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An Integrated Finding Guide to Walt Whitman's Poetry Manuscripts

Original records created or revised by the Walt Whitman Archive and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. Encoded Archival Description completed through the assistance of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the University of Nebraska Research Council, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.

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Title: An Integrated Finding Guide to Walt Whitman's Poetry Manuscripts

Creator:  Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892

Repository:  The Walt Whitman Archive

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Abstract:

This integrated electronic guide was created by the Walt Whitman Archive through the work of the EAD Project Team at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The machine-readable finding aid, EAD encoding, and XSLT conflation were completed by Andrew Jewell, Mary Ellen Ducey, Brian Pytlik Zillig, and Brett Barney, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. Kenneth M. Price, co-editor of the Walt Whitman Archive, and Katherine L. Walter are primary investigators for a grant received from the Institute for Museum and Library Services, which provided major funding for the completion of this project. Additional funding was provided by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and the University of Nebraska Research Council. The Integrated Guide to Walt Whitman's Poetry Manuscripts is in prototype form, as significant work is still underway. There are many manuscripts for which no relationship to a published poem is known; work is being done to create uniform titles for these items, which are currently described in the individual repository finding aids. In addition, a few finding aids for large collections—those at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas and the New York Public Library—are still being revised and encoded.

Scope and Content : 

This Integrated Guide to Whitman's Poetry Manuscripts arranges by uniform title, and then by item title, all identified poetry manuscripts located in archival repositories throughout the United States and United Kingdom. Each item-level entry provides a title, date, and descriptive information, including physical characteristics when available. The large titles which are listed alphabetically are uniform titles based whenever possible on the final printing of Whitman's writings in Leaves of Grass (1891-92) or Complete Prose Works (1892). A uniform title may reference several distinct items that are associated with that title or work. Works that went through multiple revisions but did not appear in either one of these final collections of Whitman's poetry and prose use the final title as the uniform title. (That is, for example, a poem that appeared in the 1860, 1867, and 1872 editions of Leaves of Grass but then was dropped from future printings would take as its uniform title that given to it in the 1872 edition.) Access to an image of the original item, a transcription of the item, and a link to the repository finding aid are provided where available.

Biographical Information:

Subjects:  

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts

Poets, American--19th century

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After an Interval Title:  "After an Interval" Date: about 1876 Physical Description: 1 leaf Images: forthcoming Content:  Clipped proof sheet of "After an Interval," first published in 1876. No annotations on sheet. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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After certain disastrous campaigns Whitman Archive ID: pml.00006 Title:  After certain disastrous campaigns Date: about 1862 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  A poem unpublished in Whitman's lifetime, "After Certain Distastrous Campaigns" was published first in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (ed. Emory Holloway. Garden City, N.Y., Toronto: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1921). The manuscript shows that Whitman originally considered the title "Answer me, year of repulses," which is also the first line of the poem. Repository: The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

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After death Whitman Archive ID: uva.00133 Title:  After death Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 7 x 15 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Whitman apparently never used the recto lines, but the deleted lines on the verso bear a strong resemblance to the opening of his 1856 "Poem of The Sayers of The Words of The Earth," titled in successive editions "To the Sayers of Words" (1860 and 1867), "Carol of Words" (1871, 1876), and, finally (in the 1881 edition of Leaves), "A Song of the Rolling Earth." The undeleted ink line on the verso resembles a later draft of a line inscribed in Feinberg notebook #697 at the Library of Congress. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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After the Argument Whitman Archive ID: loc.00001 Title:  After the Argument Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 9.5 x 21.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of "After the Argument." The poem was published first in Lippincott's Magazine, March, 1891. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old Age Echoes" Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 68.5 x 16.5 cm Images: forthcoming Content:  Galley Proof of four poems under the general title "Old Age Echoes": "Sounds of the Winter," "The Unexpress'd," "Sail Out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!," and "After the Argument." This grouping was published in March, 1891 in Lippincott's Magazine. A note in Traubel's hand appears at the top of the page. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old Age Echoes" Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 25 x 16.75 cm Images: forthcoming Content:  Offprint from the March, 1891 issue of Lippincott's Magazine of four poems under the general title "Old Age Echoes": "Sounds of the Winter," "The Unexpress'd," "Sail Out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!," and "After the Argument." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old Age Echoes" Date: March, 1891 Content:  Copy of the March, 1891 issue of Lippincott's Magazine with four Whitman poems under the general title "Old Age Echoes": "Sounds of the Winter," "The Unexpress'd," "Sail Out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!," and "After the Argument." Also published in this issue are a full page portrait of Whitman, Whitman's "Some Personal and Old-Age Memoranda" (later published as "Some Personal and Old Age Jottings"), Traubel's "Walt Whitman: Poet and Philosopher and Man," and a review of Whitman's book, November Boughs. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old Age Echoes" Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28.5 x 16.5 cm, 6 x 14 cm attached, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Proof sheet of "Old Age Echoes" with many corrections written in ink, red ink, and pencil. "Old Age Echoes" is a general heading for four poems: "Sounds of the Winter," "The Unexpress'd," "Sail Out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!," and "After the Argument." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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After the Dazzle of Day Whitman Archive ID: loc.00002 Title:  After the Dazzle of Day Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 14 x 14.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This four-line verse was first published in the New York Herald, February 3, 1888. In the lower right-hand corner is the notation: "For Francis Howard Williams, May 1896, Traubel." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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After the Sea-Ship Title:  "After the Sea-Ship" Date: about 1874 Content:  Two clipped proof sheets of "After the Sea-Ship." No annotations on sheets. This poem was first published as "In the Wake Following" in 1874 and was also known as "Waves in the Vessel's Wake" in early drafts. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: uva.00064 Title:  Song of the Redwood Tree Date: about 1873 Physical Description: 20 leaves, 11 x 12.5 cm to 22.5 x 17.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  Content:  This manuscript contains a rough draft of the poem "Song of the Redwood-Tree" written, according to a note intialed by Whitman, during October and November 1873 prior to its first publication in the February 1874 issue of Harper's Magazine. In 1876 the poem was published in the group "Centennial Songs" and annexed to Two Rivulets. The poem appears ungrouped again in Leaves of Grass (1881). Several leaves contain deleted and undeleted titles or variant verse references to other published poems: "Eidólons", "Waves in the Vessel's Wake", "(a sonnet)" written "for Century Verses," which appears from a Library of Congress manuscript to have been a working title of the group that became "Centennial Verses" and "A California song". Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: mil.00001 Title:  Waves in the Vessel's wake Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Heavily revised draft of a poem that, after extensive further revision, was published first in the December 1874 issue of the New York Daily Graphic as "In the Wake Following." The poem first appeared under its final title, "After the Sea-Ship," in 1876, in the "Sea-Drift" group of Two Rivulets. Repository: Albert M. Bender Collection, Special Collections Department, F. W. Olin Library, Mills College

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After the Supper and Talk Whitman Archive ID: loc.00004 Title:  After the Supper and Talk Date: 1887 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28 x 25.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Signed draft of the poem, which was first published in 1887. On the verso is a proof sheet from "After All, Not to Create Only" with one correction. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "After the Supper and Talk" Date: about 1887 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12 x 15 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  A proof of "After the Supper and Talk," with corrections (all punctuation) in ink and two words written in purple pencil: "30 Copies." This poem was published first in 1887. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: uva.00082 Title:  After the Supper and Talk Date: about 1885 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 25 x 20 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of "After the Supper and Talk". This poem was rejected by Harper's in 1885 but published in Lippincott's Magazine in November 1887, after which it eventually became the final poem in the "First Annex" titled "Sands at Seventy." To the verso are pasted sections 16 and 18-19 of "Poem of Joys" (final title: "A Song of Joys") clipped either from the independent book Passage to India (1871) or from the "Passage to India" supplement to Leaves of Grass. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Title:  "November Boughs" Date: 1887 Physical Description: handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Clipping from a newspaper of four Whitman poems: "You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me," "'Going Somewhere,'" "After the Supper and Talk," and "Not Meagre Latent Boughs Alone." At the top is the title "November Boughs." At the bottom of the clipping is written, in Whitman's hand, "1887." The poems were published first in Lippincott's Magazine, November, 1887. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "November Boughs" Date: about 1887 Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Three proofs of a collection of four poems ("You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me," "'Going Somewhere,'" "After the Supper and Talk," and "Not Meagre Latent Boughs Alone") under the general title "November Boughs." The first is made by pasting together proofs of each poem in the order desired; the other two have all four poems printed on one sheet. Two of the proofs have corrections and notations in Whitman's hand. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00003 Title:  So Loth to Depart! Date: about 1887 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 26 x 20 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Draft of poem later revised and published as "After the Supper and Talk" in 1887. On verso detached from Leaves of Grass, part of "Poem of Joys," first published in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, and later published as "A Song of Joys." The title "Poem of Joys" is in Whitman's hand. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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All is Truth Whitman Archive ID: uva.00206 Title:  As of the The Truth Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 4 leaves, leaf 2 19.5 x 13 cm, all other leaves 21.5 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  Content:  This poem became section 18 of the cluster "Leaves of Grass" in the 1860 edition. In 1872 the poem received the title "All is Truth," and in 1881, after various repositionings, it was finally transferred to the cluster "From Noon to Starry Night". The second leaf is a composite formed when Whitman deleted and cut away the original first two verses on the leaf, flipped the new small section over and upside-down, pasted it to the foot of the remaining original verses, and inscribed a verse in light ink on the newly created blank space. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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America (unpublished poem) Whitman Archive ID: loc.00006 Title:  America Date: undated Physical Description: 1 leaf, 18.5 x 21.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Despite the title, this manuscript does not appear to be a draft of the poem, "America," published in 1888, but it has been published separately and posthumously as "[America]" and begins "No Homer, Shakspere, Voltaire." This manuscript was likely composed in the last two decades of Whitman's career (roughly 1870-1892) when he was more apt to mention other writers explicitly in his poetry. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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America Whitman Archive ID: pri.00002 Title:  America Date: ca. 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Six lines of "America," which was published first in 1888. Repository: Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library

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Among the Multitude Whitman Archive ID: uva.00336 Title:  To One Who Will Understand Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21.5 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one leaf of pink paper (21.5 x 13 cm), in black ink, with revisions in the same ink, in pencil, and in fine ink (in that order). Pinholes mostly in center. Originally titled "To Those Who Will Understand" and numbered 100 (then 101, then the current ?100 in the fine pen). This was revised to form section 41 of "Calamus" in 1860 and was permanently retitled "Among the Multitude" in the 1867 Leaves. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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And Yet Not You Alone Whitman Archive ID: yal.00049 Title:  [Nor you alone] Date: about 1885 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  This is a draft of the poem, "And Yet Not You Alone," published as part of "Fancies at Navesink" in the magazine, Nineteenth Century, in August 1885. The draft also has, in the bottom margin, the title of the poem which follows it in "Fancies at Navesink," "Proudly the Flood Comes In." This manuscript is bound with others under the title, "Fancies at Navesink." Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Whitman Archive ID: yal.00050 Title:  [your needed blending] Date: about 1885 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  This is a draft of the poem, "And Yet Not You Alone," published as part of "Fancies at Navesink" in the magazine, Nineteenth Century, in August 1885. This manuscript is bound with others under the title, "Fancies at Navesink." Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Are You the New Person Drawn toward Me? Whitman Archive ID: uva.00332 Title:  To a new personal admirer Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, leaf 1 13 x 11.5 cm; leaf 2 20 x 16 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  On two pieces of white wove paper, 13 x 11.5 and 20 x 16 cm, in brown-black ink, with substantial revisions in the same ink. Pinholes mostly at center and in left margins of both pages. This poem, featuring a new first line, became section 12 of "Calamus" in 1860; in 1867 Whitman dropped the last 2 1/2 lines and permanently retitled it "Are you the New Person Drawn Toward Me?" The first page contains verses corresponding to lines 2-3 of the 1860 version, and the lines on the second page ("Do you suppose you can easily/ be my lover,...") became verses 4-11. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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armies & navies pass on the surface Whitman Archive ID: tex.00005 Title:  [Armies & navies pass on the surface] | [Locust whirring they come in July] Date: probably 1850-1870 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript was probably composed in the 1850s or 1860s. On one side of the leaf are approximately five lines toward a poem about the effects of war that was never published in Whitman's lifetime. On the other side are two sentences or lines, one headed "Locust," and the other headed "Sunflower." The relationship of these notes to Whitman's published work is unknown. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin

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As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free. And Other Poems Whitman Archive ID: tex.00003 Title:  [Americans are charged with disproportionate brag and] Date: 1819-1872 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  A paragraph, heavily revised, expressing the opinion that the United States is the culmination of human development. A note at the bottom of the sheet refers to "As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free," a poem first published in the New York Herald on 26 June 1872. This poem was later published with seven other poems in a pamphlet, As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free (1872). Subsequently it was included as a supplement bound with Two Rivulets (1876). Later still Whitman changed the title to "Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood," added a new opening stanza, and additional revisions, and incorporated the poem into Leaves of Grass (1881-82). Extracts from this poem also appeared in the Washington Evening Star on the same date, within a larger article on the commencement exercises at Dartmouth College. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Whitman Archive ID: unc.00001 Title:  [Land of the potent-large!] Date: undated Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  This manuscript includes a fragment of a poem, approximately seven lines, that is possibly from an early draft of "As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free," a poem Whitman originally wrote for the June 1872 Dartmouth College commencement exercises. This poem was later revised and published as "Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood." Repository: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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As at Thy Portals Also Death Whitman Archive ID: tex.00048 Title:  [To her, the ideal woman] Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Draft, with revisions, of the final three lines of "As at Thy Portals Also Death," which was first published in the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Whitman Archive ID: tex.00006 Title:  As at thy Portals also Death Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Draft, with revisions, of "As at Thy Portals Also Death," which was first published in the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. A second, smaller leaf, was at some point pasted over the lines at the bottom of the first leaf, but the two have become separated and are at present stored separately as "[To her, the ideal woman]" . Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin

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As Consequent, Etc. Whitman Archive ID: loc.00082 Title:  [some threading Ohio's] Date: 1881 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 13 x 14.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of lines of "As Consequent, Etc.," first published in the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. On the verso in a letter from the Camden and Atlantic Railroad dated January 25, 1881. Repository: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress, 1842-1937

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Ashes of Soldiers (Poem) Whitman Archive ID: loc.00054 Title:  [Ashes of ?soldiers heroes] Date: about 1871 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Draft of lines which bear a relationship to "Ashes of Soldiers," first published in 1865. On the second leaf is a one line reading "The Soul of their Ashes risen." This manuscript was likely composed around 1870-1871, when Whitman was revising and expanding the poem for republication. This manuscript appears to be a draft of the first two linegroups of "Ashes of Soldiers." These linegroups were added in 1871 to a poem first published as "Hymn of Dead Soldiers" in Drum-Taps (1865). It was only in 1871 that he added the imagery of ashes to this poem. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00050 Title:  Ashes of Roses Date: about 1870 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 23.5 x 13.5 and 10 x 13.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  Poem draft, parts of which have been printed as "? Ashes of Roses." The manuscript may bear a relationship to "Ashes of Soldiers," a poem published first in 1865 as "Hymn of Dead Soldiers" in Drum-Taps. It was only in 1871 that Whitman added the imagery of ashes to this poem. The manuscript was likely composed around 1870-1871, when Whitman was revising and expanding the poem for republication. Alternatively, the manuscript may be a draft of a unique poetic work unpublished in Whitman's lifetime. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00298 Title:  Songs of Parting Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 18 leaves with handwritten annotations, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  Content:  Bound proofs of Whitman's cluster "Songs of Parting," containing 17 poems. Opposite a portrait of Whitman, the title page reads, "Songs of Parting, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof." These corrections were probably for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. The 17 poems included are: "As the Time Draws Nigh," "Ashes of Soldiers," "Years of the Modern," "Thoughts," "Song at Sunset," "My Legacy," "Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All," "Camps of Green," "Bathed in War's Perfume," "Now Finalé to the Shore," "As they Draw to a Close," "The Untold Want," "Portals," "These Carols," "To the Reader at Parting," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," and "So Long." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life Whitman Archive ID: har.00003 Title:  Bardic Symbols Date: about 1860 Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  Content:  This is a partial, late draft, with minor revisions, of "Bardic Symbols," first published in the April 1860 issue of the Atlantic Monthly. The poem was later revised and published under the title "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life." Two of the manuscript leaves are stored with a letter to the editor, James Russell Lowell, dated October 2, 1861; the other leaf is stored separately. Repository: Manuscripts Department, Houghton Library, Harvard University Title:  "Bardic Symbols" Date: April, 1860 Content:  Portions of two copies of The Atlantic Monthly containing Whitman's poem "Bardic Symbols." The poem appeared in revised forms and with different titles throughout Whitman's career. In the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, it was known as "Leaves of Grass, Number 1"; in the 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass it was titled "Elemental Drifts"; and, in the 1881-1882 edition, the title was again changed to "As I Ebb'd With the Ocean of Life." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00033 Title:  Sea Winrows Date: 1860-1881 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  A list of words probably related to the poem "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life," originally published as "Bardic Symbols" in the Atlantic Monthly 5 (April 1860). The final version of the poem was published in Leaves of Grass (1881-82). The verso features the words "Sands and Drifts." Repository: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library

