Page 1: [poem] " After the heat has hung upon these granite walls Suddenly thunder comes, and the rain falls Over the boulders, over the jewelled ferns As far as me discern."

Page 3-4: 9-26-37 [poem] Transcontinental I. Farewell to New England "The sweeping threads of long-expected rains."

Page 5-6: n.d. II. Vermont: Green mountains. "Here, by the roadside edge"

Page 7-11: 9-26-37 III. Elmira: with Thoughts of mark Twain "Here, in these lordly hills."

Page 13-16: 9-27-37 IV. Second Day's Waking "I waked at early dawn"

Page 17-20: 9-28-37 V. Crossing the Alleghanies "When the white man came hitherward afar"

Page 21-23: 9-29-37 VI. The Great Lakes. "The roll of the long-ridged hills."

Page 24-25: 9-29-37 VII. Over the Prairie. "Over the prairie, armies of ripening grain"

Page 26-28: 9-29-37 VIII. Prairie Earth "The prairie earth is dark;"

Page 29-30: 9-30-37 IX. Changing Landscape "The maples have run out; the white birch fades;"

Page 31-35: 10-1-37 X. Richmond, Indiana: the Old Hotel. "On busy, bustling streets of a new town" [p. 33 a torn half-page; Section XI torn out?]

Page 35-39: 10-10-37 XII. New Salem. "There was feasting, death and love"

Page 40-42: 10-10-37 XIII. Sunset: New Salem to Springfield "The heat guenched its blaze at the last"

Page 43-44: 9-24-37 [sic] XIV. Ballad of a Dark Prairie "As we came over the dark prairie"

Page 45-46: 10-12-37 XV. Hannibal: Mark Twain Again "The plains stretch flat no more"

Page 47-48: 10-13-37 XVII. [sic] Kansas City "Fired by a fierce electric energy" The End October 13, 1937

Page 49-51: 10-20-37 XVI. Towards Kansas: Grasshopper Dance "I would not change the rhythm of this land"

Page 57: 11-19-37 [poem] Elegy on the Ivory Tower. [toto] "Across the plains"

Page 59-60: 11- 15 or 16- 37 [poem] Dawn and Nightfall "Many are the poems made by man"

Page 61-62: 11-11-37 The Resurrection. Theme for poem.

Page 63: n.d. [poem] Snow. "Slow Over the sombre prairie."

Page 65: n.d. [fragment] "Not in the seething skies. nor in the stars Here happiness is found Caught in the steady heartbeat Of human heart to ground--"

Page 67-71: n.d. [poem] Christmas, 1937 "thirty hears past and gone"

Page 73-74: n.d. [poem] For the 21st Century "When the white light that/kindled the earth be gone

Page 77: n.d. [poem] The World "Not better, but failing"

Page 75-80: n.d. random jottings on Southern Tenant Farmers Union

Page 89: 4-10-38 Christ Church Poem (thought of on Palm Sunday, April 10, 1938) “Christ the Plough”

Page 93: n.d. [poem] The magnolia Poem [toto] "The untidy tree of the South-- Untidy because it blossoms while old leaves are dying

Page 95-96: n.d. notes on play "The House Commands"--or "The Past Regained"

Page 97-99: n.d. [poem] Lament for the Lost Forest (from the Green Rising) "Year upon year, day after day"

Page 103-105: n.d. [poem] The Abandoned Homestead "Nothing is neighbor, "

Page 107: 5-19-38 [poem] may 11, 1938 "Thanks to the invisible powers"

Page 113: n.d Northeast Passage Scheme of Poems--

I. The Ricefields

II. Cypress Swamp

III. memphis--Old South and New

IV. Huntington, Tenn--Hill town

V. Cumberland Country

VI. At the Appalachians

VII. Lee's Tomb--Lexington

VIII. Harper's Ferry

IX. Gettysburg Sonnet

X. Pennsylvania--Lancaster

XI. New York Approach

XII. New England

None Written

Page 115: [elegy on Lee ?] "In the eternal glory that shines on the defeated"

Page 117: [fragment] "Nothing succeeds like success Nothing bleeds like a vein Of pure gold, unless pain Has made its heart less."

Page 119: " Series of Poems on Time (considered as a fragment of eternity Cricket Time Ant Time mosquito Time Eating Time (the Chickadee and I) War Time Eastern Time Central Time Mountain Time

[fragment] "Hare in new ways unskilled Your three years are fulfilled And have left ynu for better or worse With a·few more handfuls of verse To give the world."

Page 121: n.d. notes for short story "The mist Across the River"

Page 125-126: EAR and four women who loved him