Content:
Fragment, heavily revised, of the preface to
Two Rivulets
(1876). Several of the leaves are made of scraps pasted together,
and on the reverse of the fourth leaf is a draft fragment of the opening
lines of a poem first published in the
Galaxy
(September 1867) as "A Carol of Harvest, for 1867," which was
ultimately titled "The Return
of the Heroes,"
Leaves of Grass
(1881–1882).
Content:
This manuscript contains a list of trial titles and subtitles which were
possibly considered by Whitman when he was preparing the Centennial
edition of
Leaves of Grass
together with
its companion volume,
Two Rivulets
,
published in 1876.
Content:
This manuscript contains a list of trial titles which Whitman possibly
considered to use in
Two Rivulets
, the
companion volume to the Centennial edition of
Leaves of Grass
published in 1876.
Content:
This manuscript contains a few trial titles which Whitman possibly
considered to use when he was preparing the Centennial edition of
Leaves of Grass
together with its companion
volume,
Two Rivulets
, published in 1876.