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As If a Phantom Caress'd Me Whitman Archive ID: loc.00323 Title:  Whispers of Heavenly Death Date: about 1870 Physical Description: 15 leaves, 20 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  Content:  Mostly mounted clippings of poems taken from Leaves of Grass, stitched and tied with ribbon by Walt Whitman. An autograph title page is followed by pages numbered in red pencil 469-484. One poem, "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," on p. 481 is written entirely in Walt Whitman's hand, and other corrections and additions are in Whitman's hand throughout. The poems included are: "Whispers of Heavenly Death," "Yet, Yet Ye Downcast Hours," "As Nearing Departure" (later published, in a different form, as "As the Time Draws Nigh"), "Darest Thou Now O Soul," "Of Him I Love Day and Night," "Quicksand Years That Whirl Me I Know Not Whither" (later published as "Quicksand Years"), "That Music Always Round Me," "As If a Phantom Caress'd Me," "O Living Always, Always Dying," "Here, Sailor!" (later published as "What Ship Puzzled at Sea"), "A Noiseless Patient Spider," "To One Shortly to Die," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," "This Day, O Soul," "What Place is Besieged?," "The Last Invocation," and "Pensive and Faltering." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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As in a Swoon Title:  "As in a Swoon" Date: about 1876 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 6.5 x 12.5 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  A proof pasted on another sheet of paper, with seven words in Whitman's hand: "Walt Whitman, (discarded from last booklet.)" "As in a Swoon" was published first in 1876. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: yal.00004 Title:  As in a Swoon Date: about 1876 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a manuscript of the poem, "As in a Swoon," first published in the 1876 printing of Leaves of Grass. Although this poem was not included in any subsequent editions of Leaves of Grass, Whitman did include it in the 1891 volume, Good-Bye My Fancy, and as one of the few poems in the 1892 volume, Complete Prose Works. Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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As I Sit Writing Here Whitman Archive ID: pri.00001 Title:  As I Sit Writing Here Date: ca. 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Four lines of "As I Sit Writing Here," which was published first in 1888. Repository: Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library

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As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days Whitman Archive ID: duk.00287 Title:  [Poem, as in a rapt and] Date: before 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  A manuscript proposing ideas for a poem in the form of a prophetic vision about the future of America. Possibly related to "As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days," which was first published as "Chants Democratic 21" in 1860. This scrap has been attached by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with "An After Thought or Two," and "[Poem ante-dating]." Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library

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As of Forms Whitman Archive ID: uva.00124 Title:  As of Forms Date: around 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21.5 cm x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Manuscript draft of the unpublished poem "As of Forms" which is possibly one of a group of poems Whitman composed prior to the third edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Assurances Title:  "[the scope of government]" Date: between 1855-1856 Physical Description: handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  A notebook Whitman used for various purposes in the mid-1850s. Edward F. Grier, in his edition of Whitman's Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984. 6 vols.), noted that the notebook contains lines and phrases that relate to several poems: "Assurances," "This Compost," and an unfinished poem entitled "The Insects." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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As the Greek's Signal Flame Whitman Archive ID: hav.00001 Title:  As the Greek's Signal Flame Date: 1887 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  A broadside of Whitman's poem "As the Greek's Signal Flame," which is subtitled "For Whittier's 80th birthday, December 17, 1887." The poem was published first in 1887. Repository: Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections Title:  "As the Greek's Signal Flame" Date: about 1887 Physical Description: 2 p., 12 x 15.25 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Written in ink at the top of a proof of "As the Greek's Signal Flame"(subheaded "For Whittier's 80th birth-day, December 17th, 1887"), a seven-line poem, with a printed signature, nine words: "If convenient put in paper of Saturday Dec. 17." Another copy of the same proof, with no annotations. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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As the Time Draws Nigh Whitman Archive ID: uva.00231 Title:  Nearing Departure Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 16 x 20 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Whitman retitled the poem "To My Soul" in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. In 1867 Whitman cut eight lines and revised others, retitling the poem "As Nearing Departure" and moving it to an untitled group of poems in the supplement "Songs Before Parting." In 1872 it was finally retitled "As the Time Draws Nigh" and transferred to the cluster "Songs of Parting" within the main body of Leaves of Grass. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: loc.00298 Title:  Songs of Parting Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 18 leaves with handwritten annotations, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  Content:  Bound proofs of Whitman's cluster "Songs of Parting," containing 17 poems. Opposite a portrait of Whitman, the title page reads, "Songs of Parting, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof." These corrections were probably for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. The 17 poems included are: "As the Time Draws Nigh," "Ashes of Soldiers," "Years of the Modern," "Thoughts," "Song at Sunset," "My Legacy," "Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All," "Camps of Green," "Bathed in War's Perfume," "Now Finalé to the Shore," "As they Draw to a Close," "The Untold Want," "Portals," "These Carols," "To the Reader at Parting," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," and "So Long." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00323 Title:  Whispers of Heavenly Death Date: about 1870 Physical Description: 15 leaves, 20 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  Content:  Mostly mounted clippings of poems taken from Leaves of Grass, stitched and tied with ribbon by Walt Whitman. An autograph title page is followed by pages numbered in red pencil 469-484. One poem, "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," on p. 481 is written entirely in Walt Whitman's hand, and other corrections and additions are in Whitman's hand throughout. The poems included are: "Whispers of Heavenly Death," "Yet, Yet Ye Downcast Hours," "As Nearing Departure" (later published, in a different form, as "As the Time Draws Nigh"), "Darest Thou Now O Soul," "Of Him I Love Day and Night," "Quicksand Years That Whirl Me I Know Not Whither" (later published as "Quicksand Years"), "That Music Always Round Me," "As If a Phantom Caress'd Me," "O Living Always, Always Dying," "Here, Sailor!" (later published as "What Ship Puzzled at Sea"), "A Noiseless Patient Spider," "To One Shortly to Die," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," "This Day, O Soul," "What Place is Besieged?," "The Last Invocation," and "Pensive and Faltering." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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As They Draw to a Close Whitman Archive ID: loc.00298 Title:  Songs of Parting Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 18 leaves with handwritten annotations, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  Content:  Bound proofs of Whitman's cluster "Songs of Parting," containing 17 poems. Opposite a portrait of Whitman, the title page reads, "Songs of Parting, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof." These corrections were probably for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. The 17 poems included are: "As the Time Draws Nigh," "Ashes of Soldiers," "Years of the Modern," "Thoughts," "Song at Sunset," "My Legacy," "Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All," "Camps of Green," "Bathed in War's Perfume," "Now Finalé to the Shore," "As they Draw to a Close," "The Untold Want," "Portals," "These Carols," "To the Reader at Parting," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," and "So Long." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Autumn Rivulets Title:  "Autumn Rivulets" Date: about 1881 Physical Description: handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Written in ink at the bottom of a proof of "Old War-Dreams," four words: "Walt Whitman's New Book." Accompanying is a collection of proofs of "Autumn Rivulets," with cancelled title "As Consequent, Etc." without any other markings or annotations. The poems included are: "From Far Dakota's Canons," "A Farm Picture," "What Best I See on Thee" (U.S. Grant), "The Sobbing of the Bells," "Italian Music in Dakota," "By Broad Potomac's Shore," "Excelsior," "With All thy Gifts," "To Rich Givers" "The Dalliance of the Eagles," "Tears," "After the Sea-Ship," "Aboard at a Ship's Helm," and "Thick-Sprinkled Bunting." "Autumn Rivulets" was published first in 1881. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads, A Whitman Archive ID: bpl.00005 Title:  Corrections in Plates Date: ca. 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This list of corrections in Whitman's hand, including page numbers and notes, possibly corresponding to a proof of the 1891-1892 edition of Leaves of Grass and related to "[p 287]" above. The bottom of the page has Whitman's corrections to "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads" (first published in 1888). Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Boston Public Library

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Base of All Metaphysics, The Whitman Archive ID: bpl.00023 Title:  The Professor's Answer. Date: ca. 1870 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  This early draft of a poem Whitman titled "The Professor's Answer" was tipped into a copy of John Burroughs's Notes on Walt Whitman, as Poet and Person between pages 16 and 17. This poem, ultimately titled "The Base of All Metaphysics," first appeared in print as an addition to the "Calamus" group in Leaves of Grass (1871). Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Boston Public Library

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Bathed in War's Perfume (Poem) Whitman Archive ID: loc.00298 Title:  Songs of Parting Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 18 leaves with handwritten annotations, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  Content:  Bound proofs of Whitman's cluster "Songs of Parting," containing 17 poems. Opposite a portrait of Whitman, the title page reads, "Songs of Parting, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof." These corrections were probably for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. The 17 poems included are: "As the Time Draws Nigh," "Ashes of Soldiers," "Years of the Modern," "Thoughts," "Song at Sunset," "My Legacy," "Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All," "Camps of Green," "Bathed in War's Perfume," "Now Finalé to the Shore," "As they Draw to a Close," "The Untold Want," "Portals," "These Carols," "To the Reader at Parting," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," and "So Long." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Beat! Beat! Drums! Whitman Archive ID: loc.00051 Title:  [Beat! Beat! Drums!] Date: 1860-1865 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  One leaf with a draft of the first stanza of "Beat! Beat! Drums!", first published simultaneously in Harper's Weekly and in the New York Leader on September 28, 1861. On the verso are lines on the death of President Lincoln, known as "[Thou West that gave'st him to us]" and first published in a Facsimile Edition of Drum-Taps in 1959. (Note: Early cataloguers incorrectly identified this fragment as part of "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.") Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Beauty of the Ship, The Whitman Archive ID: loc.00499 Title:  The Beauty of the Ship Date: 1876 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A cancelled, early draft of "The Beauty of the Ship"written on the verso of an 1876 letter from Whitman to Robert Buchanan. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Beginners Whitman Archive ID: hun.00006 Title:  Beginners Date: ca. 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a handwritten draft of "Beginners," a poem first published in 1860. The title "Thought," near the top of the page is crossed out. Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

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Bravo, Paris Exposition! Whitman Archive ID: loc.00056 Title:  Bravo, Paris Exhibition! Date: about 1889 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 27.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of the poem published as "Bravo, Paris Exposition!" in 1889, with a diagonal line striking through the entire page. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00057 Title:  Bravo, Paris Exhibition! Date: about 1889 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 27.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Signed draft of a poem with a variation in line 1 from the printed version. On the verso, written in pencil: "Can you use this? Put it under the "Personal" head like you did a year ago? "The price is $10, which please send me by mail here." In ink is the start of another sentence: "If you don't want it." The poem was published under the title "Bravo, Paris Exposition!" in 1889. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00058 Title:  Bravo, Paris Exposition! Date: about 1889 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 11.5 x 15 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A proof sheet of "Bravo, Paris Exposition!" with corrections in Whitman's hand. "Bravo, Paris Exposition!" was published in 1889. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00059 Title:  Bravo, Paris Exposition! Date: about 1889 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 11.5 x 15 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A proof sheet of "Bravo, Paris Exposition!" with corrections in Whitman's hand. "Bravo, Paris Exposition!" was published in 1889. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00060 Title:  Bravo, Paris Exposition! Date: about 1889 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 11.5 x 15 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A proof sheet of "Bravo, Paris Exposition!" with corrections in Whitman's hand. At the top is a note reading "See notes, Oct 31, '89." "Bravo, Paris Exposition!" was published in 1889. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00061 Title:  Bravo, Paris Exposition! Date: about 1889 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A proof sheet of "Bravo, Paris Exposition!" with corrections in Whitman's hand. At the top is a note in Traubel's hand: "Rec'd from W.W. Sept 30, '89". "Bravo, Paris Exposition!" was published in 1889. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: tex.00082 Title:  Bravo, Paris Exposition! Date: undated Physical Description: 1 leaf, proof with handwritten corrections View Images:  1  Content:  "Bravo, Paris Exposition!" was published in Harper's Weekly 33, 28 September 1889. It was reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) and in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892). According to a letter from Whitman to R. M. Bucke, this poem was also reprinted in the French paper "Le Temps." Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin

