This is one manuscript leaf folded into four sides. It contains DGR's
directions for the printing of the front matter for his 1870
. The text must have been made sometime in February 1870; it was used
for setting the type for the
(Many poems in this volume
were written between 1847
and 1853. Others are of
recent date, and a few belong
to the intervening period. It
has been thought unnecessary
to specify the earlier work,
as nothing is included which
the author does not believe
to be matured to the measure
of his powers.)