Content:
Printer's copy of the poem "A Child's Reminiscence," which appeared in the
New-York
Saturday Press
on
24 December 1859. This poem later appeared as "A Word Out of the Sea"
in
Leaves of Grass
(1860); as
"Out of the Cradle
Endlessly Rocking" in "Sea-Shore Memories,"
Passage to India
(1871);
and finally in "Sea
Drift,"
Leaves of Grass
(1881–82).
