After all, not to create only
Subtitle: recited by Walt Whitman on invitation of managers, American Institute, on opening their 40th annual exhibition, New York, noon, September 7, 1871.
Contributors: Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909, former owner.; Forman, H. Buxton 1842-1917, former owner.; Evans, Montgomery, former owner.; Donaldson, Thomas, 1843-1898, former owner.; Groves, John Stuart, former owner.; American Institute of the City of New York.; Carolyn Wells Houghton Whitman Collection (Library of Congress); Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress); John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Roberts Bros.
Published: 1871
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Other titles: Walt Whitman's American Institute poem
Description: Seventeen kings and forty-two elephants romp with a variety of jungle animals during their journey through a wild, wet night.
Notes: Myerson, J.  Whitman, p. 180-182
BAL, 21405
Myerson 2nd edition.
Myerson describes 2 states of binding, "A" (flexible cloth boards) and "B" (cloth boards, beveled edges).
LC copy in Myerson binding A (green). Inscribed by the author to A.C. Swinburne.