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Broadway Pageant, A Whitman Archive ID: uva.00277 Title:  [You are English] Date: 1856-1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 10 x 15 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Whitman's use of the word "Libertad" and his way of handling the theme of immigration suggest that this might be part of an early draft of the poem eventually known as "A Broadway Pageant," first published in the June 27, 1860 issue of the New York Times as "The Errand-Bearers." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Broadway Whitman Archive ID: uva.00156 Title:  Broadway Date: 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 22.5 cm x 20 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript contains a draft version of the poem "Broadway". A note appearing at the top of the page states "Sent Herald March 3—sent again April 9 '88" indicating that this manuscript was likely composed and/or edited around the time of its first publication in the New York Herald, April 10, 1888. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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By Blue Ontario's Shore Whitman Archive ID: upa.00001 Title:  [after all] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript is written on a green sheet used for the endpapers of the first edition of the 1855 Leaves of Grass, an edition that begins with a ten-page statement in prose, originally untitled and later known generally as the 1855 Preface. This manuscript seems to represent an early attempt by Whitman to recast the 1855 prose Preface into poetry; indeed, the first numbered poem in the cluster of poems titled, "Chants Democratic and Native American," which appeared in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass is thought to be a recasting of the 1855 prose Preface not unlike the poem, "By Blue Ontario's Shore," which also was an adaptation of the prose Preface that later appeared in the 1856 Leaves of Grass. Whitman Archive ID: duk.00030 Title:  [a nation announcing itself] Date: about 1856 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A manuscript draft of the opening passage of "Poem of Many in One" (1856). The final title of the poem, "By Blue Ontario's Shore," first appeared in the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. On the verso is both prose and verse beginning "Asia" that appears to be a draft of "Salut Au Monde!," a poem first published as "Poem of Salutation" in the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: upa.00005 Title:  [are you and me] [Sanity and ensemble characterise the great master] Date: about 1856 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one side of the leaf are about twenty lines related to the 1855 Preface to Leaves of Grass and to the poem first published as "Chants Democratic 1" in 1860. The lines were probably written as Whitman was mining the preface for material to be used in the poem, which was eventually titled "By Blue Ontario's Shore." On the reverse are fourteen lines, also clearly related to the 1855 Preface but only indirectly, if at all, to "Chants Democratic 1." Title:  "[George Walker]" Date: between 1855-1856 Physical Description: handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  A notebook Whitman used for various purposes in the mid-1850s. Edward F. Grier, in his edition of Whitman's Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984. 6 vols), noted that the notebook contains lines and phrases that relate to several poems: "Song of the Broad-Axe," "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Starting from Paumanok," "A Song for Occupations," "By Blue Ontario's Shore," "Salut au Monde!," "To One Shortly to Die," and "A Woman Waits for Me." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: uva.00284 Title:  [Have I] Date: about 1856 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 9 x 18 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The words "Have I" at the beginning are inscribed on a small scrap of the same paper, which Whitman pasted over some deleted words in the upper right corner that cannot be discerned through the paper. Inscribed and extensively revised in pencil, these verses were part of a larger set of lines before Whitman cut away the rest. Although the page number and many words on the left side of the proof have been cut away, the remaining words identify it as being from the "Poem of Many in One (1856)," which eventually became "By Blue Ontario's Shore." These unused but also undeleted lines may have been intended for that poem or a number of other poems in Leaves of Grass. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Title:  "[med Cophósis]" Date: between 1850-1856 Physical Description: handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  A notebook kept by Whitman in the early to mid-1850s. William White, in his edition of Whitman's Daybooks and Notebooks (New York: New York University Press, 1978. 3 vols.), noted a relationship between this notebook and the poems "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?," "By Blue Ontario's Shore," "Song of the Answerer," and "There Was a Child Went Forth." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: duk.00166 Title:  [Produce great persons and the producers] Date: 1856 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  Manuscript and clipping. On one side of the manuscript leaf are several prose notes, including two versions of a paragraph that was later revised to become a line in "Poem of Many In One," published in 1856 and eventually titled "By Blue Ontario's Shore." The phrase "savage and luxuriant," which appears toward the bottom of this side, was used in Whitman's open letter to Emerson, published in an appendix to the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass. On the other side of the leaf is a partial draft of "Poem of The Singers, and of the Words of Poems," also first published in 1856. In the final edition of Leaves of Grass this and another poem, which had been included in every edition since 1855, were combined to form "Song of the Answerer." Whitman pasted two newspaper clippings on the manuscript, one on each side. One of these, which had covered Whitman's paragraphs but has since been detached, is included in the file. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00304 Title:  Europe Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 16 x 14 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The recto notes represent an early stage of lines partially incorporated in "Poem of Salutation," the new third poem in the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass, which was permanently retitled "Salut au Monde!" in the 1860 edition. If the note or title "Europe" suggests that Whitman might have first intended to divide his salutations into discrete sections based on the different continents, this is a plan he did not follow in the published version(s). The more polished (but deleted) lines on the verso represent a recasting in poetic form of several lines from the 1855 Preface. These were further revised for the 1856 "Poem of Many in One," after which the first verse drafted on this page (cut off here, and beginning "over the Texan, Mexican, Florid[ian,]/ Cuban seas...") was dropped. The two verses below this, however, were preserved relatively unchanged through the poem's many transformations until the text was essentially fixed under the title "By Blue Ontario's Shore" in 1881. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00060 Title:  Inscription Date: between 1855 and 1867 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 19.5 x 12.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript entitled "Inscription" appears to be a revision of other "Inscriptions" Whitman gathered in a notebook, along with prose drafts for a never-finished introduction to Leaves of Grass, and attached to his copy of the 1855 paper-bound edition. (The entire collection of draft "inscription" and introductory material is currently housed at the New York Public Library.) In the 1867 Leaves of Grass Whitman culled material from this poem and the other "Inscription" poems to create an italicized "Inscription" that he placed before "Starting from Paumanok" at the beginning of the book; in that edition he also transferred part of verse 2 to "As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shore" (later the line was dropped and the title was revised to "By Blue Ontario's Shore"). From 1872 onward, this poem, revised and retitled "One's-Self I Sing," was printed as the first of several poems in the "Inscriptions" cluster that opened the book. In the 1888 November Boughs, however, Whitman reprinted the 1867 version as "Small the Theme of my Chant." Note: This manuscript draft may have been written before the Civil War, since it does not include the 1867 line "My Days I sing, and the Lands—with interstice I knew / of hapless War." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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By Broad Potomac's Shore Whitman Archive ID: loc.00619 Title:  [for 'Again old heart so gay'] Date: 1872 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  Two pages of notes for a piece entitled "Again old heart so gay" about "the idea of constantly recurring Birth and Death." This manuscript is probably related to "By Broad Potomac's Shore," first published in 1872. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "By Broad Potomac's Shore" Date: about 1872 Physical Description: 1 leaf Images: forthcoming Content:  Proof of "By Broad Potomac's Shore," first published in 1872, with no annotations on sheet. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Calamus Whitman Archive ID: uva.00306 Title:  [A leaf for hand-in-hand] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 14.5 x 9 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one leaf of white wove paper (14.5 x 9 cm), in black ink, with revisions in pencil. Pinholes in center and at top. A blue-pencil number 3 appears in the upper right corner over an erased 9. With substantial additions and revisions this evolved into section 37 of "Calamus" in 1860; after further revision it became "A Leaf for Hand in Hand" in 1867. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00312 Title:  [Earth] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 14.5 x 9.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one leaf of white wove paper (14.5 x 9.5 cm), in brown-black ink, with revisions in lighter ink (including the deletion, undone in 1860, of the phrase "My likeness!" after "Earth!"). Pinholes mostly at top and in center. Whitman penciled in the number 15 in the lower-left corner. Originally poem XI in the sequence "Live Oak, with Moss" (with the Roman numeral ornamentally drawn), this was revised to become section 36 of "Calamus" in 1860. In 1867 Whitman retitled the poem "Earth! My Likeness!" Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00267 Title:  [Full of wickedness] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 15.5 x 8 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The verses on the recto, while not published word-for-word until 1897, seem to represent an early draft of the poem first published as number 13 of the cluster "Leaves of Grass" in the 1860 Leaves of Grass, and eventually titled "You Felons on Trial in Courts." Whitman's careful script and verse forms here also resemble the methods of inscription used for the "Live Oak, with Moss" poems dated to the post-1856, pre-1860 period. The undeleted notes on the back are titled "Poems". A cartoon hand in the left margin points to the phrase "religious emotions." Whitman's use of the title "Calamus Leaves" dates these notes to the same pre-1860 period as the deleted verses on the recto, since "Calamus-Leaves" was what he renamed the cluster "Live Oak, with Moss" before settling on "Calamus" for the 1860 edition. A section of the notes below the rest (beginning "spirituality—the unknown,...") is inscribed in verse form. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00313 Title:  [Here the frailest leaves of me] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 15 x 9.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one leaf of white wove paper (15 x 9.5 cm), in medium-brown ink, with one revision in the same ink. Pinholes mostly at top and in center. The two sets of verses are divided by a short horizontal line. In 1860 the first set, with the addition of a new first line ("Here my last words, and the most baffling,") became section 44 of "Calamus"; the poem was permanently retitled "Here the Frailest Leaves of Me", and the new first line dropped, in 1867. The second set was revised to form section 38 of "Calamus" in 1860; in 1867 it was further revised and retitled "Fast Anchor'd, Eternal, O Love." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00314 Title:  [Hours continuing long] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, leaf 1 9.5 x 9 cm; leaf 2 14.5 x 9 cm pasted to 5 x 9.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  On two pieces of white wove paper, the first cut down to 9.5 x 9 cm and the second comprising two sections (14.5 x 9 and 5 x 9.5 cm) joined by means of a strip of pink paper. In brown-black ink, with revisions in the same ink and in pencil. Pinholes mostly at top and in center of leaves. Whitman penciled in the numbers 11 and 12 (apparently over other numbers) in the lower-left corner of each page; his partly erased pencil note "(finished in/ the other city)" appears on the first page. The ornamental number "VIII" replaces a deleted ornamental "IX" on the first page, and the top of another "IX" appears at the foot of the second page, beneath a wavy line indicating the end of the poem. Whitman removed the lower section of page 2 from the top of current leaf 1:3:33 ("I dreamed in a dream of a/ city..."). This poem, the eighth in the sequence "Live Oak, with Moss," became section 9 of "Calamus" in 1860. This was its only appearance in Leaves. The first page contains what would become verses 1-3 in 1860, and the second ("Hours discouraged, distracted,") contains lines 4-12. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00315 Title:  [I dreamed in a dream of a] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 9.5 x 9 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one leaf of white wove paper cut down to 9.5 x 9 cm, in brown-black ink, with revisions in pencil. Pinholes at top and in center. Whitman numbered the leaf 13, in pencil, in the lower-left corner. The excised top portion of the leaf became the bottom section of page 2 of 1:3:11, the poem (eighth in the sequence "Live Oak, with Moss") beginning "Hours continuing long, sore/ and heavy-hearted..." In 1860 this poem was substantially revised to form section 34 of "Calamus"; in 1867 it was retitled "I Dreamed in a Dream." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00316 Title:  [I saw in Louisiana a] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 15 x 9.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On two leaves of white wove paper, both 15 x 9.5 cm, in black ink, with extensive revisions in the same ink, in light brown ink, and in pencil. Pinholes mostly at top and in center of both pages. Whitman numbered the pages 2 and 3 in pencil. This was originally the second section of the sequence "Live Oak, with Moss" (one of the deleted lines reads "I write/ these pieces, and name/ them after it [the Louisiana live-oak];"), with ornamental Roman numeral. It became section 20 of "Calamus" in 1860; the lines on the first manuscript page correspond to verses 1-7, and those on the second ("It is not needed to remind/ me...") to verses 8-13. The poem was retitled "I saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing" in 1867. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00321 Title:  [Long I thought that knowledge] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 3 leaves, leaves 1 and 2 15 x 9.5 cm; leaf 3 6.5 x 9.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  Content:  On three pieces of white wove paper (the first two 15 x 9.5 cm, the third 6.5 x 9.5 cm), in black ink, with revisions in the same ink and in pencil. Whitman also penciled in the numbers 7, 8, and 8 1/2 in the lower-left corner of each page. Pinholes at the head and in the center of each page. This was the fifth poem of the original sequence "Live Oak, with Moss"; the poem number is inscribed ornamentally, as with the Roman numerals Whitman used for other "Live Oak" poems, and a wavy line appears after the last verse. The lines on the first leaf became verses 1-5 of section 8 of "Calamus" in 1860; the second leaf's lines ("Take notice, you Kanuck woods") became verses 6-10; and the lines on the half-page ("I am indifferent to my own/ songs—") became verses 11-12. There were no further appearances of this poem during the poet's lifetime, Whitman having canceled it in his "Blue Book Copy" of the 1860 Leaves. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00324 Title:  [O you whom I often and silently come where you are] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 14.5 x 9 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one leaf of white wove paper (14.5 x 9 cm), in brown-black ink, with revisions in the same ink. Pinholes mostly at the top, with a few lower down. The tenth section of the original sequence "Live Oak, with Moss" (with ornamental Roman numeral), this was reformatted and renumbered but otherwise left unrevised as section 43 of "Calamus" in 1860. In 1867 Whitman permanently retitled it "O You Whom I Often and Silently Come." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00328 Title:  [Sometimes] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 15 x 9.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one leaf of white wove paper (15 x 9.5 cm), in light brown ink, with one revision in the same ink. Pinholes at top and in center. A blue pencil mark, possibly the number 4, has been inscribed in the upper right corner. Bowers notes that the page bears the imprint of a papermaker's lozenge die, perhaps that of Platner and Smith of Lee, Massachusetts. This poem became section 39 of "Calamus" in 1860; in 1867 Whitman replaced the third line with a new one and permanently retitled the poem "Sometimes with One I Love." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00329 Title:  [That shadow] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 17 x 9.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  One one leaf of lined light blue wove paper (17 x 9.5 cm), in pencil, with one pencil revision. Only two sets of pinholes, both in center. This was revised to become section 40 of "Calamus" in 1860; in 1867 it was retitled "That Shadow, My Likeness." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00330 Title:  [These I, singing in spring] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 4 leaves, 20 x 16 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  Content:  These leaves comprise four sections of a poem inscribed on the first and third sides of two folded half-sheets (20 x 16 cm) of the same white wove paper used for 1:3:1 and 1:3:2, in the same light brown ink and, like them, with only minor revisions. The pages were folded and pinned together to form a small pamphlet. Pinholes mostly at center-top and in what was the left margin of the pamphlet. The lines on page 1 became verses 1-8 of section 4 of "Calamus." in 1860; page 2 ("Solitary, smelling the earthy/ smell,...") became verses 9-14; page 3 ("Here lilac with a branch of/ pine,") became verses 15-22; and page 4 ("And stems of currants, and/ plum-blows,") became verses 23-28. From 1867 on the poem was titled "These I, Singing in Spring." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00331 Title:  [This moment as I sit alone] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one leaf of white wove paper, in dark brown ink, with revisions in pencil. Pinholes in center and at top. Whitman penciled in the number 6 in the lower-left corner. The fourth poem in the original sequence "Live Oak, with Moss" (with ornamental Roman numeral), it became section 23 of "Calamus" in 1860 and was permanently retitled "This Moment, Yearning and Thoughtful" in 1867. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00337 Title:  [To the young man] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 15 x 9 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one leaf of white wove paper (15 x 9 cm), in black ink, with revisions in the same ink and in pencil. Whitman also penciled in the page number 16 in the lower-left corner. Pinholes in center and at top. This page bears the same papermaker's mark as 1:3:35. Twelfth in the original sequence "Live Oak, with Moss" (with ornamental Roman numeral), it became section 42 of "Calamus" in 1860. In 1867 Whitman changed the poem to an apostrophe, adding the first line "O Boy of the West!" (later removed) and permanently retitling it "To a Western Boy." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00338 Title:  [What think you I have] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 8.5 x 9 cm pasted to 6.5 x 9 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On a composite leaf of white wove paper consisting of two sections (8.5 x 9 and 6.5 x 9 cm) pasted together. Both sections are in black ink but, as Bowers notes, the lower verses were inscribed using a darker, thicker pen; the upper section is unrevised, but the lower section bears several alterations in the original ink. Pinholes at top of both sections and in the current center. Whitman numbered the page 9, in pencil, in the lower-left corner. Originally the sixth section of the sequence "Live Oak, with Moss," this poem was revised to form section 32 of "Calamus" in 1860, and in 1867 was retitled "What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?" Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00339 Title:  [When I heard at the close of] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 15 x 9.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  On two leaves of white wove paper, both measuring 15 x 9.5 cm; the lower half of the second page is pasted over with a section of white paper (8 x 9 cm) containing four revised verses. In black ink, with revisions in the same ink and in pencil. Pinholes mostly at top of both pages. Whitman numbered the pages 4 and 5, in pencil, in their lower-left corners. The third section of "Live Oak, with Moss" (with ornamental Roman numeral), this poem became section 11 of "Calamus" in 1860 and was permanently retitled "When I Heard at the Close of the Day" in 1867. For an earlier draft of the poem numbered V please see the verso of leaves 15-16 of "Premonition" (1:1:15-16). Bowers (p. 88) supplies the three earlier lines concealed by the paste-on revision to the second leaf. The lines on the first page correspond to verses 1-5 of the 1860 version, and those on the second page ("And when I thought how/ my friend,...") to lines 6-13. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00340 Title:  [You bards of ages hence] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, leaf 1 8 x 9 cm; leaf 2 14.5 x 9.5 cm pasted to 5.5 x 9.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  On two sections of white wove paper, the first cut down to 8 x 9 cm and the second a composite of two pieces pasted together, the top measuring 14.5 x 9.5 and the bottom 5.5 x 9.5 cm. In black ink, with a few revisions in the same ink. Pinholes at top and in center of both pages. Whitman numbered the first 9 1/2 and the second 10, in pencil, in the lower-left corner of each leaf. The Roman numeral is inscribed in an ornamental style, and the poem terminates with a wavy line. The seventh poem in the sequence "Live Oak, with Moss," became section 10 of "Calamus" in 1860 and was permanently retitled "Recorders Ages Hence" in 1867. The lines on the first page correspond to verses 1-3 of the 1860 version, and those on the second page ("Publish my name and hang up/ my picture...") to lines 4-11. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00307 Title:  As of Eternity Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  Content:  On two leaves of pink paper, both 21 x 13 cm, in black ink, with minor revisions in the same ink. Pinholes mostly in center and at top of both pages. This poem became section 21 of "Calamus" in 1860; the lines on the first manuscript page became verses 1-6, and those on the second ("I hear not the volumes of/ sound merely—...") became 7-9. Retitled "That Music Always Round Me" in 1867, it was transferred in 1871 to the "Whispers of Heavenly Death" cluster in Passage to India. In 1881 Whitman incorporated it, with the rest of the cluster, in the main body of Leaves. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00308 Title:  Buds Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21.5 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On pink leaf (21.5 x 13 cm), in black ink, with minor revisions in the same ink.A few pinholes at top and near center. A pencil question mark appears in parentheses in the upper-right corner. The number 52 appears to have been revised from 51. After adding several verses, Whitman designated this poem section 13 of "Calamus" in the 1860 Leaves, and, after dropping the first two and last three lines of the 1860 version, permanently retitled it "Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone" in 1867. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00310 Title:  Calamus-Leaves Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 15 x 9 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On white wove leaf, 15 x 9 cm, in black ink, with the title "Live Oak, with Moss" stricken out and "Calamus-Leaves" added in light brown ink, and with one small revision in blue pencil. Whitman numbered this page 1 in pencil. The first section of the original sequence "Live Oak, with Moss," this became section 14 of "Calamus" in 1860 and was permanently retitled "Not Heat Flames up and Consumes" in the 1867 Leaves. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00318 Title:  Leaf [A promise to Indiana] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 22 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one leaf of pink paper (22 x 13 cm), in black ink, with revisions in the same ink. Pinholes mostly in center. The original title was "Leaflet," and the original number seems to have been 70. After substantial revision (including the addition of the new first line "A promise and gift to California,") this poem became section 30 of "Calamus" in 1860. Whitman further revised the poem before including it, permanently retitled "A Promise to California," in the 1867 Leaves. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00319 Title:  Leaf [O dying! Always dying!] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21.5 x 12 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one light blue Williamsburgh tax blank (21.5 x 12 cm), in dark brown ink, with revisions in fine pen and pencil. Whitman penciled in a question mark, in parentheses, next to the title. With the addition of the new first line "O love!" this became section 27 of "Calamus" in 1860. In the 1867 Leaves it was retitled "O Living Always—Always Dying!" Whitman next transferred it to the "Passage to India" supplement bound in with Leaves, where it reappeared in 1876; in the 1881 Leaves Whitman permanently added it to the cluster "Whispers of Heavenly Death." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00320 Title:  Leaf [What place is besieged] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21.5 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one leaf of pink paper (21.5 x 13 cm), in black ink, with a fair copy of the poem at the bottom of the leaf and a deleted draft featuring heavy revisions in the same ink and in pencil at the top. This poem was originally numbered 68, and its title was "Leaflet—." In 1860 it became the second numbered verse paragraph of section 31 of "Calamus." In 1867 Whitman split up the two paragraphs and made them separate poems; these verses were moved to a position between the "Calamus" and a "Leaves of Grass" cluster and permanently retitled "What Place Is Besieged?" In 1881 the poem was transferred to the cluster "Inscriptions." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00325 Title:  Poemet Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  On two pink leaves (21 x 13 cm), in black ink, with revisions in the same ink and in light ink. Pinholes in center, at top, and in top-left corner. This poem was originally titled "Leaf" and apparently numbered 78; Whitman inscribed its new title, "Poemet," in light ink. It became section 17 of "Calamus" in 1860, with the lines on the first leaf corresponding to verses 1-7 and those on the second ("And what I dreamed I will/ henceforth tell...") to verses 8-13 of the first published version. Retitled "Of Him I Love Day and Night" in 1867, it was transferred to the "Whispers of Heavenly Death" cluster in Passage to India in 1871. In 1881 Whitman incorporated it, with the rest of the cluster, in the main body of Leaves. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00326 Title:  Prairie-Grass Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one leaf of pink paper (21 x 13 cm), in black ink, with revisions in an even blacker ink and in pencil. Pinholes in center. The poem was originally numbered 53. In 1860 Whitman designated it section 25 of "Calamus," transforming the title into a new first line and expanding the original first line into verses 2-4. In 1867 he further revised it, permanently retitling it "The Prairie-Grass Dividing." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00332 Title:  To a new personal admirer Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, leaf 1 13 x 11.5 cm; leaf 2 20 x 16 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  On two pieces of white wove paper, 13 x 11.5 and 20 x 16 cm, in brown-black ink, with substantial revisions in the same ink. Pinholes mostly at center and in left margins of both pages. This poem, featuring a new first line, became section 12 of "Calamus" in 1860; in 1867 Whitman dropped the last 2 1/2 lines and permanently retitled it "Are you the New Person Drawn Toward Me?" The first page contains verses corresponding to lines 2-3 of the 1860 version, and the lines on the second page ("Do you suppose you can easily/ be my lover,...") became verses 4-11. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00334 Title:  To A Stranger Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  On two leaves of pink paper, both 21 x 13 cm, in black ink, with revisions in the same ink and in light ink. Pinholes mostly in center and in left margin of each page. This poem was first numbered 94, and the first word was "Stranger"; Whitman penciled in a question mark, in parentheses, next to the title. It was numbered section 22 of "Calamus" in 1860: the lines on the first page correspond to verses 1-6 of the 1860 version, and those on the second ("You give me the pleasure") to verses 7-10. Whitman reintroduced the title "To a Stranger" in the 1867 Leaves. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00335 Title:  To one a century hence, or any number of centuries hence Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 10 x 13 cm pasted to 11.5 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one composite leaf of pink paper formed of two sections (10 x 13 and 11.5 x 13 cm) of the same page cut apart and pasted together in a new order. The poem number was originally 101 and then changed to 102; this number was deleted and the current ?101 added in fine pen. Bowers explains that the poem, in two discrete verse sections and inscribed in black ink (with title), originally occupied one full side of this leaf. When Whitman wanted to expand the first section without having to retranscribe the second one, he simply cut the two sections apart, flipped the first section over (turning it upside-down in the process), pasted the second section to the lower edge of the verso of the first section, and wrote his new first section (beginning "Throwing far, throwing over the head/ of death" and incorporating the original title as verse 3) in the blank space now created above the second section. The new first section is written and revised in light ink. As Bradley and Blodgett observe, the words "thirty-eight years old the/ eighty-first year of The States" indicate that Whitman composed the poem in 1857; these were revised to read "I, forty years old the Eighty-third Year of The States" in the 1860 Leaves, in which this poem constituted section 45 of "Calamus." In 1867 Whitman retitled the poem "Full of Life, Now." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00336 Title:  To One Who Will Understand Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21.5 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one leaf of pink paper (21.5 x 13 cm), in black ink, with revisions in the same ink, in pencil, and in fine ink (in that order). Pinholes mostly in center. Originally titled "To Those Who Will Understand" and numbered 100 (then 101, then the current ?100 in the fine pen). This was revised to form section 41 of "Calamus" in 1860 and was permanently retitled "Among the Multitude" in the 1867 Leaves. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Camps of Green Whitman Archive ID: loc.00298 Title:  Songs of Parting Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 18 leaves with handwritten annotations, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  Content:  Bound proofs of Whitman's cluster "Songs of Parting," containing 17 poems. Opposite a portrait of Whitman, the title page reads, "Songs of Parting, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof." These corrections were probably for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. The 17 poems included are: "As the Time Draws Nigh," "Ashes of Soldiers," "Years of the Modern," "Thoughts," "Song at Sunset," "My Legacy," "Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All," "Camps of Green," "Bathed in War's Perfume," "Now Finalé to the Shore," "As they Draw to a Close," "The Untold Want," "Portals," "These Carols," "To the Reader at Parting," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," and "So Long." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Carol Closing Sixty-Nine, A Whitman Archive ID: amh.00001 Title:  A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine and To Get the Final Lilt of Songs Date: 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, View Images:  1  Content:  This is an uncorrected galley proof of "A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine" and "To Get the Final Lilt of Songs," both of which were first published in separate issues of the New York Herald in 1888. This date is written on the leaf, possibly in Whitman's hand. The first published title of "To Get the Final Lilt of Songs" was "The Final Lilt of Songs." Repository: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections Title:  "A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine" Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 2 leaves Images: forthcoming Content:  Proof sheet with printed signature; proof sheet without printed signature. "A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine" was first published in 1888. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: uva.00157 Title:  A Carol-Cluster at 69 Date: 1887 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 cm x 20 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript contains a draft version of a poem entitled "A Carol-Cluster at 69" which was likely composed and edited around the time of its first publication in the New York Herald, May 21, 1888. In the same year, this poem appears in the annex Sands at Seventy under the title "A Carol Closing Sixty-nine". Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00158 Title:  Carols at nearing Seventy Date: around 1887 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28 cm x 21.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript contains a draft version of a poem appearing with two alternative titles: "Carols at Nearing Seventy" and "Carols Closing Sixty-Nine". A note at bottom states "Sent to Lippincotts." The poem was first published with the title in the New York Herald, May 21, 1888. In the same year, this poem appears in the annex Sands at Seventy under the title "A Carol Closing Sixty-nine". Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Title:  "Old Age's Lambent Peaks" Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 34.5 x 15 cm Images: forthcoming Content:  Two copies of a proof sheet with three poems: "Old Age's Lambent Peaks," "A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine," "To Get the Final Lilt of Songs," all published first in 1888. No annotations on the sheets. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old Age's Lambent Peaks" Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 33 x 15 cm; envelope 10.5 x 13 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  An edited proof sheet with three poems: "Old Age's Lambent Peaks," "A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine," "To Get the Final Lilt of Songs," all published first in 1888. In addition to corrections, Whitman has written a note to the printer at the top of the page. Also included is an envelope with "printer's proofs, short poems, Walt Whitman, 1888, (autographic)" written on it. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Centennial Songs---1876 Whitman Archive ID: uva.00064 Title:  Song of the Redwood Tree Date: about 1873 Physical Description: 20 leaves, 11 x 12.5 cm to 22.5 x 17.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  Content:  This manuscript contains a rough draft of the poem "Song of the Redwood-Tree" written, according to a note intialed by Whitman, during October and November 1873 prior to its first publication in the February 1874 issue of Harper's Magazine. In 1876 the poem was published in the group "Centennial Songs" and annexed to Two Rivulets. The poem appears ungrouped again in Leaves of Grass (1881). Several leaves contain deleted and undeleted titles or variant verse references to other published poems: "Eidólons", "Waves in the Vessel's Wake", "(a sonnet)" written "for Century Verses," which appears from a Library of Congress manuscript to have been a working title of the group that became "Centennial Verses" and "A California song". Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Chanting the Square Deific Whitman Archive ID: uva.00183 Title:  [Once I passed through a populous] I am the child of Democracy Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 20 x 16 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The recto verses appearing on this manuscript became the main section 9 of "Enfans d'Adam" in 1860 and were retitled "Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City" in 1867. On the verso appear two fragments: an undeleted verse that would be used in Satan's section of "Chanting the Square Deific" in "Sequel to Drum-Taps" (1865-66); and what would become section 23 of "Proto-Leaf", which becomes "Starting from Paumanok" in 1867. The undeleted verse is upside-down relative to the deleted section. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: duk.00273 Title:  [Poem of "(the Devil] Date: 1865 or before Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  This note for a poem about the devil is possibly related to the poem "Chanting the Square Deific," which was first published in 1865. The scrap has been attached by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with "[And there a hunter's camp]," "[(written for the voice)]," and "Poem of Sadness." Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library

