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Let me unroll the extensive panorama of my own personality. 1.
about 1889poetryhandwritten1 leaf21 x 27.5 cm; Signed draft of a poem with a variation in line 1 from
see notes April 6 1888 1 East 28 th. St. New York City Dec. 29. 1884 Dear Mr.
Christ Church Oxford 1. 11. 84 Dear Sir, I wish to thank you most heartily for your gift to me which
grateful to you and that I am yours faithfully FredkYork Powell Frederick York Powell to Walt Whitman, 1
glued to the first leaf and constituted the first part of the note in red pencil at the top of leaf 1
stick to me for a book & say that if I am not content with the usual 10 per cent, they will publish on 1/
Rolleston to Walt Whitman, 1 January 1884
$3 autograph edition of Leaves of Grass —yours of some weeks since sending $2 was received—leaving $1
I have got to get out of this house too, & very soon—for the new tenants take possession April 1.
Camden Sunday Jan 13 [1884] 1½ p m I am going out to a small dinner party of friends, & am sitting here
Camden New Jersey October 1 1884 Received from Critic Fifteen Dollars for my piece " What Lurks " &c—
Gilder, 1 October 1884