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The verso letter is dated "Aug 14th /89," and asks Whitman to send the
unidentified writer a copy of the "latest special edition" of
Leaves of Grass
. These trial verses
became part of "A Twilight
Song"—subtitled, "for unknown buried soldiers, North and South"—which
was first published in theMay, 1890
Century
and then included in the
second annex "Good-Bye My
Fancy" in the 1892 "deathbed" edition of
Leaves
.