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Chants Democratic and Native American Whitman Archive ID: uva.00115 Title:  [Walt Whitman's law] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This leaf bears the deleted title "To an artist, literat, &c". The first line "Come, I have now to tell you" revises and expands on another manuscript "To a Literat". These lines were eventually revised to form section 13 of the 1860 version of the poem "Chants Democratic" which was revised and permanently retitled "Laws for Creations" in 1872. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00110 Title:  They do not seem to me Date: about 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 13 cm x 11.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript is a draft of lines that were published in "Chants Democratic," number 13, in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. That poem was later revised and published as "Laws for Creations"; however, the lines on this manuscript are a draft of the section of the poem that was deleted after the 1860 publication. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00114 Title:  To a Literat Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The first two verses, taken more or less directly from a prose manuscript, "[Of Biography]," have no revisions, but the remaining three verses represent a significant expansion of the themes in the prose notes and are extensively revised. These verses, which precede "[Walt Whitman's law]" in the composition process, correspond, like "[Of Biography]," to section 13 of the 1860 version of the poem "Chants Democratic and Native American" which was revised and permanently retitled "Laws for Creations" in 1872. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Children of Adam Whitman Archive ID: duk.00279 Title:  [Theory of a Cluster of Poems] Date: about 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Note suggesting a cluster of poems about "the passion of Woman-Love," along with a few trial lines, all apparently related to the 1860 cluster "Enfans d'Adam" (later retitled "Children of Adam"). Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library

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Christmas Greeting From a Northern Star-Group to a Southern, 1889-'90, A Whitman Archive ID: loc.00008 Title:  [A North Star] Date: about 1889 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 18 x 20.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Written in pencil on a tan piece of paper cut from a larger sheet, 130 words with the title "A North Star [page torn] South." The poem was later revised and titled "A Christmas Greeting" and published in 1889. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00007 Title:  A Christmas Greeting Date: about 1889 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 20 x 23.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript of "A Christmas Greeting" was apparently intended for the printer, as there are few alterations. In right hand corner is notation in red: "if convenient let me have proof by noon." In left hand corner (in pencil) is the name "Horace Traubel." The poem was first published in 1889. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "A Christmas Greeting" Date: about 1889 Physical Description: 4 leaves, 13.5 x 18.5 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Written in ink on first proof of "A Christmas Greeting,"are several corrections. Proofs two and three have a notation by Traubel: "See notes 1/29/90." The third proof has three emendations. A fourth proof is unmarked. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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City of Orgies Whitman Archive ID: uva.00023 Title:  [City of my walks and joys] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 8.5 x 10 cm pasted to 20 x 16 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On a composite leaf consisting of two pieces of white wove paper. The smaller section is pasted over some lines in the top-left corner of the larger piece, from the top of which other lines were cut off. On the verso of the larger piece appears an extensively revised pencil draft of the first poem in "Enfans d'Adam". The group first appeard in print in 1860 with this poem as section 1. The poem was permanently titled "To the Garden of the World" in 1867. The verses on the current recto of the composite leaf became section 18 of "Calamus" in 1860; the poem was permanently titled "City of Orgies" in 1867. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00292 Title:  A City Walk Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 4.5 x 12 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A faint horizontal line beneath part of "A City Walk," along with the words' capitalization and central position on the page, indicate that Whitman may have contemplated using the words as the title of an independent poem. The closest he came to this title was "City of Walks and Joys," the name he originally assigned to "Calamus" 18 in his "Blue Book" revisions of the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. This title was changed in the "Blue Book" to "City of orgies, walks and joys" and finally became "City of Orgies" in the 1867 edition. The manuscript also suggests making a list of things seen while "crossing the ferry" an idea later developed and published in the poem "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry", 1860. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00293 Title:  Original. Walks Down This Street; Date: about 1856 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 7 x 16 cm paster to 4 x 15.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Both parts of the title are underlined. A wavy line appears at the foot of that section. The word "Original" at the head of the upper section suggests that Whitman was sketching out a new poem for a revised edition of Leaves of Grass. If it was the 1860 edition, as his style of inscription here appears to indicate, it is possible that this leaf could represent an early stage of the poem that would eventually become "City of Orgies", 1867. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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City of Ships Whitman Archive ID: uva.00276 Title:  [Ships sail upon the waters] Date: 1856-1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 15.5 x 14.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Part of the word "Leaves" appears in the lower right corner of the verso. On the verso, in blue pencil, appears a note, reading "Drum Taps—City of Ships" which appears to be in Whitman's hand. This may indeed have been a draft of the poem "City of Ships," which first appeared in 1865 as part of the independent publication Drum-Taps, but the similarities to the lines on another manuscript in the University of Virginia collection and lack of references to the Civil War indicate that it was inscribed prior to the publication of the the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Clear Midnight, A Whitman Archive ID: loc.00062 Title:  A Clear Midnight Date: about 1880 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 19.5 x 14.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of "A Clear Midnight", written on the reverse of a letter from "A. Williams" dated December 2, 1880. The poem was first published in 1881. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00083 Title:  A starry midnight Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of a poem entitled "A starry midnight," published as "A Clear Midnight" in 1881. At the top is a note in blue pencil that reads "?for end of poems" Repository: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress, 1842-1937

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Come, said my Soul Whitman Archive ID: hun.00021 Title:  Come, said my Soul Date: ca. 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a draft of "Come, said my Soul," a poem first published in 1874 and later used as the title-page epigraph for Leaves of Grass. Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00013 Title:  Go, said his Soul to a Poet. Date:  Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A rough draft, heavily revised, of a poem titled "Go, said his Soul to a Poet," which was first published as "Come, said my Soul" in 1874 and later used as the title-page epigraph for Leaves of Grass. Repository: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00064 Title:  Song of the Redwood Tree Date: about 1873 Physical Description: 20 leaves, 11 x 12.5 cm to 22.5 x 17.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  Content:  This manuscript contains a rough draft of the poem "Song of the Redwood-Tree" written, according to a note intialed by Whitman, during October and November 1873 prior to its first publication in the February 1874 issue of Harper's Magazine. In 1876 the poem was published in the group "Centennial Songs" and annexed to Two Rivulets. The poem appears ungrouped again in Leaves of Grass (1881). Several leaves contain deleted and undeleted titles or variant verse references to other published poems: "Eidólons", "Waves in the Vessel's Wake", "(a sonnet)" written "for Century Verses," which appears from a Library of Congress manuscript to have been a working title of the group that became "Centennial Verses" and "A California song". Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Title:  To the Soul Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 19.5 x 12.5 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Rough draft of a poem entitled "To the Soul". These lines appear to be very early ideas connected with the poem first published as "Come, said my Soul" in the Christmas number of the New York Daily Graphic, December 1874, then in the New York Tribune, February 19, 1876. This poem, signed by Whitman, became the title-page epigraph of Leaves of Grass, 1876 and 1891-2. The verso is blank. Repository: George S. Hellman Collection, The Library of Congress

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Commonplace, The Whitman Archive ID: loc.00076 Title:  The Commonplace Date: about 1890 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 27 x 19 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one side is a draft of "The Commonplace", which was first published in manuscript facsimile in 1891. On the other side is a cancelled early draft of "Osceola," a poem first published in 1890. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "The Commonplace" Date: March, 1891 Content:  A copy of the March, 1891, issue of Munson's Magazine, which includes, in manuscript facsimile, "The Commonplace." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Continuities Whitman Archive ID: uva.00159 Title:  [No birth-identity] Date: around 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 25.5 cm x 19.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript contains a draft of the poem first published in the New York Herald, March 20, 1888 with the title "Continuities". A note at the bottom of the page states "Sent to H March 17" indicating the draft was likely completed near the time of publication. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: loc.00075 Title:  Certainties, Faith, Counterbalances, Alternation Date: between 1882-1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 25 x 20 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Written in ink on the verso of a discarded letter (cancelled by a diagonal strike) from Talcott Williams, this draft appears to be trial lines for the poem later published as "Continuities" in the New York Herald, March 20, 1888. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: uva.00051 Title:  Embers of Ending Day Date: between 1880 and 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 9.5 cm x 11 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The manuscript appears to be a draft of a title or titles. The lines on the manuscript—"Embers of Ending Day," "Embers of day-fires mouldering"—are echoed in the partial line "the embers left from earlier fires" in the 1888 poem, "Continuities." On the verso is a note, dated December 28, 1880, confirming a request for a set of Whitmans's books: "Dear Sir, I shall be glad to supply you with a set (Two Volumes) of my books—There is only one kind of binding—Walt Whitman." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Title:  "[George Walker]" Date: between 1855-1856 Physical Description: handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  A notebook Whitman used for various purposes in the mid-1850s. Edward F. Grier, in his edition of Whitman's Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984. 6 vols), noted that the notebook contains lines and phrases that relate to several poems: "Song of the Broad-Axe," "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Starting from Paumanok," "A Song for Occupations," "By Blue Ontario's Shore," "Salut au Monde!," "To One Shortly to Die," and "A Woman Waits for Me." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: uva.00292 Title:  A City Walk Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 4.5 x 12 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A faint horizontal line beneath part of "A City Walk," along with the words' capitalization and central position on the page, indicate that Whitman may have contemplated using the words as the title of an independent poem. The closest he came to this title was "City of Walks and Joys," the name he originally assigned to "Calamus" 18 in his "Blue Book" revisions of the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. This title was changed in the "Blue Book" to "City of orgies, walks and joys" and finally became "City of Orgies" in the 1867 edition. The manuscript also suggests making a list of things seen while "crossing the ferry" an idea later developed and published in the poem "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry", 1860. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Dalliance of the Eagles, The Whitman Archive ID: loc.00132 Title:  [Skirting the river] Date: 1880 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12.5 x 19 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Lines later revised and published as "The Dalliance of the Eagles" in 1880. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: uva.00092 Title:  The dalliance of the eagles Date: about 1880 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12 x 19 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The poem was first published in the November 1880 issue of Cope's Tobacco Plant and became one of the new poems in the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass, where it appeared in the cluster "By the Roadside." At some point this leaf was pasted to a cardboard print of a photograph of Whitman stamped "Thomas C. Watkins" on the verso, but almost identical to one attributed by Henry Scholey Saunders, author of 100 Walt Whitman Photographs, to the studio of Frederick Gutekunst in Philadelphia, and reproduced in the 1889 pocket edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: loc.00023 Title:  The Dalliance of the Eagles Date: about 1880 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21.5 x 20 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  Content:  Made by pasting together six scraps of paper (back of a discarded envelope from Geo. S. Woodhull and Son, Law Offices, Camden, postmarked Apr 6; back of a discarded letter, dated New York, March 29, 1880, and other scraps), a late draft of the poem, "The Dalliance of the Eagles," about 120 words, showing a few minor variations from the published version. The poem was published first in 1880. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "The Dalliance of the Eagles" Date: about 1880 Physical Description: 3 leaves Images: forthcoming Content:  Three proofs, two of which also have "Ah, little knows the Laborer"(later appearing in a revised form as the first three lines of "Song of the Exposition"), and one of which also contains a proof of the poem "Hast never come to thee an hour?" Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "The Dalliance of the Eagles" Date: about 1880 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 25.8 x 18.6 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Written in ink on a proof of "The Dalliance of the Eagles," "Ah, little knows the Laborer," "Hast never come to thee an hour?,"and "My Picture-Gallery," are 14 words of notations in Whitman's hand. The proof has been pasted to a heavy piece of paper, on the verso of which is "A Riddle Song," part of "Italian Music in Dakota," and a clipped headline reading "The Society Articles Save Labor. Lighten the Labor for Mother." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Darest Thou Now O Soul Whitman Archive ID: loc.00323 Title:  Whispers of Heavenly Death Date: about 1870 Physical Description: 15 leaves, 20 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  Content:  Mostly mounted clippings of poems taken from Leaves of Grass, stitched and tied with ribbon by Walt Whitman. An autograph title page is followed by pages numbered in red pencil 469-484. One poem, "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," on p. 481 is written entirely in Walt Whitman's hand, and other corrections and additions are in Whitman's hand throughout. The poems included are: "Whispers of Heavenly Death," "Yet, Yet Ye Downcast Hours," "As Nearing Departure" (later published, in a different form, as "As the Time Draws Nigh"), "Darest Thou Now O Soul," "Of Him I Love Day and Night," "Quicksand Years That Whirl Me I Know Not Whither" (later published as "Quicksand Years"), "That Music Always Round Me," "As If a Phantom Caress'd Me," "O Living Always, Always Dying," "Here, Sailor!" (later published as "What Ship Puzzled at Sea"), "A Noiseless Patient Spider," "To One Shortly to Die," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," "This Day, O Soul," "What Place is Besieged?," "The Last Invocation," and "Pensive and Faltering." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Dead Emperor, The Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00006 Title:  The Dead Emperor Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Printer's copy of the poem "The Dead Emperor," which was first published in the New York Herald on 10 March 1888 and later reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888). The poem mourns the death of Emperor William I of Germany on 9 March 1888, and the Herald of 10 March contained details of his final hours as well as Whitman's poem. Repository: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00160 Title:  The Dead Emperor Date: 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 11 cm x 21 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript contains a draft of a poem first published in the New York Herald, March 10, 1888 entitled "The Dead Emperor". A note at top of the page states "sent Herald March 8" indicating that the draft was likely composed around the time of publication. On the verso appears part of a letter with Houghton Mifflin Publishers letterhead. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Dead Tenor, The Title:  "The Dead Tenor" Date: about 1884 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 24 x 15 cm, 10.5 x 16.5 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Written in pencil on a small page from a notebook, on which is pasted a clipping from a newspaper about the funeral of Signor Brignoli and the reaction of Patti, pinned to an unmarked proof of "The Dead Tenor," thirty words: "I heard the earliest singing of Patti, (in 1860 if I remember right)—heard her many times, Brignoli sang with her at her first appearance in NY in 1859." The poem was first published in 1884. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "The Dead Tenor" Date: about 1884 Physical Description: 4 leaves, 21 x 15 cm, 20.5 x 15.25 cm, 24.25 x 15 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Four proofs of "The Dead Tenor," two with notations and corrections in Whitman's hand. The other two have no annotations. The poem was first published in 1884. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: tex.00016 Title:  The Dead Tenor Date: 1884 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Signed draft of "The Dead Tenor," approximately 14 lines and written on several scraps pasted together. There is a newspaper clipping with the death notice of Pasquale Brignoli in the bottom lefthand corner. The poem was first published on 8 November 1884 in the Critic. Whitman was inspired to write the poem by the death of Pasquale (or Pasqualino) Brignoli (1824–1884), a tenor who made his New York debut in 1854 and remained a popular favorite for twenty years. According to Horace Traubel, Whitman appears to have known Brignoli. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin

