Content:
This is draft of "The Singer in
the Prison," a poem first published in December 25, 1869 issue of
Saturday Evening Visitor
with the subtitle "A Christmas Incident." Whitman included it, without subtitle, in the "Leaves of Grass" cluster of
Passage to India
(1871). Finally, in the 1881–82 edition it became part of the "Autumn Rivulets" cluster.
Content:
A corrected proof of the poem "The Singer in the Prison," first published in the
Saturday Evening Visitor
(25 December 1869), reprinted in
Passage to India
(1871) and
Leaves of Grass
(1881–1882 and 1891–1892). Notes in pencil indicate Whitman was thinking of a potential connection with Parepa Rosa, a famous nineteenth-century opera singer. The verso contains prose notes about horses.
