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This manuscript is a signed fair copy of three verses from numbered section 6 of
the 1881
Leaves of Grass
version of a poem
published under the title "Thou
Mother with Thy Equal Brood"; his note "
Leaves of Grass
/ page 350," corresponding to the
pagination of the 1881 edition, appears beneath the lines. Whitman seems to have
prepared this copy for an admirer, with his signature appearing in huge letters
above the lines "Camden New Jersey / April 19 1886—."