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Death's Valley Whitman Archive ID: loc.00107 Title:  [Aye, well I know 'tis ghastly to descend] Date: about 1889 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Eight lines evidently written originally as part of "Death's Valley," which was published first in Harper's New Monthly Magazine in 1892. The stanza later was slightly revised and published as "On the Same Picture" (the title was probably supplied by Traubel) in 1897. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00321 Title:  Up, Lurid Stars! Date: about 1865 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 16 x 20 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Draft of a poem entitled "Up, Lurid Stars!" which was never published in Whitman's lifetime. It is related to the poem "World Take Good Notice," which was first published in 1865. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Death-Bouquet, A Whitman Archive ID: loc.00187 Title:  A Death-Bouquet Date: about 1890 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 25 x 19.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A five-line draft of a poem, entitled "A Death-Bouquet," which was never published and has an unknown relationship to Whitman's published work. A subtitle reads "Fresh pick'd noon time early January, 1890, By Walt Whitman." These lines bear some relation to Whitman's brief essay of the same name. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Death of General Grant Whitman Archive ID: tex.00007 Title:  As one by one withdraw the lofty actors Date: 1885 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Printer's copy, annotated and lightly corrected, of the poem first published under the title "As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors" in Harper's Weekly, 16 May 1885. The poem was reprinted as "Grant" in the Critic, 15 August 1885 and revised as "Death of General Grant" in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888). Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Title:  "As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors" Date: May 15, 1885 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 54.5 x 36 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  A page of The Post, Camden, N.J., 15 May 1885. Written in pencil in the margin at the top of front page are five words in Whitman's hand: "As one by one Withdraw." The Library of Congress's description of the item mentions that page three of the newspaper includes a reprint from Harper's Weekly of "As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors"; however, only one leaf is currently in the folder. "As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors" was later published as "Death of General Grant." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors" Date: about 1885 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 16.5 x 15 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Written in pencil at the bottom of a proof of "As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors," a thirteen-line poem on President Grant's death, with a printed signature, four words: "Harper's Weekly, May 16." On the verso in another hand is "tr Nov 20 1885." Pasted on the verso is a small piece of paper, 5.25 x 10.75 cm, on which is written: "This fragment of Whitman's, Mr. (John) Burroughs sent me recently, with a lot of old papers & letters. As it has a memorandum in WW's hand, I know you will like to have it. C(lara).B(arrus)." This poem, published first in 1885, was also published as "Death of General Grant." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors" Date: about 1885 Physical Description: 4 leaves, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Four proofs of the thirteen-line poem, "As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors,"first published in 1885, later published as "Death of General Grant": 1) without printed signature; 2) with signature written in Whitman's hand; 3) with printed signature; and 4) with notation beside printed signature that it was to be moved to the left and, to be inserted, three words: "in Harper's Weekly." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00089 Title:  Death of Gen. Grant Date: ca. 1885 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of the poem "Death of General Grant" first published August 15, 1885 and later published with the same title in 1888. Repository: Walt Whitman Collection, The Library of Congress

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Debris (Cluster) Whitman Archive ID: uva.00251 Title:  [Do I not prove myself] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 8 x 18.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On the verso appear two undeleted lines beginning "Whatever I say of myself, you shall apply to yourself..." that eventually formed part of section 20 of "Song of Myself." The deleted pencil lines beginning "I think there will never be any more heaven or hell / than there is now," were revised to form what would eventually become the second verse paragraph of section 3 of "Song of Myself." After heavy revision the lines appearing on the recto of the manuscript were used in what would be section 41 of "Song of Myself." These lines also bear relation to the untitled 14th poem of the "Debris" cluster (1860). The lines were not among the various passages of "Debris" that survived in the final poems of Leaves of Grass. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Democratic Vistas Whitman Archive ID: loc.00144 Title:  [To What You Said] Date: about 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Cancelled draft written in pencil on the verso of page 30 (Whitman's numbering) of a sixty-three page rough draft of Democratic Vistas. "[To What You Said]" bears a strong relationship to the "Calamus" poems that were composed between 1857-1860. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Dismantled Ship, The Whitman Archive ID: loc.00191 Title:  The Dismantled Ship Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of "The Dismantled Ship," first published in 1888, written on the inside of an opened envelope (postmark date unclear). At the bottom of the page in a note in Whitman's hand: "probably printed in Herald 19th Feb. '88." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Drum-Taps Whitman Archive ID: amh.00004 Title:  [Drum-Taps] Date: undated; between 1865-1892 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This note indicates the proper location for the Drum-Taps poems in the page sequence of what was apparently a manuscript or some other pre-publication form of Whitman's poems. Whitman first used the title Drum-Taps for a volume of poems published in 1865. The title was also applied to a cluster of poems within later editions of Leaves of Grass. Repository: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

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Dying Veteran, The Whitman Archive ID: loc.00193 Title:  The Dying Veteran Date: June 23, 1887 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28 x 21.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A dated, signed draft of "The Dying Veteran," first published in 1887. A note at end reads: "Given to Thomas Mosher by Horace Traubel, 1900." On verso of the page is a note by Whitman to "Mr. Curtz" (type setter) asking for a finished proof by the middle of the afternoon, Wednesday. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "The Dying Veteran" Date: about 1887 Physical Description: 1 leaf Images: forthcoming Content:  A proof of "The Dying Veteran," first published in 1887, with a note by Traubel. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Earth, My Likeness Whitman Archive ID: uva.00312 Title:  [Earth] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 14.5 x 9.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one leaf of white wove paper (14.5 x 9.5 cm), in brown-black ink, with revisions in lighter ink (including the deletion, undone in 1860, of the phrase "My likeness!" after "Earth!"). Pinholes mostly at top and in center. Whitman penciled in the number 15 in the lower-left corner. Originally poem XI in the sequence "Live Oak, with Moss" (with the Roman numeral ornamentally drawn), this was revised to become section 36 of "Calamus" in 1860. In 1867 Whitman retitled the poem "Earth! My Likeness!" Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: loc.00225 Title:  [O Earth, my likeness] Date: 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 20.5 x 16 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of the poem first published as "Calamus, No. 36" in 1860 ("Earth, My Likeness" in the so-called Deathbed Edition of Leaves of Grass). A number 8 and a roman number VI are at the top of the page. This manuscript has a vertical line drawn straight through the middle. On the verso is a page of prose in Whitman's hand with "Rel." at the top. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Eidlons Whitman Archive ID: bpl.00007 Title:  Eidólons Date: ca. 1876 Physical Description: 5 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  Content:  These leaves are a draft of "Eidólons," first published in 1876. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Boston Public Library Whitman Archive ID: loc.00078 Title:  Leave-taking Words Date: undated Physical Description: 1 leaf, 23.5 x 13.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The page appears to be a draft of a title page for a manuscript titled "Leave-taking Words" or "Last Ripples (A Prelude to Passage to India)." At the bottom of the page are four lines from the end of "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," first published as "A Child's Reminiscence" in 1859. The lines from the poem are cleanly written, suggesting that they were meant to serve as an epigraph for Whitman's manuscript. "Passage to India" was published first in 1871. On the verso is a draft of a stanza of "Eidólons," first published in 1876. Repository: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress, 1842-1937 Whitman Archive ID: uva.00064 Title:  Song of the Redwood Tree Date: about 1873 Physical Description: 20 leaves, 11 x 12.5 cm to 22.5 x 17.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  Content:  This manuscript contains a rough draft of the poem "Song of the Redwood-Tree" written, according to a note intialed by Whitman, during October and November 1873 prior to its first publication in the February 1874 issue of Harper's Magazine. In 1876 the poem was published in the group "Centennial Songs" and annexed to Two Rivulets. The poem appears ungrouped again in Leaves of Grass (1881). Several leaves contain deleted and undeleted titles or variant verse references to other published poems: "Eidólons", "Waves in the Vessel's Wake", "(a sonnet)" written "for Century Verses," which appears from a Library of Congress manuscript to have been a working title of the group that became "Centennial Verses" and "A California song". Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Election Day, November, 1884 Title:  "[to go in Sunday's paper Oct 26]" Date: October 25, 1884 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 6.5 x 16 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  A small note accompanying a manuscript of "If I Should Need to Name, O Western World" with printing instructions probably for the Philadelphia Press, who published the poem on October 26, 1884. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "If I Should Need To Name, O Western World" Date: October 28, 1884 Physical Description: # leaves, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Clipped copy of "If I Should Need to Name, O Western World" from the Camden, New Jersey, Post, October 28, 1884, with a note in Whitman's hand. This poem was later published with the title "Election Day, November, 1884." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00203 Title:  If I should need to name, O Western World! Date: October 25, 1884 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 26 x 20.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  Content:  Draft of "If I Should Need to Name, O Western World!", first published in the Philadelphia Press on October 26, 1884 and later published with the title "Election Day, November, 1884." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Ethiopia Saluting the Colors Whitman Archive ID: pml.00004 Title:  Ethiopia saluting the colors Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  Content:  A two-page draft of "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors," which was published first in 1871. This draft reflects a later version of the poem, published first in 1881. The second page of the draft shows two versions of stanza four (Whitman's number), one written on the page and another on a separate slip of paper that he pasted over the first as a revision. Repository: The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

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Europe, The 72d and 73d Years of These States Whitman Archive ID: loc.00289 Title:  Resurgemus Date: about 1884 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 24.5 x 14.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  Content:  A clipping from the September, 1884 issue of the London magazine To-Day. Printed in the issue is Whitman's poem "Resurgemus," and in Whitman's hand are some corrections and a bibliographic notation. The publication history of this poem is unusual: it was published first as "Resurgemus" in 1850, then untitled in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, then as "Poem of The Dead Young Men of Europe, the 72nd and 73rd Years of These States" in the 1856 edition, and as "Europe, The 72nd and 73rd Years of These States" in the 1860 and subsequent editions. Therefore, its appearance in an 1884 periodical under an old title seems highly unusual. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Evening Lull, An Whitman Archive ID: unc.00009 Title:  an evening lull Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  This is a manuscript draft of the poem, "An Evening Lull," which was first published in November Boughs in 1888. Repository: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Excelsior Title:  "Excelsior" Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 3 leaves Images: forthcoming Content:  Three proof sheets of "Excelsior" with no annotations on them. This poem was first published in 1856 under the title "Poem of the Heart of The Son of Manhattan Island." In 1860 it appeared as "Chants Democratic No. 15." It did not have the title "Excelsior" until 1867. The proofs show a version of the poem that was not published until the 1881-82 edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Faces Whitman Archive ID: uva.00273 Title:  [Can ? make me so exuberant yet so faintish] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 6 x 19.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The recto verses bear some similarity to what would eventually form section 28 of "Song of Myself," while the deleted lines on the verso (beginning "This mouth is pulled by some sexton for his dismalest fee,") represent a fragment of draft lines eventually incorporated in the sixth poem of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, a poem permanently retitled "Faces" in the 1872 edition. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: duk.00264 Title:  [The Great Laws do not treasure chips] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript contains lines which, after revision, appeared in the eleventh poem in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, later titled "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?" On the verso are cancelled lines, beginning "hands are cut," which later appeared, in a revised form, in "Faces," which was originally published as the sixth poem of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00258 Title:  [Topple down upon him] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 15.5 x 19 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This leaf, a reworking of the lines beginning "I am a Curse" in Library of Congress notebook #80, with verses added from the manuscript also in the University of Virgina collection that begins "I am a curse", appears to have come later in the revision process. The only line specifically linking the poem to the theme of slavery ("I look off the river with my bloodshot eyes, after / the steamboat that carries away my woman.—"), adapted from the "I am a curse" leaf, is deleted, and Whitman apparently rejected these lines and the "curse" theme in general as he moved toward the draft on the leaf in the Virgina collection that begins "I am a hell-name and a Curse...", which would eventuate in the 1855 published version. On the verso appear two sets of trial verses for what would eventually become the second verse paragraph of section 4 of the poem "Faces," which in 1855 was published as the sixth of twelve poems in the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Facing West from California's Shores Title:  "[(illeg.) Dick Hunt]" Date: 1856-1857 Physical Description: handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  |  31  |  32  |  33  |  34  |  35  |  36  |  37  |  38  |  39  |  40  |  41  |  42  |  43  |  44  |  45  |  46  |  47  |  48  |  49  |  50  |  51  |  52  |  53  |  54  |  55  |  56  |  57  |  58  |  59  |  60  |  61  |  62  |  63  |  64  |  65  |  66  |  67  |  68  |  69  |  70  |  71  |  72  |  73  |  74  |  75  |  76  |  77  |  78  |  79  |  80  |  81  |  82  |  83  |  84  |  85  |  86  |  87  |  88  |  89  |  90  |  91  |  92  |  93  |  94  |  95  |  96  |  97  |  98  |  99  |  100  |  101  |  102  |  103  |  104  |  105  |  106  |  107  |  108  |  109  |  110  |  111  |  112  |  113  |  114  |  115  |  116  |  117  |  118  |  119  |  120  |  121  |  122  |  123  |  124  |  125  |  126  |  127  |  128  |  129  |  130  |  131  |  132  |  133  |  134  |  135  |  136  |  137  |  138  |  139  |  140  |  141  |  142  |  143  |  144  |  145  |  146  |  147  |  148  |  149  |  150  |  151  |  152  |  153  |  154  |  155  |  156  |  157  |  158  |  159  |  160  |  161  |  162  |  163  |  164  |  165  |  166  |  167  |  168  |  169  |  170  |  171  |  172  |  173  |  174  |  175  Content:  A notebook Whitman used for various purposes in the mid-1850s. Edward F. Grier, in his edition of Whitman's Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984. 6 vols.), noted that the notebook contains lines and phrases that relate to several poems: "Song of the Broad-Axe," "To a Common Prostitute," "You Felons on Trial in Courts," "Starting from Paumanok," "Trickle Drops," "I Was Looking for a Long While," "Poem of Joys," "Facing West from California's Shores," "To the States," "A Song of the Rolling Earth," "On the Beach a Night Alone," "Full of Life Now," and "With Antecedents." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: uva.00184 Title:  Hindustan Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 12.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The number 80 appears above the deleted 79 above the title, along with a pencil question mark in parentheses. This poem was revised to form main section 10 of "Enfans d'Adam" in 1860, and in 1867 was given two new opening lines and retitled "Facing West from California's Shores." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Fancies at Navesink Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00043 Title:  [or, Halcyon Days] | Fancies at Navesink Date: around 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Draft for a title page beginning, "or Halycon days," with a note at the head "for title page to supplement of L of G not Nove. Boughs." The verso appears to have been a previous title page draft for "Fancies at Navesink." "Halcyon Days" first appeared in the New York Herald on 29 January 1888, and was reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy Annex" to Leaves of Grass (1888). Repository: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library Whitman Archive ID: amh.00003 Title:  Fancies at Navesink Date: May 1885 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  This is a galley proof of four poems from "Fancies of Navesink," a group of eight poems first published in The Nineteenth Centuryin August 1885: "The Pilot in the Mist," "Had I the Choice," "You Tides With Ceaseless Swell," and "Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning." Signed, dated, and heavily annotated by Whitman. Repository: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections Title:  "Fancies at Navesink" Date: August, 1885 Content:  A copy of the periodical Nineteenth Century, No. 102, August, 1885, containing Whitman's group of eight poems "Fancies at Navesink." The poems in this cluster are: "The Pilot in the Mist," "Had I the Choice," "You Tides with Ceaseless Swell," "Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning," "Proudly the Flood Comes In," "By That Long Scan of Waves," and "Then Last of All." In this publication, the poems "Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning" and "And Yet Not You Alone" are not separated, and "And Yet Not You Alone" appears as the final stanza of the first poem. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Fancies at Navesink" Date: about 1885 Physical Description: 3 leaves, 48 x 15 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Three copies of an oversized proof of "Fancies at Navesink," a group of poems first published in 1885. The poems in this cluster are: "The Pilot in the Mist," "Had I the Choice," "You Tides with Ceaseless Swell," "Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning," "Proudly the Flood Comes In," "By That Long Scan of Waves," and "Then Last of All." In these proofs, the poems "Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning" and "And Yet Not You Alone" are not separated, and "And Yet Not You Alone" appears as the final stanza of the first poem. The proofs have no editorial corrections, but one is signed by Whitman and another contains a note in another hand reading, "from the papers of Walt Whitman given to Mosher by Traubel 1906." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: yal.00039 Title:  Fancies at Navesink Date: 1885 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  This manuscript appears to concern the possible arrangement of the eight-poem cycle, "Fancies at Navesink," which was published in the magazine, Nineteenth Century, in August 1885. The titles of three poems not included in "Fancies at Navesink"—"After the Supper and Talk," "You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me," and "Ah, Not This Granite Dead and Cold"—are also mentioned. This manuscript is bound with others under the title, "Fancies at Navesink." Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Whitman Archive ID: yal.00072 Title:  Fancies at Navesink Date: about 1885 Physical Description: 5 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  Content:  These five leaves remain from what was originally a six-leaf manuscript (a note at the top of the first leaf reads, in Whitman's hand, "these six pages all one piece") of "Fancies at Navesink," an eight-poem cycle which was first published in the magazine, Nineteenth Century, in August 1885. The poems included are "The Pilot in the Mist," "Had I the Choice," "Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning," "Proudly the Flood Comes In," "By That Long Scan of Waves," and "Then Last of All." These leaves are bound with others under the title, "Fancies at Navesink." Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Whitman Archive ID: hun.00014 Title:  Fancies at Navesink, the Pilot in the Mist Date: ca. 1884 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a draft of "Pilot in the Mist," a poem that is part of the eight-poem sequence "Fancies at Navesink," first published in 1885. Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

