Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

Whitman Archive Title: To Rich Givers

Whitman Archive ID: uva.00212

Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts at the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

Folder: 50-51

Date: 1857-1859

Genre: poetry

Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten

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Content: "To Rich Givers—" was originally numbered 98. In 1860 it formed part of the "Messenger Leaves" cluster under the same title. After being ungrouped (1867) and transferred to the cluster "Songs of Parting" (1872 and 1876), it finally appeared, in 1881, in the cluster "By the Roadside." The deleted verses on the back of the leaf represent an earlier version of the manuscript poem "To the Future," never published by Whitman, and currently housed in the Huntington Library.