Content:
Proof sheet of "To the Year
1889" (first published in 1889 and later
under the title "To the
Pending Year") with a bibliographic notation in Whitman's
hand.
Content:
A draft of a poem titled "Down, down, proud gorge." At the bottom of the same leaf is
another draft of a poem entitled "Are they last words?" These drafts were
later greatly revised and combined when published in 1889 with the
title "To the Year
1889," later re-titled "To the Pending Year."
Content:
This is a late draft of "To the
Year 1889," published first on January 5, 1889, in the
Critic
. Retitled "To the Pending Year," the poem appeared in
Good-Bye My Fancy
in 1891.
Content:
A proof of the poem "To the
Year 1889," first published in 1889, with a note in Whitman's
hand about its publication in the
Critic
. The poem was later published as
"To the Pending
Year."
Content:
About seven lines, with revisions, toward the poem "To the Year 1889."
The writing on the verso (not in Whitman's hand) makes reference to
the title of this poem, as well as to
Good-Bye My Fancy
and a "Putnam 1902
Edition." "To the Year
1889" was first published on January 5, 1889, in the
Critic
. The
poem was retitled "To the Pending Year" for its inclusion in
Good-Bye My Fancy
(1891)
Content:
Page proof with handwritten information on the poem's initial publication
in the
Critic
on 5 January
1889. Retitled "To the
Pending Year," it was included in
Good-Bye My Fancy
(1891) and, as part of the "Good-Bye my Fancy" annex, in the so-called deathbed edition of
Leaves of Grass
(1891–92).