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Farm Picture, A Title:  "A Farm Picture" Date: about 1871 Physical Description: 1 leaf Images: forthcoming Content:  A proof of "A Farm Picture," first published in this form in 1871. No annotations on the sheet. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Fast Anchor'd Eternal O Love! Whitman Archive ID: uva.00313 Title:  [Here the frailest leaves of me] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 15 x 9.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one leaf of white wove paper (15 x 9.5 cm), in medium-brown ink, with one revision in the same ink. Pinholes mostly at top and in center. The two sets of verses are divided by a short horizontal line. In 1860 the first set, with the addition of a new first line ("Here my last words, and the most baffling,") became section 44 of "Calamus"; the poem was permanently retitled "Here the Frailest Leaves of Me", and the new first line dropped, in 1867. The second set was revised to form section 38 of "Calamus" in 1860; in 1867 it was further revised and retitled "Fast Anchor'd, Eternal, O Love." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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First Annex: Sands at Seventy Whitman Archive ID: uva.00168 Title:  [With every heaving wave] Date: 1880s Physical Description: 1 leaf, 24 cm x 14.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript contains a draft version of the poem "By That Long Scan of Waves" included in the group of poems "Fancies at Navesink". The group was first published in Nineteenth Century, August, 1885. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: duk.00056 Title:  Carols Closing Sixty-Nine Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A manuscript of suggestions for the title of a collection of poetry which eventually appeared under the heading "Sands at Seventy" in the 1888 volume of poetry and prose entitled November Boughs. The title "Carols Closing Sixty-Nine" appears here as one of the possible names for this collection. The verso of this document contains the underlined words "Sands at Seventy" and a cancelled note reading "for annex to the preced," which corresponds to ideas expressed on the recto. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: yal.00020 Title:  Sands at Seventy Date: about 1884 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a note written on the verso of a postmarked envelope that offers the title, "Sands on the Shores of Seventy &c &c for Annex to the preceding," as an alternative to the title, "Sands at Seventy," which was first used for a cluster of poems in November Boughs, published in 1888. Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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First Dandelion, The Whitman Archive ID: uva.00162 Title:  [Simple and Fresh] Date: around 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 26 cm x 20 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript contains a draft of a poem first published in the New York Herald, March 12, 1888 entitled "The First Dandelion". A note on the bottom of the page states "sent to Herald March 11" indicating the draft was likely composed around the time of publication. On the verso appears a letter to Whitman from Witcraft dated 3/8/88. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Font of Type, A Whitman Archive ID: unc.00003 Title:  A font of type Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  This is a manuscript draft of the poem, "A Font of Type," which was first published in November Boughs in 1888. Repository: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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For Queen Victoria's Birthday Title:  "For Queen Victoria's Birthday" Date: about 1890 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 24 x 15 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Two copies of proofs of "For Queen Victoria's Birthday," one with correction and note in Whitman's hand, the other with no annotations in Whitman's hand but with a notation by Horace Traubel at the bottom. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00198 Title:  For Queen Victoria's Birthday Date: May 24, 1890 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  A copy of The Critic (May 24, 1890) containing Whitman's poem "For Queen Victoria's Birthday" on page 262. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: yal.00032 Title:  For Queen Victoria's Birthday Date: about 1890 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a typed and corrected proof of "For Queen Victoria's Birthday," first published in the Philadelphia Public Ledger on May 24, 1890. Whitman later included this poem in the 1891 edition of Good-Bye My Fancy. Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Whitman Archive ID: tex.00020 Title:  For Queen Victoria's Birth-Day Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Lightly revised printer's copy of "For Queen Victoria's Birthday," which was published in Good-Bye My Fancy in 1891. Also included are an uncorrected proof sheet and an envelope, which is inscribed with a note in Whitman's hand, indicating that he presented them together as a gift to an unknown recipient. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Title:  "Ship Ahoy!" Date: between 1891-1892 Physical Description: 1 leaf Images: forthcoming Content:  Two proof pages, with several notes by Traubel in the margins. The poems included on the pages are: "Ship Ahoy!","Death's Valley," "For us two, reader dear," and "For Queen Victoria's Birthday." "Death's Valley" was first published in 1892; the other poems were published first in 1891. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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For Us Two, Reader Dear Title:  "An Old Man's Recitatives" Date: about 1890 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 36.5 x 19.5 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Proofs of four poems pasted together and collected under the main handwritten title "An Old Man's Recitatives." The poems included are: "Ancient songs reciting" (published as "Old Chants" in 1891), "Grand is the seen" (first published in 1891), "Death dogs my steps" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891), and "For us two, reader dear," first published in 1891. A note in Whitman's hand in the right margin details failed attempts to publish this grouping in Scribner's. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00362 Title:  For us two, reader dear Date: about 1890 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 22.5 x 17.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of the poem "For Us Two, Reader Dear," first published in 1891. Also on the leaf is a letter to Whitman dated June 4, 1890 from Mrs. Noble T. Biddle. Repository: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress, 1842-1937 Whitman Archive ID: loc.00219 Title:  My Task Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28 x 22 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Manuscripts of the following four poems, written neatly with slight corrections: "My task," "L of G's Purport," "Death dogs my steps," and "For us two, reader dear." All of the verses except "For us two, reader dear" were fused together and published as one poem entitled "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old-Age Recitatives" Date: between 1890-1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 30.5 x 16 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  A galley proof of a group of six poems titled "Old-Age Recitatives." The poems included are: "Sail out for good, Eidolon yacht!" (first published in 1891), "My task" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891), "L. of G.'s Purport" (only the first two lines of the poem of the same title published in 1891), "Death dogs my steps" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891), "For us two, reader dear" (first published in 1891), and "Grand is the seen" (first published in 1891). On the verso is a note to printer. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old-Age Recitatives" Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 28 x 21 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Proof pages of six poems collected under the general title "Old-Age Recitatives." The poems included are: "Old Chants" (first published in 1891), "On, On the Same,Ye Jocund Twain!" (first published in 1891), "Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht!" (first published in 1891), "L. of G.'s Purport" (only two lines of the twelve-line poem of the same title first published in 1891), "My task" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891), and "For us two, reader dear" (first published in 1891). At the top of the first page is a note to the printer in Whitman's hand. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old-Age Recitatives" Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 2 leaves Images: forthcoming Content:  Two proofs of a group of six poems titled "Old-Age Recitatives." The poems included are: "Sail Out for Good, Eidólon yacht!" (first published in 1891), "My task" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891), "L. of G.'s Purport" (only the first two lines of the poem of the same title published in 1891), "Death dogs my steps" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891), "For us two, reader dear" (first published in 1891), and "Grand is the seen" (first published in 1891). Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Ship Ahoy!" Date: between 1891-1892 Physical Description: 1 leaf Images: forthcoming Content:  Two proof pages, with several notes by Traubel in the margins. The poems included on the pages are: "Ship Ahoy!","Death's Valley," "For us two, reader dear," and "For Queen Victoria's Birthday." "Death's Valley" was first published in 1892; the other poems were published first in 1891. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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France, the 18th Year of These States Whitman Archive ID: uva.00221 Title:  France, the 18th Year of These States Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 5 leaves, 21 x 13 cm to 22.5 x 13.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  Content:  Originally numbered 86 and revised by overwriting to 87; Whitman also numbered the leaves 1-5 (in pencil, lower left corner), with the 1 replacing a 6 and the 2 written over what looks like a 7. The leaves correspond to various verses in the 1860 published version "France, The 18th Year of These States". Although Whitman never changed the title, and did not revise the poem much, he did transfer it twice, grouping it in the cluster "Songs of Insurrection" within the main body of Leaves of Grass in 1871 and 1876, and in 1881 finally transferring it to the new cluster "Birds of Passage" within Leaves of Grass. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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From Far Dakota's Caons Whitman Archive ID: loc.00121 Title:  [There in the far northwest] Date: 1876 Physical Description: 10 p., 20 x 12 cm, 11.5 x 18.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  Content:  Apparently, two versions of a poem about the death of Custer. On the verso of one of the pages is "A Death Sonnet," and on another is "A Death Sonnet for Custer." The poem was published in June 10, 1876 as "A Death Sonnet for Custer." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00007 Title:  A Death-Sonnet for Custer Date: about 1876 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Printer's copy of the poem "A Death-Sonnet for Custer" with instructions to preserve the manuscipt in its current form for Bayard Taylor. "A Death-Sonnet for Custer" first appeared in the New York Daily Tribune on 10 July 1876. It was then reprinted as "From Far Dakotas Cañon" in Leaves of Grass (1881-82). Repository: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library Title:  "Far From Dakota's Cañons" Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 1 leaf Images: forthcoming Content:  A proof with no annotations. "From Far Dakota's Cañons" was published first as "A Death Sonnet for Custer" in 1876. It was given the new title in 1881. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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From My Last Years Whitman Archive ID: loc.00199 Title:  From My Last Years Date: about 1876 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 23.75 x 13.75 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of "From My Last Years" written in ink on a sheet of stationery, with three lines crossed out with a blue pencil and one of the correctons in blue pencil. "From My Last Years" was published only once, in Two Rivulets, 1876. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "From My Last Years" Date: about 1876 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 5 x 13.25 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Written in pencil on a scrap of paper cut from the bottom of a larger sheet to which has been attached a clipping of the poem, "From My Last Years," with corrections in the margin. The poem was published only in Two Rivulets, 1876, without these corrections. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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From Noon to Starry Night Whitman Archive ID: tex.00004 Title:  [Among the many] Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one side of the leaf, Whitman explores the idea that life, with its petty concerns, is "an exercise, a training & development" for an afterlife. A note at the top suggests that the poet considered developing this thought in conjunction with "From Noon to Starry Night," a cluster that first appeared in the 1881–1882 edition of Leaves of Grass. The writing on the reverse side of the leaf appears to reflect Whitman's disillusionment with the current political situation and puts forward various suggestions for reform. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Whitman Archive ID: tex.00081 Title:  [Now, trumpeter] Date: about 1872 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Nine draft lines, uncorrected, of section 8 of "The Mystic Trumpeter," a poem first published in The Kansas Magazine in February 1872. The verso features references to the poems "From Noon to Starry Night" and "The Mystic Trumpeter," as well as to a "vol. II." Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Whitman Archive ID: tex.00079 Title:  I cannot guess waited their due time Date:  Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Three lines on a scrap of paper that seem to suggest that Whitman is musing on how "generous" some upcoming "entertainment" will be. The scrap appears to be torn from a draft of "From Noon to Starry Night", since there are about three lines from the poem on the reverse, with revisions. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin

