361
1890 June Note on Editions:prose. A.MS. (2p. 6 x 12 1/2 and 15 x 23 cm.) 23 cm.)

Written in ink on a slip of paper (cut from a larger sheet) and pinned to a larger sheet, the verso of a cancelled (by a diagonal ink stroke) and discarded letter on a letterhead of S. W. Cowles, Dealer in Farm Loans, Real Estate and Insurance, 891 Main Street, Hartford, Conn. (June 7th 1890 Mr. Walt Whitman Camden, N.J. Dear Sir Will you be kind enough to send me your autograph for my private collection.--I enclose blank cards. Most Truly Yours S. W. Cowles.), 9 words (on small sheet) and 16 words:
(in ink)
Page 240
Centennial Edition
O Sun of Real Piece
on verso: 1200
105
576
75
100
20.56

the beauty of the Ship
is it left out last edition?
See 1876 ed'n (in blue pencil_
P247Put in the beauty of the Ship

is it left out last edition?
See 1876 ed'n p 247

page 240
Centennial Edition
O Sun of Real PieceS.W. COWLES,
Dealer in
Farm Loans, Real Estate and Insurance,
891 MAIN STREET,

Hartford, Conn., June 7th 1890

Mr. Walt Whitman
Camden, N.J.
Dear Sir
   Will you be kind
enough to send me your 
autograph for my private
collection.--I enclose blank
cards.

Most truly yours
S W Cowles


1200
  105
  576
    75
  100
_______
2056Correction, Copy
for Dr. B's W. W.
L of G.
pages 48'9 cut out 
Specimen Days

imperfect


[*443*]

Correction Copy: note. A.MS. (1p. 20 x 13½ cm.)

Written in pencil, last line in ink, on a pale green sheet 
which may have been the paper cover of flyleaf of a book, 17 
words:

Correction copy 
for Dr. B's W W 
L of G
Pages 48'9 cut out
Specimen Days

imperfectWalt Whitman's Books.
Leaves of Gr
Out of these at last
the truer Univu

Annealed like the earth by
fire & convulsion



645

Assorted Notes.  A.MS. (1p. 13 1/2 by 13 1/2 cm.)

Written in ink on a piece of paper, with bottom torn off, apparently
meant to be ad copy at first, cancelled, then two unconnected
notes, 24 words:

Walt Whitman's Books.

Leaves of Gr
Out of these at last
the true Univu

Annealed like the earth by
fire & conculsion155
On 'Leaves of Grass': note. A.MS. (1p. 14 x 16 cm.)
Written in ink with a words on top in red ink on a scrap of tan paper pasted to a smaller scrap from the bottom of a discarded letter ('if possible know if this be so, and will remit immediately for much as you may send. With great respect John N Randall.), 84 words:

*M Note f
* I accept with joy, (and only hope it is true) what Dr Bucke gives as his enclosing summary of [[my poems]] the Leaves,--that their construction is bedded upon so thoroughly and reverent a faith in God's schemes of Nature and Humanity, [[and their results,]] that the ordinary words [[like]] optimism and the like [[but]] faintly describe it. But the qualities [[here just just]]mention'd, (perhaps resting on, or coming from, the other,) are,as I see it now [,] the main ones.* M Note of

*I accept with joy, (and only
hope it is true) what Dr Bucke
gives as his enclosing summary
of [my poems] the Leaves, that their construction
is bedded upon so thorough and 
reverent a faith in God's schemes
of Nature and Humanity, [and their]
[results] that the ordinary words
[like] optimism and the like [but] 
faintly describe it.  But the
qualities [perc] just mention'd, (perhaps
resting, [on] or coming from, the
other,) are as I see it now 
the main one'sif possible.
Know if this be so, and will remit
immediately for much as you may
send.
With great respect
John  N RandallL of G
[??] "Sands at Seventy" & Backward
                                        Glance

Miniature ed'n
not book bd'g


902

Miniature Edition Leaves of Grass: note.  A.MS. (1p. 7 x
16 1/2 cm.)

Written in ink on a scrap of paper cut and torn from a larger
sheet, 15 words:

L of G
[?] th "Sands at Seventy" & Backward
Glance

Miniature ed'n
not book bd'g