Content:
A draft of "After the Supper and
Talk". This poem was rejected by
Harper's
in 1885 but published in
Lippincott's Magazine
in November
1887, after which it eventually became the final poem in the "First
Annex" titled "Sands at
Seventy." To the verso are pasted sections 16 and 18-19 of "Poem of Joys" (final title:
"A Song of Joys") clipped
either from the independent book
Passage
to India
(1871) or from the "Passage to India" supplement to
Leaves of Grass.
Content:
Draft of poem later revised and published as "After the Supper and Talk" in 1887. On verso detached from
Leaves of Grass
, part of "Poem of Joys," first
published in the 1860 edition of
Leaves of Grass
, and later published as
"A Song of
Joys." The title "Poem of Joys" is in Whitman's hand.
Content:
A proof of "After the Supper
and Talk," with corrections (all punctuation) in ink and two
words written in purple pencil: "30 Copies." This poem was published
first in 1887.
Content:
Proof of a collection of four poems ("You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me,"
"'Going Somewhere,'"
"After the Supper and
Talk," and "Not
Meagre Latent Boughs Alone") under the general title "November Boughs." This
proof is made by pasting together proofs of each poem in the order
desired.
Content:
Proofs of a collection of four poems ("You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me,"
"'Going Somewhere,'"
"After the Supper and
Talk," and "Not
Meagre Latent Boughs Alone") under the general title "November Boughs."
Content:
Signed draft of the poem "After the Supper and Talk," which was first submitted to
Harper's
in 1885 but was rejected. It was later published in
Lippincott's Magazine
in November, 1887. This manuscript draft, however, may well have been intended for neither journal because of the reference to "volume" in the bracketed note. In
November Boughs
(1888) Whitman used "After the Supper and Talk" as the concluding poem in the volume; it was followed by numerous prose pieces. On the reverse of this manuscript leaf is pasted a proof sheet from the poem eventually titled "Song of the Exposition," with one correction.
Content:
Clipping from a newspaper of four Whitman poems: "You Lingering Sparse Leaves
of Me,"
"'Going Somewhere,'"
"After the Supper and
Talk," and "Not
Meagre Latent Boughs Alone." At the top is the title "November Boughs." At
the bottom of the clipping is written, in Whitman's hand, "1887." The poems
were published first in
Lippincott's Magazine
, November,
1887.