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Full of Life now Title:  "[(illeg.) Dick Hunt]" Date: 1856-1857 Physical Description: handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  |  31  |  32  |  33  |  34  |  35  |  36  |  37  |  38  |  39  |  40  |  41  |  42  |  43  |  44  |  45  |  46  |  47  |  48  |  49  |  50  |  51  |  52  |  53  |  54  |  55  |  56  |  57  |  58  |  59  |  60  |  61  |  62  |  63  |  64  |  65  |  66  |  67  |  68  |  69  |  70  |  71  |  72  |  73  |  74  |  75  |  76  |  77  |  78  |  79  |  80  |  81  |  82  |  83  |  84  |  85  |  86  |  87  |  88  |  89  |  90  |  91  |  92  |  93  |  94  |  95  |  96  |  97  |  98  |  99  |  100  |  101  |  102  |  103  |  104  |  105  |  106  |  107  |  108  |  109  |  110  |  111  |  112  |  113  |  114  |  115  |  116  |  117  |  118  |  119  |  120  |  121  |  122  |  123  |  124  |  125  |  126  |  127  |  128  |  129  |  130  |  131  |  132  |  133  |  134  |  135  |  136  |  137  |  138  |  139  |  140  |  141  |  142  |  143  |  144  |  145  |  146  |  147  |  148  |  149  |  150  |  151  |  152  |  153  |  154  |  155  |  156  |  157  |  158  |  159  |  160  |  161  |  162  |  163  |  164  |  165  |  166  |  167  |  168  |  169  |  170  |  171  |  172  |  173  |  174  |  175  Content:  A notebook Whitman used for various purposes in the mid-1850s. Edward F. Grier, in his edition of Whitman's Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984. 6 vols.), noted that the notebook contains lines and phrases that relate to several poems: "Song of the Broad-Axe," "To a Common Prostitute," "You Felons on Trial in Courts," "Starting from Paumanok," "Trickle Drops," "I Was Looking for a Long While," "Poem of Joys," "Facing West from California's Shores," "To the States," "A Song of the Rolling Earth," "On the Beach a Night Alone," "Full of Life Now," and "With Antecedents." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: uva.00335 Title:  To one a century hence, or any number of centuries hence Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 10 x 13 cm pasted to 11.5 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one composite leaf of pink paper formed of two sections (10 x 13 and 11.5 x 13 cm) of the same page cut apart and pasted together in a new order. The poem number was originally 101 and then changed to 102; this number was deleted and the current ?101 added in fine pen. Bowers explains that the poem, in two discrete verse sections and inscribed in black ink (with title), originally occupied one full side of this leaf. When Whitman wanted to expand the first section without having to retranscribe the second one, he simply cut the two sections apart, flipped the first section over (turning it upside-down in the process), pasted the second section to the lower edge of the verso of the first section, and wrote his new first section (beginning "Throwing far, throwing over the head/ of death" and incorporating the original title as verse 3) in the blank space now created above the second section. The new first section is written and revised in light ink. As Bradley and Blodgett observe, the words "thirty-eight years old the/ eighty-first year of The States" indicate that Whitman composed the poem in 1857; these were revised to read "I, forty years old the Eighty-third Year of The States" in the 1860 Leaves, in which this poem constituted section 45 of "Calamus." In 1867 Whitman retitled the poem "Full of Life, Now." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Germs Whitman Archive ID: uva.00208 Title:  As of Origins Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, three pasted sections of 6.5 x 13 cm, 8 x 13 cm, and 12.5 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This poem became section 19 of the cluster "Leaves of Grass" in the 1860 edition. In 1867 Whitman moved it to a different "Leaves of Grass" group in the "Songs Before Parting" annex. In 1872 it was retitled "Germs" and was ultimately transferred, in 1881, to the cluster "By the Roadside." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Going Somewhere Whitman Archive ID: upa.00003 Title:  'Going Somewhere.' Date: about 1887 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a manuscript of the poem, "'Going Somewhere,'" which was one of four poems from the collection, "November Boughs," first published in Lippincott's Magazine in November 1887. "'Going Somewhere'" was later reprinted in the "Sands of Seventy" annex to the 1888 edition of Leaves of Grass. Whitman Archive ID: pru.00003 Title:  'Going Somewhere' Date: ca. 1887 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Draft of "'Going Somewhere,'" which was published first in 1887. Also has instructions to the printer in Whitman's hand. Repository: Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library Title:  "Going Somewhere" Date: about 1887 Physical Description: 3 leaves, 15 x 16 cm, 15.5 x 15 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Three proofs of "'Going Somewhere,'" first published in 1887. One of the proofs has corrections and a note in Whitman's hand. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "November Boughs" Date: 1887 Physical Description: handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Clipping from a newspaper of four Whitman poems: "You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me," "'Going Somewhere,'" "After the Supper and Talk," and "Not Meagre Latent Boughs Alone." At the top is the title "November Boughs." At the bottom of the clipping is written, in Whitman's hand, "1887." The poems were published first in Lippincott's Magazine, November, 1887. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "November Boughs" Date: about 1887 Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Three proofs of a collection of four poems ("You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me," "'Going Somewhere,'" "After the Supper and Talk," and "Not Meagre Latent Boughs Alone") under the general title "November Boughs." The first is made by pasting together proofs of each poem in the order desired; the other two have all four poems printed on one sheet. Two of the proofs have corrections and notations in Whitman's hand. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Good-Bye my Fancy! (Good-bye my Fancy!) Whitman Archive ID: uva.00073 Title:  Death's Valley Date: about 1889 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 35.5 x 21.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  Content:  Whitman's correspondence indicates that the poem was written and sold to Harper's New Monthly Magazine in 1889, although it did not appear there until April 1892, after the poet's death. Whitman originally included the poem in his 1891 manuscript for the "Second Annex" "Good-Bye My Fancy," and Traubel grouped it in the cluster "Old Age Echoes," which he added to Leaves of Grass in 1897. The Harper's printing included an engraving, "The Valley of the Shadow of Death," by American painter George Inness, which appeared facing the poem. On the verso appear the notes "Death's Valley" (twice) and "Magazine/ April, 1892" in, possibly, Whitman executor Horace Traubel's hand. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Grand is the Seen Title:  "An Old Man's Recitatives" Date: about 1890 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 36.5 x 19.5 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Proofs of four poems pasted together and collected under the main handwritten title "An Old Man's Recitatives." The poems included are: "Ancient songs reciting" (published as "Old Chants" in 1891), "Grand is the seen" (first published in 1891), "Death dogs my steps" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891), and "For us two, reader dear," first published in 1891. A note in Whitman's hand in the right margin details failed attempts to publish this grouping in Scribner's. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00363 Title:  Grand is the seen Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12.5 x 20.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of the poem "Grand is the Seen," first published in 1891. On the verso is the end of a letter from R. Rooke Morgau. Repository: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress, 1842-1937 Whitman Archive ID: har.00001 Title:  Grand is the Seen Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is an unsigned draft of "Grand Is the Seen," a poem first published in 1891. An autographed photograph of Whitman, dated 1886, accompanies this manuscript. Repository: Manuscripts Department, Houghton Library, Harvard University Title:  "Old-Age Recitatives" Date: between 1890-1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 30.5 x 16 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  A galley proof of a group of six poems titled "Old-Age Recitatives." The poems included are: "Sail out for good, Eidolon yacht!" (first published in 1891), "My task" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891), "L. of G.'s Purport" (only the first two lines of the poem of the same title published in 1891), "Death dogs my steps" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891), "For us two, reader dear" (first published in 1891), and "Grand is the seen" (first published in 1891). On the verso is a note to printer. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old-Age Recitatives" Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 2 leaves Images: forthcoming Content:  Two proofs of a group of six poems titled "Old-Age Recitatives." The poems included are: "Sail Out for Good, Eidólon yacht!" (first published in 1891), "My task" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891), "L. of G.'s Purport" (only the first two lines of the poem of the same title published in 1891), "Death dogs my steps" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891), "For us two, reader dear" (first published in 1891), and "Grand is the seen" (first published in 1891). Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Great Are the Myths Whitman Archive ID: duk.00259 Title:  [Great are the myths] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript has a partially cancelled draft of the first lines of "Great Are the Myths." The poem "Great Are the Myths" was published first, untitled, in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass as the concluding poem, and again in the 1856 edition as "Poem of a Few Greatnesses." The poem went through many revisions through the different editions of Leaves of Grass, then was permanently dropped in 1881, except the two couplets that became the poem "Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night." The verso of the manuscript has cancelled prose beginning "The true friends of the Sabbath." Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: duk.00104 Title:  [poet of Materialism] Date: 1855 or before Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Manuscript expressing a belief in the continuing "amelioration" of the earth and humankind, written on a scrap of wallpaper. Although it is cast in prose, this is probably an early draft of a group of lines, expressing similar thoughts, in "Great Are the Myths," which was first published as the final, untitled, poem of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: duk.00032 Title:  [You lusty and graceflu youth!] Date: between 1850 and 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  An early version of a part of "Great Are the Myths," a poem published first, untitled, in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass as the concluding poem, and again in the 1856 edition as "Poem of a Few Greatnesses." The poem went through many revisions through the different editions of Leaves of Grass, then was permanently dropped in 1881, except the two couplets that became the poem "Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night." On the verso is partially cancelled verse beginning "Are the prostitutes nothing?" which is a draft of lines from the third poem in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, ultimately called "To Think of Time." Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library

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Had I the Choice Whitman Archive ID: yal.00073 Title:  Had I the Choice Date: about 1885 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  This manuscript is an early draft of the poem, "Had I the Choice," published as part of "Fancies at Navesink" in the magazine, Nineteenth Century, in August 1885. This manuscript is bound with others under the title, "Fancies at Navesink." Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Whitman Archive ID: yal.00040 Title:  Had I the Choice Date: about 1885 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  This is a draft of the poem, "Had I the Choice," published as part of "Fancies at Navesink" in the magazine, Nineteenth Century, in August 1885. The leaf is bound with others under the title, "Fancies at Navesink." Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Halcyon Days Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00043 Title:  [or, Halcyon Days] | Fancies at Navesink Date: around 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Draft for a title page beginning, "or Halycon days," with a note at the head "for title page to supplement of L of G not Nove. Boughs." The verso appears to have been a previous title page draft for "Fancies at Navesink." "Halcyon Days" first appeared in the New York Herald on 29 January 1888, and was reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy Annex" to Leaves of Grass (1888). Repository: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library Title:  "Halcyon Days" Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 4 leaves, 17.5 x 15 cm Images: forthcoming Content:  Four copies of a proof of "Halcyon Days," first published in 1888. No annotations on the sheets. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: tex.00072 Title:  Halcyon Days Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Heavily revised draft, approximately eleven lines, of "Halcyon Days," which was first published in the 29 January 1888 issue of the New York Herald. Written on the reverse of a letter from Fred W. Waggert, dated "4th June 1887." Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin

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Hand-Mirror, A Whitman Archive ID: uva.00225 Title:  A hand-mirror Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Originally titled "Looking-Glass" and numbered 82 and revised by overwriting to 83. The poem remained unchanged and with the same title since its first appearance in the 1860 edition. This poem was titled but ungrouped until 1881, when Whitman finally placed it in the cluster "By the Roadside." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Hands Round Whitman Archive ID: duk.00024 Title:  Hands Ro[und] Date: between 1865 and 1881 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A manuscript poem with a patriotic theme left unpublished in Whitman's lifetime. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: tex.00110 Title:  Starry Union Date: undated Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  On the front of the first leaf are three handwritten lines of a poem titled "Starry Union", the reverse is blank. The second leaf seems to have originally been attached to the first one, featuring more drafted lines of the poem with annotations and revisions. "Starry Union" was never published in Whitman's lifetime, though several different draft forms exist. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Whitman Archive ID: pml.00007 Title:  Starry Union Date: about 1876 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of a poem unpublished in Whitman's lifetime but existing in various draft states, including one with the same title in the T. E. Hanley Collection at the University of Texas and another, titled "Hands Ro[und]," in the Trent Collection, Duke University. The precise date of composition is unknown, but Whitman very possibly wrote this piece for the Centennial Celebration of 1876, as the date of the letter on the reverse ("Feb 11/76") suggests. Repository: The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

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Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour Whitman Archive ID: uva.00058 Title:  Hast never come to thee an hour Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 14 x 22 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  This manuscript contains two drafts of the poem "Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour," the first draft having been deleted with two horizontal and two diagonal pencil lines. The partly erased word "Interp[ellation?]" appears in the lower left corner. After further revision the poem appeared for the first time in the 1881 Leaves of Grass, in the cluster "By the Roadside." Since the poetry manuscript has been pasted onto a piece of cardboard, the verso is not visible. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Title:  "The Dalliance of the Eagles" Date: about 1880 Physical Description: 3 leaves Images: forthcoming Content:  Three proofs, two of which also have "Ah, little knows the Laborer"(later appearing in a revised form as the first three lines of "Song of the Exposition"), and one of which also contains a proof of the poem "Hast never come to thee an hour?" Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "The Dalliance of the Eagles" Date: about 1880 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 25.8 x 18.6 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Written in ink on a proof of "The Dalliance of the Eagles," "Ah, little knows the Laborer," "Hast never come to thee an hour?,"and "My Picture-Gallery," are 14 words of notations in Whitman's hand. The proof has been pasted to a heavy piece of paper, on the verso of which is "A Riddle Song," part of "Italian Music in Dakota," and a clipped headline reading "The Society Articles Save Labor. Lighten the Labor for Mother." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Here the Frailest Leaves of Me Whitman Archive ID: uva.00313 Title:  [Here the frailest leaves of me] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 15 x 9.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one leaf of white wove paper (15 x 9.5 cm), in medium-brown ink, with one revision in the same ink. Pinholes mostly at top and in center. The two sets of verses are divided by a short horizontal line. In 1860 the first set, with the addition of a new first line ("Here my last words, and the most baffling,") became section 44 of "Calamus"; the poem was permanently retitled "Here the Frailest Leaves of Me", and the new first line dropped, in 1867. The second set was revised to form section 38 of "Calamus" in 1860; in 1867 it was further revised and retitled "Fast Anchor'd, Eternal, O Love." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Hours continuing long Whitman Archive ID: duk.00282 Title:  Religious Canticles Date: about 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  On one side are notes regarding a projected group of religious poems and their significance to other Leaves of Grass poems. On the reverse is a partial draft of the 1860 poem "Calamus 9," which was dropped from subsequent editions of Leaves of Grass. This scrap has been attached by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with "Secrets.—Secreta." Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library

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Hush'd be the Camps To-day Whitman Archive ID: rut.00001 Title:  Hush'd be the camps to-day Date: about 1865 Physical Description: 4 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  Draft of "Hush'd Be the Camps To-day," first published in 1865, on four leaves. Three of the scraps are smaller and were formerly pasted to the larger leaf. Repository: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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I do not expect to see myself Whitman Archive ID: tex.00023 Title:  [I do not expect to see myself] Date: undated Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Lightly revised manuscript fragment of approximately 42 words, written with hanging indentation and expressing a confidence in future popular acceptance. Connection with Whitman's published work is uncertain. Christopher Morley suggests that it was written on a piece scissored from left-over stock of the green wrappers and end-papers of the 1855 Leaves. The date of this manuscript is unknown, though it seems likely that it is from the 1870s based on the handwriting. In addition, in the 1870s, Whitman repeatedly complained about how he was treated by American magazines. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin

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I Dream'd in a Dream Whitman Archive ID: uva.00315 Title:  [I dreamed in a dream of a] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 9.5 x 9 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one leaf of white wove paper cut down to 9.5 x 9 cm, in brown-black ink, with revisions in pencil. Pinholes at top and in center. Whitman numbered the leaf 13, in pencil, in the lower-left corner. The excised top portion of the leaf became the bottom section of page 2 of 1:3:11, the poem (eighth in the sequence "Live Oak, with Moss") beginning "Hours continuing long, sore/ and heavy-hearted..." In 1860 this poem was substantially revised to form section 34 of "Calamus"; in 1867 it was retitled "I Dreamed in a Dream." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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I Hear America Singing Whitman Archive ID: duk.00272 Title:  [(written for the voice)] Date: about 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Manuscript note apparently recording the poet's early idea for the poem first published as "Chants Democratic 20" in 1860, later as "I Hear America Singing." This scrap has been attached by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with "[And there a hunter's camp]," "[Poem of "(the Devil]," and "Poem of Sadness." Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00201 Title:  Mouth-Songs Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21.5 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  Originally numbered 54 and titled "Leaf.—". The title was next "Songs—always wanted" and then "Mouth-Songs." This poem became section 20 of "Chants Democratic" in 1860, with leaf 1 corresponding to verses 1-6 and leaf 2 ("The delicious singing of the/ mother...") to verses 8-10. In 1867 Whitman revised the first line and permanently retitled the poem "I Hear America Singing"; in 1881 it achieved its final position in the cluster "Inscriptions." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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In Paths Untrodden Whitman Archive ID: duk.00031 Title:  [And now I care not to] Date: about 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript is an early draft of a portion of the poem that became "In Paths Untrodden," which was published first in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. The verso contains a list of thirteen suggestions for titles or groups of poems, including "The States," "Prairies," "Prairie Spaces" and "Prairie Babes." "In Paths Untrodden" opens the "Calamus" group in all editions of Leaves of Grass, taking the title in 1867. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00244 Title:  Calamus—1st draft p. 341 [Long I was held] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 16 x 10 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript became section 1 of "Calamus" in 1860, and was retitled "In Paths Untrodden" in the 1867 Leaves of Grass. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Inscriptions Whitman Archive ID: uva.00320 Title:  Leaf [What place is besieged] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21.5 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one leaf of pink paper (21.5 x 13 cm), in black ink, with a fair copy of the poem at the bottom of the leaf and a deleted draft featuring heavy revisions in the same ink and in pencil at the top. This poem was originally numbered 68, and its title was "Leaflet—." In 1860 it became the second numbered verse paragraph of section 31 of "Calamus." In 1867 Whitman split up the two paragraphs and made them separate poems; these verses were moved to a position between the "Calamus" and a "Leaves of Grass" cluster and permanently retitled "What Place Is Besieged?" In 1881 the poem was transferred to the cluster "Inscriptions." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Interpolation Sounds Whitman Archive ID: loc.00200 Title:  [Funeral Sounds] Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Early draft of a poem that was first published as "Over and Through the Burial Chant" in 1888. It was later published with the title "Interpolation Sounds." The poem was written on the occassion of General Philip Sheridan's death in 1888. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: yal.00013 Title:  Funeral Interpolations Date: 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a signed draft of "Funeral Interpolations," a poem published first as "Over and Through the Burial Chant" in the New York Herald on August 12, 1888, on the occasion of General Philip K. Sheridan's death, and later as "Interpolation Sounds" in the 1891 edition of Good-Bye My Fancy. Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Whitman Archive ID: loc.00090 Title:  Interpolation Sounds Date: ca. 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28 x 21.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  An early draft of the poem "Interpolation Sounds" first published August 12, 1888 under the title "Over and Through the Burial Chant" and later published with the new title in 1891. Repository: Walt Whitman Collection, The Library of Congress Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00059 Title:  Interpolation Sounds Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Fair copy draft of the poem "Interpolation Sounds". This poem first appeared without a title in the New York Herald four days after Whitman's short prose tribute to General Philip K. Sheridan, a Union general during the Civil War. It was reprinted in "Good-Bye My Fancy" in 1891, with the additional note: "General Sheridan was buried at the Cathedral, Washington, D.C. August, 1888, with all the pomp, music and ceremonies of the Roman Catholic service." Repository: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library Whitman Archive ID: loc.00253 Title:  Over and through the burial chant Date: 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Clipped-out copy of "Over and Through the Burial Chant" from the August 12, 1888 issue of the New York Herald, with notations in Whitman's hand. The poem was later published as "Interpolation Sounds." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00014 Title:  [growing] | Poems Date: about 1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Five lines of the poem "I Saw in Louisiana a Live Oak Growing." This poem is part of the "Calamus" cluster, which Whitman began assembling in the summer of 1859. The reverse features a note by the poet to himself, describing the poems as "A Cluster of Poems, Sonnets expressing the thoughts, pictures, aspirations &c Fit to be perused during the days of the approach of Death." Repository: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00316 Title:  [I saw in Louisiana a] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 15 x 9.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On two leaves of white wove paper, both 15 x 9.5 cm, in black ink, with extensive revisions in the same ink, in light brown ink, and in pencil. Pinholes mostly at top and in center of both pages. Whitman numbered the pages 2 and 3 in pencil. This was originally the second section of the sequence "Live Oak, with Moss" (one of the deleted lines reads "I write/ these pieces, and name/ them after it [the Louisiana live-oak];"), with ornamental Roman numeral. It became section 20 of "Calamus" in 1860; the lines on the first manuscript page correspond to verses 1-7, and those on the second ("It is not needed to remind/ me...") to verses 8-13. The poem was retitled "I saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing" in 1867. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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I Saw Old General at Bay Whitman Archive ID: loc.00202 Title:  I Saw Old General at Bay Date: about 1865 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  Content:  A draft of "I Saw Old General at Bay," first published in 1865. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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I Sing the Body Electric Whitman Archive ID: duk.00299 Title:  [A poem in which is] Date: 1856 or before Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Notes for a poem about "a first-rate healthy Human Body," possibly related to "I Sing the Body Electric," which was first published as the fifth poem of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass and substantially revised (as "Poem of the Body") in 1856. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Title:  "[George Walker]" Date: between 1855-1856 Physical Description: handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  A notebook Whitman used for various purposes in the mid-1850s. Edward F. Grier, in his edition of Whitman's Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984. 6 vols), noted that the notebook contains lines and phrases that relate to several poems: "Song of the Broad-Axe," "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Starting from Paumanok," "A Song for Occupations," "By Blue Ontario's Shore," "Salut au Monde!," "To One Shortly to Die," and "A Woman Waits for Me." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: uva.00014 Title:  [How can there be immortality] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 4.5 x 14.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  These lines, appearing on a very small section of white laid paper cut and cropped irregularly, bear a strong resemblance to the (eventual) second verse paragraph in section 6 of "Starting from Paumanok," first published in 1860 as "Proto-Leaf." The fragmentary lines on the verso (beginning "Downward, buoyant, swif[t]"), represent a different version of a line incorporated in the pre-1855 notebook poem "Pictures" and of one inscribed in the 1854 notebook [I know a rich capitalist...], currently housed at the New York Public Library. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: duk.00034 Title:  [O Mother, did you think] Date: about 1856 Physical Description: 6 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  Content:  On four leaves, an early version of portions of the poem ultimately titled "This Compost," first printed under the title "Poem of Wonder at The Ressurection of The Wheat" in the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass. On the reverse sides of these leaves is a list of words regarding the physical body and connected in concept to "I Sing the Body Electric," a poem that first appeared as the fourth poem of the 1855 Leaves of Grass. With this list, Whitman was gathering material for the noteworthy final section, a paean to body parts, that he added to the poem in 1856. Glue residue shows that these leaves were formerly pasted to two other leaves, upon which is written a prose manuscript fragment regarding California Vigilance Committees. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library

