Content:
A manuscript comprised of two separate sheets pasted together to make one leaf. Portions of this manuscript were used in "Emerson's Books, (The Shadows of them)," which first appeared in the 22 May 1880 issue of the
Boston Literary World
. Portions of the essay were reprinted in the
New York Tribune
on 15 May 1882 under the title, "A Democratic Criticism. By Walt Whitman." The essay finally appeared in
Complete Prose
(1892) as "Emerson's Books, (The Shadows of them)."
Content:
Notes about Emerson and democracy, probably toward
what would become the 1880 essay "Emerson's Books, (The Shadows of Them.)," which appeared in the May 22, 1880,
Boston Literary World.
It was reprinted in part in the
New York Tribune
on May 15, 1882, as "A Democratic Criticism. By Walt Whitman." Finally, it appeared in
Specimen Days & Collect
(1882–83). The notes on the other side, tex.00462, probably contributed to the preface Whitman wrote for the 1876 issue of
Leaves of Grass
and
Two Rivulets
as a two-volume set.
Content:
This manuscript contains notes that Ed Folsom suggests "seem to be early (1872) notes toward what would eventually become Whitman's 1880 essay" on Emerson. "Emerson's Books (The Shadows of Them.)" first appeared in the
Boston Literary World
on 22 May 1880. It was later reprinted as "A Democratic Criticism. By Walt Whitman" in the
New York Tribune
(15 May 1882). Finally, it appeared in
Specimen Days & Collect
(1882–1883) and
Complete Prose Works
(1892) under the first title. For more on how this manuscript relates to "Emerson's Books," and to read a transcription, see Ed Folsom, "Whitman's Notes on Emerson: An Unpublished Manuscript,"
Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
18.1 (Summer 2000), 20-62.
Whitman Archive Title: Emerson's Books, (the shadows of them)
Content:
Partial galley proof, with corrections and marginal note, of an essay first published in the May 22, 1880, issue of the
Literary World
(Boston). In 1882, a revised version was published under the same title in the "Notes Left Over" section of
Specimen Days & Collect
.
