Feinberg/Whitman Literary File Poetry File "Old Age Recitatives" (1891). A.Ms. draft (DCN107).
Box 28 Folder 4
Includes partial verso letter from unknown,
undated. Also includes poem "Sail Out
For Good, Eidolan Yacht!"1890 Nov. OLD AGE RECITATIVES; a poem. A. MS. on verso of slit 
envelope which is pasted to the back of a discarded letter.
(1p. 30 x 20 cm.)
Manuscript of the first poem printed in Good-Bye My Fancy, 1891. Autograph
note across margin: "Sent to 'Arena' magazine Nov 90 rejected —sent
back. The editor sent word sneeringly he already had 'a great lot of poetry
at hand' " (see also no. 105).   (107)Also: Typescript with many corrections ([11p. numbered ? to ? 72 x ?])
cm.)  First two paragraphs wanting.  End in Walt Whitman's handwriting,
initialed Walt Whitman.   {111}

[1891 Good-Bye My Fancy; Complete original manuscript.
A.MS. (112p. Various sizes)
The manuscript begins with 5 numbered pages containing Table of Contents,
79 pages of text numbered by Walt Whitman, and additional sections
lettered A B C D, etc.]Old Age Recitatives Chorus (line through)
By Walt Whitman
(Sideways)
sent to "Arena" 
magazine Nov. '90
rejected-- sent back
the editor sent word
sneeringly he already
had "a great lot of poetry 
on hand"
Sail out for good. Eidolon yacht!
Heave the anchor short!
Raise main-sail and jib-steer forth.
O little white-hull'd sloop, now speed on
really deep waters.
(I will not call it our concluding voyage. 
But outset and sure entrance to the truest,
best, maturest;)
Depart-depart from solid earth-no more
returning to these shores,
Now on for aye our infinite free venture
wending. 
Spurning all yet tried ports, seas, howsers,
densities, gravitation
Said out for good, eidolon yacht of me!Mr. Walt Whitman-
Poet
Camden
New Jersey

Camden, N. J. 
Dear Sir;—
I am an
earnest collector of the autographs of
prominent men; and would be
greatly pleased to place your autograph among
those of some grand poets, such as I
have among my treasured list. As those
of Whittier, Holmes, and Lord Tennyson,
and may I soon place your autograph
among those who you are worthy to be placed.
Dear Sir, Oliver W. Holmes kindly wrote
for me his poem, "The Last Leaf"; and Tennyson
wrote for me the first verse of his beautiful
"Break Break Break," Would you kindly
do likewise.   How I would treasure
a poem from "the good gray poet."
Sir, if you wish to comply with