BIB_ID
343934
Accession number
MA 8645
Creator
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Display Date
undated [ca. 1868].
Credit line
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2013.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 24.5 and 21.7 cm
Notes
The poem was accepted by John Morley for publication in the Fortnightly Review (for April 1869) and possibly by James T. Fields for the Atlantic Monthly, but it was not printed in either periodical. The text first appeared in print, slightly altered, in Whitman's Passage to India (1871).
With a penciled note in the upper margin of the first page: "Tom - set up same style as before & send me a proof by middle of the week - W." Tom is Thomas Rome, of the Rome brothers, in whose Brooklyn office the first edition of Leaves of Grass was printed.
With a penciled note in the upper margin of the first page: "Tom - set up same style as before & send me a proof by middle of the week - W." Tom is Thomas Rome, of the Rome brothers, in whose Brooklyn office the first edition of Leaves of Grass was printed.
Provenance
Given by Thomas Rome to Ulysses S. Scollay; given by Scollay to Mrs. St. Clair McKelway and in her possession in 1911; in the Colgate family until 1986; purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2013.
Summary
A three-stanza (25 lines) poem later slightly altered and incorporated as part five of his Passage to India (1871).
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