FEINBERG/WHITMAN LITERARY FILE POETRY FILE "Sparkles From the Wheel" (1871). [A?].MS.draft. (DCN 8a)
Box 29 Folder 311853 SPARKLES FROM THE WHEEL; a poem. A.MS.S. (2p. 4 x 17 cm.)  [*695*]

Trial lines: "And there of a forenoon by the curb, a knife grinder carefully
holding a knife, bending over his wheel, turning it with his foot." In published
form these lines read: "By the curb toward the edge of the flagging a 
knife-grinder works at his wheel sharpening a great knife. Bending over he
carefully holds it to the stone, by foot and stone" etc,.

The other fragment written in ink and corrected in pencil: "See the profuse
sparks like gold! See the gits and showers flying off from the wheel,"
and the end of the finished poem: "Diffusing, dropping, sideways-darting,
in tiny showers of gold, Sparkles from the Wheel."

Published first in Autumn Rivulets, Leaves of Grass, 1881.  {8a}Casings, Stair Rail, Basement Stairs, Shed Roof, Stoop & Door Yard.  "For
the above Walt Whitman furnishes all the materials, wood and hardware."
Endorsed: "Specifications with Selleck."  {4}

1852 June 14  SPECIFICATIONS AND RECEIPTS FOR CARPENTER WORK
FOR HOUSES ON CUMBERLAND AVENUE. A.MS. on light blue paper.
 (2p. 30 x 20 cm.)
As a contractor Walt Whitman wrote the agreement between "M.S. Scofield,"
carpenter and "Walt Whitman, Jr." for "framing, and setting partitions,
enclosing with weather boards, furnish windows and outside door frames . . . 
for the sum of six hundred and thirty five dollars--. . . to pay in certain
instalments . . . and the balance when the job is complete."  Followed by four
 receipts for part-payment signed by M. S. Scofield June 26, July 3rd, July
17th and Sept. 6th, 1852.  Agreement and receipts were written out by53        [21]

See the profuse sparks like gold! See the
little jets and showers flying
off from the wheel!--[See the profuse
sparks, like gold:]

And there of a forenoon, by the curb, a knife=grinder,
carefully holding a knife, bend[s]ing over
his wheel, turning it with his 
foot.