
the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!," which was published first in
1891. The draft is written on a letter from Albert Johannsen
(dated March 22,
1890), and two opened envelopes (one postmarked April 27,
1890).
Content:
A draft of "On, on the Same,
Ye Jocund Twain!," which was published first in 1891. On the verso is a note in Whitman's hand reading "to
my 2d & last Annex for L of G."
Whitman Archive Title: On, on awhile ye jocund twain
Content:
Heavily revised draft, approximately fourteen lines, of "On, on the Same, Ye Jocund
Twain!," a poem first published in
Good-Bye My Fancy
in 1891.
Whitman Archive Title: On, on the Same, ye Jocund Twain, Proof with handwritten corrections
Content:
Heavily revised proof sheet of "On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!" The poem
first appeared in
Good-Bye My
Fancy
in 1891. This proof has been pasted to
another sheet and no verso image is available.
