22 numbered leaves ... The revisions are chiefly Frost's, though an extensive passage on leaf 6 is in the hand of George Frisbee Whicher. Accompanied by a letter to Howe from John S. Van E. Kohn, May 31, 1938, detailing the history of the manuscript, from its typing by "one of his closest Amherst friends" (presumably Whicher), to whom Frost (after revision) then gave it, who in turn gave the manuscript to Genevieve Taggard, who sold it to raise money for the Spanish Loyalist cause.

RF MS 5

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