Content:
Thirty-three manuscript leaves numbered consecutively by Whitman in the lower left
corner. "Premonition" was
published as the introductory poem to the 1860 edition of
Leaves of Grass
under the title "Proto-Leaf." In the 1867 and
later editions it appeared directly after the opening poem "Inscription" as "Starting from Paumanok." On the
verso of leaf 15 and part of leaf 16 appears a draft of what would become section
11 of "Calamus" in the 1860
Leaves of Grass
.
