Content:
On one leaf of white wove paper (15 x 9 cm), in black ink, with revisions in the
same ink and in pencil. Whitman also penciled in the page number 16 in the
lower-left corner. Pinholes in center and at top. This page bears the same
papermaker's mark as 1:3:35. Twelfth in the original sequence "Live Oak, with Moss" (with
ornamental Roman numeral), it became section 42 of "Calamus" in 1860. In 1867 Whitman changed the poem to
an apostrophe, adding the first line "O Boy of the West!" (later removed) and
permanently retitling it "To a
Western Boy."
