Frost, Robert

An autographed manuscript signed and inscribed, "A Preview for Nita and Doc from R.F., After a good Bread Loaf, 1946."

• Robert Frost (American).
• 16 pages.
• Includes 8 poems that would be published in Steeple Bush (1947).
• Inscribed for Reginald Lansing Cook (1903-1984) and his wife Lydia Juanita Cook.
• Side-stitched, with custom green half-morocco slipcase and matching chemise.

Included Poems:

1) "To an Ancient"

2) "Something to Hope For": variant title ["Something for Hope" in published book]; line 12 starts "And in" (as in E38), rather than "And with" in book; line 15 has "noxious weed" rather than "wasteful weed" in book; line 17 starts "A cycle of say" (as in E38), rather than "A cycle we'll say" in book; line 21 ends in an exclamation point ("!") but in a comma (",") in the book

3) "One Step Backward Taken"

4) "Why Wait for Science"

5) "But He Meant It": variant title, first published as such in The Atlantic Monthly (April, 1947) ["The Broken Drought" in book]

6) "The Courage to Be New": has a quatrain, listed here as a postscript, that is cut in the published book: No one cavails at their killing / And being killed for speed. / Then why are we unwilling / They should do as much for creed? [The third line appears in E42, the fourth line appears in E38, with punctuation from E42]

7) "A Mood Apart"

8) "Bravado"