Content:
This is a two-page draft of "To
a Locomotive in Winter," first published in the 19 February 1876 issue of the
New York Daily Tribune
. It appears
that originally the two leaves were pasted together as one piece, but have
since come apart. On the verso of page two is a draft of an unpublished poem
entitled "The Soul and the
Poet," which may be a draft of the poem "Come, said my Soul," the
epigraph for the 1876, 1881–1882, and 1891–1892
editions of
Leaves of
Grass
.
Content:
These lines appear to be very early ideas connected with the poem first published as "Come, said my Soul" in the Christmas number of
the New York
Daily Graphic
,
December 1874,
then in the New York
Tribune
, February 19, 1876. This poem, signed by Whitman, became
the title-page epigraph of
Leaves
of Grass
, 1876 and 1891-92. The verso is blank.
Content:
A signed draft, heavily revised, of the untitled poem that Whitman used for some printings of
Leaves of Grass,
beginning in 1876. It was first published as part of "A Christmas Garland in Prose and Verse" in the
New York Daily Graphic
of December 25, 1874. The date in the poet's note at the top suggests that this manuscript might represent a revision stage later than the poem's initial publication.
Content:
Annotated draft of the untitled poem that begins "Come, said my Soul," which was first published in "A Christmas Garland of Prose and Verse" in the December 25, 1874 issue of the
New York Daily Graphic.
Later the poem was used, without title, as the title-page epigraph for
Leaves of Grass.
