Content:
This manuscript contains a draft version of a poem appearing with two alternative
titles: "Carols at Nearing
Seventy" and "Carols
Closing Sixty-Nine". A note at bottom states "Sent to Lippincotts." The
poem was first published with the title in the New York
Herald
, May 21, 1888. In the same year, this poem
appears in the annex
Sands at
Seventy
under the title "A
Carol Closing Sixty-nine".
