Content:
On two leaves of pink paper, both 21 x 13 cm, in black ink, with revisions in the
same ink and in light ink. Pinholes mostly in center and in left margin of each
page. This poem was first numbered 94, and the first word was "Stranger"; Whitman
penciled in a question mark, in parentheses, next to the title. It was numbered
section 22 of "Calamus" in
1860: the lines on the first page correspond to verses 1-6 of the 1860 version,
and those on the second ("You give me the pleasure") to verses 7-10. Whitman
reintroduced the title "To a
Stranger" in the 1867
Leaves
.
