[Np], [ca. 1938 or slightly later].. One page, in ink, on recto only of oblong sheet (15.5 x 20.5 cm) of plain paper. Tanning from former mounting strips on verso visible on recto at extreme edges, vertical fold across middle neatly reinforced on verso, otherwise a good example. Formerly from the Charles Feinberg collection. Thirteen lines plus full signature at end, ca. 120 words. A good manuscript example of one of Frost's "dark" poems, beginning: "It is getting dark and time he drew to a house,[/] But the blizzard blinds him to any house ahead...." It was first published in the SATURDAY REVIEW OF LITERATURE, February 1938, and then was collected in book form in Frost's Pulitzer- winning collection, A WITNESS TREE, in 1942, with the title slightly altered from "Willfull Homing," as it appears in this draft, to "Wilful Homing."

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Bookseller: William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: WRCLIT88552
Title: [Autograph Manuscript of:] "A WILLFUL HOMING."
Author: Frost, Robert
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Place of Publication: [Np]
Date Published: [ca. 1938 or slightly later].

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Recto: The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
Verso: The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...