Rose Mary (corrected holograph fragment, Bancroft Collection)

These pages contain three distinct parts of the ballad. The first two pages represent what Paull Baum has described as “several experiments in different meters” with the ballad “Rose Mary” that DGR was beginning to work up in the summer of 1871. They are followed by two pages containing the earliest known text of the poem's opening. These pages are closely related to the fragment of the poem that is housed in the Fitzwilliam Museum's bound volume of Poems and Sonnets manuscripts. The Delaware pages immediately precede the latter in the composition sequence. Finally, the last page here is a fair copy, with some corrections, of the third Beryl Song.

The first two parts of the manuscript were written in 1871; the Beryl Song belongs to 1879.