Bound by collector. On the recto are approximately 18 lines, heavily revised, including language that appeared in the first poem of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, later "Song of Myself," section 21. On the verso are approximately 12 lines, heavily revised, related to a different section of the same poem, eventually section 31.

Two pieces of paper hinged together on the long side, all corners trimmed. Approximately fourteen lines, heavily revised, of the first poem of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, eventually titled "Song of Myself." These lines are from sections 31 and 32, as numbered in the 1891-92 edition. The verso has two prose notes, the first about the frequent meanness of men of high social standing and the second about the wisdom of keeping "clean inside and out." The leaf was formerly cut between the verso-side notes, probably by Whitman, and has been rejoined.

Second copy. In original pink paper covers. Whitman's own copy, with his ms. note: 2d & fullest version of original edition 1855-56. With 8 booklets of manuscript, 52 leaves in all, fastened in, and typed copies of six of them laid in. With autograph of Horace L. Traubel, 1892, and his ms. note about the finding of this copy. With holograph letter of Anne Montgomerie Traubel to Oscar Lion, dated May 12, 1928, describing the finding of this copy after Whitman's death.

Revised draft of Passage to India, with several printed clippings pasted into the manuscript and the first page autographed by Whitman. Mounted and bound in green morocco.This draft is accompanied by a typewritten memorandum by Emory Halloway, typewritten letters, signed by Amy Lowell, August 25, 1920, and by Clifton Joseph Furness, January 18, 1928, to Oscar Lion. There is also a typed copy of the autograph manuscript of this poem in the Amy Lowell Collection at Harvard University, and other printed ephemera bearing on the provenance of this draft.

Lightly revised draft of a poem titled "Sounds of Winter too." "Sounds of the Winter" was one of four poems belonging to the "Old Age Echoes" group first published in Lippincott's Magazine 47 (March 1891) and then reprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891). On the reverse are references to Good-Bye My Fancy and to "Sounds of Winter," as well as to a "Putnam 1902 Edition." There is also a postage stamp dated 18 October 1889. In brown leather volume of Whitmaniana.

Heavily revised draft of the poem "When I Read the Book" that extends onto the verso. The poem was first published in the 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass with the title, "When I Read the Book." In brown leather volume of Whitmaniana.

About seven lines, with revisions, toward the poem "To the Year 1889." The reverse features a reference to the title of this poem, as well as to Good Bye My Fancy and a "Putnam 1902 Edition." "To the Year 1889" was published first on January 5, 1889, in the Critic. The poem was later retitled "To the Pending Year." In brown leather volume of Whitmaniana.