Harned box / Whitman folder
Manuscripts 
Poetry file
“As Consequent, etc.” c 1881
(L. C. 27)[*27 [Portion of an early draft of] As Consequent, Etc. [1881] 1 p. (scrap)
13 x 14 1/2 cm. Five-line holograph, in ink with revisions in pencil and ink.
Portion begins: "some threading Ohio's farm-fields or the woods."
First published in the seventh edition of Leavers of Grass (1881).
Reverse of a form letter from the Camden and Atlantic Railroad Co. transmitting to Whitman a complimentary pass for the year 1881.*]

[Rivulets]  some [meander through] threading Ohio's
[the field farm-fields, or
[in] the woods
Some [pouring] down [fr as from]
Colorado's [mountains] Canops [from] from sources
[the] of eternal snow.
Some finding their way to [Michigan]
Erie, Niagara, Ottawa,
Some to [the bays] Atlantics bays
and so to the great salt [sea] brine.

Some [to with in their] half-hid [threads] in Oregon - or
southward in Texas. 

[*B*]
Office of the Secretary and Treasurer,
CAMDEN & ATLANTIC RAILROAD CO.

Camden, N.J.,  Jany 25_ 1881

Walt Whitman Esq


Dear Sir:

Enclosed herewith please find
Complimentary Pass over this Road for the
present year.

Please acknowledge receipt, and oblige