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said in an 1888 conversation about the first edition that "I set up some of it myself: some call it my
tread scares the wood-drake and wood-duck on my distant and daylong ramble" ( [1855], 20).
good will, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering it freely forever.— Scattering
in a penciled revision into the single line "Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns,"
Good-Bye My Fancy: 2D Annex to Leaves of Grass. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891. .
They are not in condition to be able to let their accounts lay uncollected without embarrassment, and my
Bliss Perry, with my kindest regards—Ellen M. Calder. June 24, 1906."
Brown"; in pen (probably Mitchell's hand), "Given to my son Langdon March 1887". Dr.
Emory Holloway / My dear Mr.
Holloway, / You ask for some history of my 'Leaves of Grass' and I find myself rather vague as to my
My father-in-law, Thomas [illeg.]