Content:
Notes on the women of the Van Velsor family. Portions of this manuscript contributed to "Some Personal and Old-Age Jottings,"
Good-Bye My Fancy
(1891).
Whitman Archive Title: Whitman, Walt, poet, was born May 31
Content:
Portions of this manuscript appeared in "Some Personal and Old-Age Jottings," first published in
Good-Bye My Fancy
(1891). Portions of this manuscript were also used in "Autobiographic Note. From an old 'remembrance copy,'" in
Camden's Compliment to Walt Whitman, May 31, 1889: Notes, Addresses, Letters, Telegrams
(Philadelphia: David McKay, 1889).
Content:
Draft of "Some Personal and Old-Age Jottings," first published in the March 1891 issue of
Lippincott's Magazine
under the title, "Some Personal and Old-Age Memoranda." This prose piece remained largely unchanged between its first printing in
Lippincott's
and its appearance in
Complete Prose
(1892). However, the version published in
Lippincott's
includes a transcription of
Ralph Waldo Emerson's 21 July 1855 letter
in praise of
Leaves of Grass
, along with a short commentary on Emerson's relationship to Whitman—both of which Whitman did not include in
Complete Prose
. On the verso of this manuscript is a letter addressed to Whitman, dated 19 June 1889. Based on the date of this incoming letter and the date "Some Personal and Old-Age Jottings" was first published, this manuscript must have been composed between 1889–1891.
Content:
Partial draft of the essay published as "Some
Personal and Old-Age Memoranda" in the March 1891 issue of
Lippincott's
Monthly Magazine.
The leaf is made from a proof copy of
"Autobiographic Note. From an old
'remembrance copy,'" which had appeared in Horace Traubel's
1889 volume
Camden's Compliment to
Walt Whitman,
to which is pasted an envelope addressed in the hand of Richard Maurice Bucke to
Whitman. The essay was reprinted as "Some
Personal and Old-Age Jottings" in the February 28, 1891 issue of
The
Critic,
in
Good-Bye My Fanc
y
(1891), and in
Complete Prose Works
(1892).
Content:
A list of authors and books, some with specific editors and editions noted. Many of the authors and books which appear on the list (including the specification of a certain edition) are included in an essay entitled "Some Personal and Old-Age Memoranda," in which Whitman offers a description of objects which can be found strewn about the floor of his Camden home, "some quite handsome editions, some half cover'd by dust, some within reach, evidently used." The piece first appeared in the March 1891 issue of
Lippincott's Magazine
, and was then reprinted in
The Critic
on 28 February 1891. It was later published under the title "Some Personal and Old-Age Jottings" in
Good-Bye My Fancy
(1891) and
Complete Prose Works
(1892).
