Content:
Signed manuscript, lightly revised, of the poem "The Prairie States,"
which was first published, in manuscript facsimile, in
The Art Autograph
in March 1880. It was later printed in the 1881–82 and later printings of
Leaves of Grass.
Content:
This is a late draft, probably for the printer, of "The Prairie States," which
was first published in 1880. It is signed and dated March 16,
1880.