Content:
Whitman's diary from his trip to Canada in 1880. William White, in his edition of
Whitman's
Daybooks and Notebooks
, noted
a relationship between material in this notebook and the poem "The Pilot in the
Mist."
Whitman Archive Title: Fancies at Navesink, the Pilot in the mist
Content:
A draft of "Pilot in the
Mist," the first in the eight-poem sequence "Fancies at Navesink,"
first published in the August 1885 issue of
Nineteenth Century.
On the verso is a letter dated October 3, 1884 to Whitman from Richard Hines requesting information about Martin Farquhar Tupper.
