Content:
An early draft entitled "The
Patrol at Barnegat," containing trial lines for the poem first published as "Patroling Barnegat" in the June 1880 issue of
The American.
On the
reverse of one leaf is a letter to Whitman from E. H. Hames & Co. of
The Literary World
magazine dated May 12,
1880.
Content:
A draft entitled "The Patrol
at Barnegat," containing trial lines for the poem first published as "Patrolling Barnegat" in the April 1881 issue of
Harper's Monthly Magazine.
The draft was originally
titled "The Sea Beach
Patrol," then "The Sea Shore Patrol," and finally "The Patrol at
Barnegat." On the verso of the draft are two receipts from
the Philadelphia Y.M.C.A., dated March 22, 1880 and April 15,
1880, and an unfinished letter from Whitman to John
Burroughs, dated August
20.
Content:
A proof sheet of "Patroling
Barnegat," with a correction in Whitman's hand. The poem was
first published as "Patrolling Barnegat" in the April 1881 issue of
Harper's Monthly Magazine.
Content:
A proof sheet of "Patroling
Barnegat," with a correction in Whitman's hand. The poem was
first published as "Patrolling Barnegat" in the April 1881 issue of
Harper's Monthly Magazine.
Content:
Proof sheet with handwritten corrections, apparently prepared for the
April
1881 publication of "Patroling Barnegat" in
Harper's Monthly
. The poem
had been first published in
The
American
in June 1880. It was later reprinted in
Leaves of Grass
(1881–82 and 1891–92).
Whitman Archive Title: [Wild, wild the storm and the]
Content:
A heavily revised draft of "Patroling Barnegat," first
published in the April 1881 issue of Harper's Monthly Magazine as "Patrolling Barnegat."
