Content:
Trial lines and notes for an unpublished poem. The first line begins, "As
half caught echoes." The relationship of this manuscript to Whitman's
published work is unknown.
Content:
This manuscript contains a draft version of the poem "By That Long Scan of Waves" included in the group of
poems "Fancies at Navesink".
The group was first published in
Nineteenth Century
, August, 1885.
Content:
A manuscript of suggestions for the title of a collection of poetry which
eventually appeared under the heading "Sands at Seventy" in the 1888 volume of poetry and prose entitled
November Boughs
. The title "Carols Closing Sixty-Nine"
appears here as one of the possible names for this collection. The reverse of
this document contains the underlined words "Sands at Seventy" and a
cancelled note reading "for annex to the preced," which corresponds to ideas
expressed on the recto.
Content:
This is a note, written on the reverse of a postmarked envelope, that offers the title "Sands on the Shores of Seventy &c &c for Annex to the preceding," as an alternative to the title "Sands at Seventy," which was first used for a cluster of poems in
November Boughs
(1888).
Content:
This manuscript contains titles for a contemplated cluster of poems, "Annex at 69" and "Fancies at Navesink & other
pieces 1883 to 88." The poem sequence "Fancies at Navesink" first appeared in the
August
1885 issue of
Nineteenth
Century
. The eight poems from this sequence were then reprinted
in a section of
November
Boughs
entitled "Sands at Seventy" in 1888, which then became an annex to
Leaves of Grass
that same
year. The poems reappeared under the heading "Fancies at Navesink," although still part of
"Sands at Seventy,"
in 1891. The
manuscript was matted, along with a Frederick Gutekunst
photograph of Whitman. Because of the matting, the verso of the manuscript
is not accessible.
Content:
The words "Supplement-Sands" are written in blue crayon on a scrap of
paper, apparently torn from a letter. The verso features the beginning
of the letter from an autograph seeker, written in Lisbon, NH, 28 January 1884.
