Content:
Printer's copy of the poem "A Death-Sonnet for Custer" with instructions to preserve the
manuscript in its current form for Bayard Taylor. "A Death-Sonnet for
Custer" first appeared in the
New York Daily Tribune
on 10 July 1876. It was then
reprinted as "From Far
Dakotas Cañons" in
Leaves of Grass
(1881–82).