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I Sit and Look Out Whitman Archive ID: uva.00205 Title:  Leaf [I sit and look out upon all] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21.5 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  Originally numbered 77 and then changed to 78. This became section 17 of the cluster "Leaves of Grass" in the 1860 Leaves. After taking different positions in both the 1867 and 1872, it took its final place in 1881 in the cluster "By the Roadside." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: duk.00274 Title:  Poem of Sadness Date: about 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Manuscript note probably recording the idea for the 1860 poem "Leaves of Grass 17," which was ultimately titled "I Sit and Look Out." This scrap has been attached by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with "[And there a hunter's camp]," "[(written for the voice)]," and "[Poem of "(the Devil]." Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library

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Italian Music in Dakota Title:  "Italian Music in Dakota" Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 2 leaves Images: forthcoming Content:  Two proof sheets of "Italian Music in Dakota," first published in 1881. One proof includes Whitman's printed name, the other does not. No editoral marks on the pages. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Italian Music in Dakota" Date: April 5, 1879 Content:  A copy of the April 5, 1879 issue of Progress containing Whitman's poem "Italian Music in Dakota" and his prose piece "Only Crossing the Delaware" (later published in Specimen Days as "Delaware River—Days and Nights." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: yal.00003 Title:  Italian Music in Dakota Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  This is a draft of "Italian Music in Dakota," first published in the 1881–82 edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Title:  "The Dalliance of the Eagles" Date: about 1880 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 25.8 x 18.6 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Written in ink on a proof of "The Dalliance of the Eagles," "Ah, little knows the Laborer," "Hast never come to thee an hour?,"and "My Picture-Gallery," are 14 words of notations in Whitman's hand. The proof has been pasted to a heavy piece of paper, on the verso of which is "A Riddle Song," part of "Italian Music in Dakota," and a clipped headline reading "The Society Articles Save Labor. Lighten the Labor for Mother." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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I was Looking a Long While Title:  "[(illeg.) Dick Hunt]" Date: 1856-1857 Physical Description: handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  |  31  |  32  |  33  |  34  |  35  |  36  |  37  |  38  |  39  |  40  |  41  |  42  |  43  |  44  |  45  |  46  |  47  |  48  |  49  |  50  |  51  |  52  |  53  |  54  |  55  |  56  |  57  |  58  |  59  |  60  |  61  |  62  |  63  |  64  |  65  |  66  |  67  |  68  |  69  |  70  |  71  |  72  |  73  |  74  |  75  |  76  |  77  |  78  |  79  |  80  |  81  |  82  |  83  |  84  |  85  |  86  |  87  |  88  |  89  |  90  |  91  |  92  |  93  |  94  |  95  |  96  |  97  |  98  |  99  |  100  |  101  |  102  |  103  |  104  |  105  |  106  |  107  |  108  |  109  |  110  |  111  |  112  |  113  |  114  |  115  |  116  |  117  |  118  |  119  |  120  |  121  |  122  |  123  |  124  |  125  |  126  |  127  |  128  |  129  |  130  |  131  |  132  |  133  |  134  |  135  |  136  |  137  |  138  |  139  |  140  |  141  |  142  |  143  |  144  |  145  |  146  |  147  |  148  |  149  |  150  |  151  |  152  |  153  |  154  |  155  |  156  |  157  |  158  |  159  |  160  |  161  |  162  |  163  |  164  |  165  |  166  |  167  |  168  |  169  |  170  |  171  |  172  |  173  |  174  |  175  Content:  A notebook Whitman used for various purposes in the mid-1850s. Edward F. Grier, in his edition of Whitman's Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984. 6 vols.), noted that the notebook contains lines and phrases that relate to several poems: "Song of the Broad-Axe," "To a Common Prostitute," "You Felons on Trial in Courts," "Starting from Paumanok," "Trickle Drops," "I Was Looking for a Long While," "Poem of Joys," "Facing West from California's Shores," "To the States," "A Song of the Rolling Earth," "On the Beach a Night Alone," "Full of Life Now," and "With Antecedents." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: uva.00200 Title:  Leaf [I was looking a long while] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Originally numbered 75; the pencil title "Leaflet" appears, deleted, in the upper-right corner. This poem became section 19 of "Chants Democratic" in 1860; in 1867 it was permanently retitled "I Was Looking a Long While," and in 1881 was assigned to the cluster "Autumn Rivulets." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Joy, Shipmate, Joy! Whitman Archive ID: loc.00298 Title:  Songs of Parting Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 18 leaves with handwritten annotations, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  Content:  Bound proofs of Whitman's cluster "Songs of Parting," containing 17 poems. Opposite a portrait of Whitman, the title page reads, "Songs of Parting, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof." These corrections were probably for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. The 17 poems included are: "As the Time Draws Nigh," "Ashes of Soldiers," "Years of the Modern," "Thoughts," "Song at Sunset," "My Legacy," "Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All," "Camps of Green," "Bathed in War's Perfume," "Now Finalé to the Shore," "As they Draw to a Close," "The Untold Want," "Portals," "These Carols," "To the Reader at Parting," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," and "So Long." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00323 Title:  Whispers of Heavenly Death Date: about 1870 Physical Description: 15 leaves, 20 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  Content:  Mostly mounted clippings of poems taken from Leaves of Grass, stitched and tied with ribbon by Walt Whitman. An autograph title page is followed by pages numbered in red pencil 469-484. One poem, "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," on p. 481 is written entirely in Walt Whitman's hand, and other corrections and additions are in Whitman's hand throughout. The poems included are: "Whispers of Heavenly Death," "Yet, Yet Ye Downcast Hours," "As Nearing Departure" (later published, in a different form, as "As the Time Draws Nigh"), "Darest Thou Now O Soul," "Of Him I Love Day and Night," "Quicksand Years That Whirl Me I Know Not Whither" (later published as "Quicksand Years"), "That Music Always Round Me," "As If a Phantom Caress'd Me," "O Living Always, Always Dying," "Here, Sailor!" (later published as "What Ship Puzzled at Sea"), "A Noiseless Patient Spider," "To One Shortly to Die," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," "This Day, O Soul," "What Place is Besieged?," "The Last Invocation," and "Pensive and Faltering." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Kosmos Whitman Archive ID: uva.00224 Title:  Kosmos Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21.5 x 12.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  Originally numbered 55 and revised by overwriting to 56. Leaf 1 corresponds to verses 1-6 of the 1860 version, and the lines on leaf 2 ("Who out of the theory of the/ earth,...") correspond to verses 7-10. Revised very little through the different editions, "Kosmos" appeared in 1872 and 1876 in a "Leaves of Grass" group in the supplement "Passage to India." In 1881 it was finally transferred to the cluster "Autumn Rivulets" within the main body of Leaves of Grass. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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L. of G.'s Purport Title:  "An Old Man's Recitatives" Date: about 1890 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 36.5 x 19.5 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Proofs of four poems pasted together and collected under the main handwritten title "An Old Man's Recitatives." The poems included are: "Ancient songs reciting" (published as "Old Chants" in 1891), "Grand is the seen" (first published in 1891), "Death dogs my steps" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891), and "For us two, reader dear," first published in 1891. A note in Whitman's hand in the right margin details failed attempts to publish this grouping in Scribner's. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00120 Title:  Death Dogs My Steps Date: about March 3, 1890 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12 x 19 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Draft of "Death Dogs My Steps" written in ink on the inside of a discarded and opened out envelope, addressed to Whitman from England, mailed in London February 21, 1890 and postmarked received in Camden March 3, 1890. The three lines later appeared as part of "L. of G.'s Purport," first published in 1891. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00364 Title:  L. of G.'s Purport Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of the first two lines of "L. of G.'s Purport," first published in 1891. Repository: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress, 1842-1937 Whitman Archive ID: loc.00219 Title:  My Task Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28 x 22 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Manuscripts of the following four poems, written neatly with slight corrections: "My task," "L of G's Purport," "Death dogs my steps," and "For us two, reader dear." All of the verses except "For us two, reader dear" were fused together and published as one poem entitled "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old-Age Recitatives" Date: between 1890-1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 30.5 x 16 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  A galley proof of a group of six poems titled "Old-Age Recitatives." The poems included are: "Sail out for good, Eidolon yacht!" (first published in 1891), "My task" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891), "L. of G.'s Purport" (only the first two lines of the poem of the same title published in 1891), "Death dogs my steps" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891), "For us two, reader dear" (first published in 1891), and "Grand is the seen" (first published in 1891). On the verso is a note to printer. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old-Age Recitatives" Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 28 x 21 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Proof pages of six poems collected under the general title "Old-Age Recitatives." The poems included are: "Old Chants" (first published in 1891), "On, On the Same,Ye Jocund Twain!" (first published in 1891), "Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht!" (first published in 1891), "L. of G.'s Purport" (only two lines of the twelve-line poem of the same title first published in 1891), "My task" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891), and "For us two, reader dear" (first published in 1891). At the top of the first page is a note to the printer in Whitman's hand. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old-Age Recitatives" Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 2 leaves Images: forthcoming Content:  Two proofs of a group of six poems titled "Old-Age Recitatives." The poems included are: "Sail Out for Good, Eidólon yacht!" (first published in 1891), "My task" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891), "L. of G.'s Purport" (only the first two lines of the poem of the same title published in 1891), "Death dogs my steps" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891), "For us two, reader dear" (first published in 1891), and "Grand is the seen" (first published in 1891). Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00366 Title:  This journey Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Two drafts of a poem entitled "This journey." The lines were later incorporated as lines 6, 7, 8, and 9 in "L. of G.'s Purport," first published in 1891. On the verso are notes about "Payments to Mrs. White" between 1871 and 1874. Repository: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress, 1842-1937 Whitman Archive ID: loc.00365 Title:  This Journey Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft entitled "This Journey" (the manuscript suggests Whitman was also considering the title "My Task"), later incorporated as lines 6, 7, 8, and 9 in "L. of G.'s Purport," first published in 1891. Also on the leaf is an undated, cancelled letter. Repository: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress, 1842-1937

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Last Invocation, The Whitman Archive ID: loc.00323 Title:  Whispers of Heavenly Death Date: about 1870 Physical Description: 15 leaves, 20 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  Content:  Mostly mounted clippings of poems taken from Leaves of Grass, stitched and tied with ribbon by Walt Whitman. An autograph title page is followed by pages numbered in red pencil 469-484. One poem, "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," on p. 481 is written entirely in Walt Whitman's hand, and other corrections and additions are in Whitman's hand throughout. The poems included are: "Whispers of Heavenly Death," "Yet, Yet Ye Downcast Hours," "As Nearing Departure" (later published, in a different form, as "As the Time Draws Nigh"), "Darest Thou Now O Soul," "Of Him I Love Day and Night," "Quicksand Years That Whirl Me I Know Not Whither" (later published as "Quicksand Years"), "That Music Always Round Me," "As If a Phantom Caress'd Me," "O Living Always, Always Dying," "Here, Sailor!" (later published as "What Ship Puzzled at Sea"), "A Noiseless Patient Spider," "To One Shortly to Die," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," "This Day, O Soul," "What Place is Besieged?," "The Last Invocation," and "Pensive and Faltering." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning Whitman Archive ID: yal.00044 Title:  [Last of ebb, and daylight waning] Date: about 1885 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  This is a draft of the poem, "Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning," published as part of "Fancies at Navesink" in the magazine, Nineteenth Century, in August 1885. This manuscript is bound with others under the title, "Fancies at Navesink." Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Whitman Archive ID: yal.00046 Title:  [Last of ebb, and daylight waning] Date: about 1885 Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  Content:  This is a draft on three leaves of the poem, "Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning," published as part of "Fancies at Navesink" in the magazine, Nineteenth Century, in August 1885. The manuscript has the cancelled title, "At the Mouth of the River." This manuscript is bound with others under the title, "Fancies at Navesink." Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Whitman Archive ID: yal.00042 Title:  [waning day] Date: about 1885 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a revised draft of poetic lines that may be an early version of "Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning," published as part of "Fancies at Navesink" in the magazine, Nineteenth Century, in August 1885. On the verso is part of a cancelled letter to Whitman. The leaf is bound with others under the title, "Fancies at Navesink." Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Laws for Creations Whitman Archive ID: uva.00195 Title:  American Laws Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 3 leaves, leaf 1 19.5 x 12.5 cm, leaves 2-3 21.5 x 12.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  Content:  A partial horizontal line at the top of the first leaf indicates that Whitman cut away the original title and number. Whitman numbered each leaf in pencil in the lower left corner. These pages were transformed into section 13 of "Chants Democratic" in the 1860 Leaves of Grass. In 1867 it was greatly shortened and transferred to the final "Leaves of Grass" cluster. In 1872 the poem was permanently retitled "Laws for Creations" Its final position was in the cluster "Autumn Rivulets". Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Leaf for Hand in Hand, A Whitman Archive ID: uva.00306 Title:  [A leaf for hand-in-hand] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 14.5 x 9 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one leaf of white wove paper (14.5 x 9 cm), in black ink, with revisions in pencil. Pinholes in center and at top. A blue-pencil number 3 appears in the upper right corner over an erased 9. With substantial additions and revisions this evolved into section 37 of "Calamus" in 1860; after further revision it became "A Leaf for Hand in Hand" in 1867. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Leaves of Grass Whitman Archive ID: duk.00053 Title:  Leaves of Grass Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 18 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  Content:  The handwritten Table of Contents of the 1881-1882 edition of Leaves of Grass with instructions to the printer. Also included is a proof of the title-page of the same edition, with Whitman's corrections. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: duk.00098 Title:  Leaves of Grass Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 270 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  |  31  |  32  |  33  |  34  |  35  |  36  |  37  |  38  |  39  |  40  |  41  |  42  |  43  |  44  |  45  |  46  |  47  |  48  |  49  |  50  |  51  |  52  |  53  |  54  |  55  |  56  |  57  |  58  |  59  |  60  |  61  |  62  |  63  |  64  |  65  |  66  |  67  |  68  |  69  |  70  |  71  |  72  |  73  |  74  |  75  |  76  |  77  |  78  |  79  |  80  |  81  |  82  |  83  |  84  |  85  |  86  |  87  |  88  |  89  |  90  |  91  |  92  |  93  |  94  |  95  |  96  |  97  |  98  |  99  |  100  |  101  |  102  |  103  |  104  |  105  |  106  |  107  |  108  |  109  |  110  |  111  |  112  |  113  |  114  |  115  |  116  |  117  |  118  |  119  |  120  |  121  |  122  |  123  |  124  |  125  |  126  |  127  |  128  |  129  |  130  |  131  |  132  |  133  |  134  |  135  |  136  |  137  |  138  |  139  |  140  |  141  |  142  |  143  |  144  |  145  |  146  |  147  |  148  |  149  |  150  |  151  |  152  |  153  |  154  |  155  |  156  |  157  |  158  |  159  |  160  |  161  |  162  |  163  |  164  |  165  |  166  |  167  |  168  |  169  |  170  |  171  |  172  |  173  |  174  |  175  |  176  |  177  |  178  |  179  |  180  |  181  |  182  |  183  |  184  |  185  |  186  |  187  |  188  |  189  |  190  |  191  |  192  |  193  |  194  |  195  |  196  |  197  |  198  |  199  |  200  |  201  |  202  |  203  |  204  |  205  |  206  |  207  |  208  |  209  |  210  |  211  |  212  |  213  |  214  |  215  |  216  |  217  |  218  |  219  |  220  |  221  |  222  |  223  |  224  |  225  |  226  |  227  |  228  |  229  |  230  |  231  |  232  |  233  |  234  |  235  |  236  |  237  |  238  |  239  |  240  |  241  |  242  |  243  |  244  |  245  |  246  |  247  |  248  |  249  |  250  |  251  |  252  |  253  |  254  |  255  |  256  |  257  |  258  |  259  |  260  |  261  |  262  |  263  |  264  |  265  |  266  |  267  |  268  |  269  Content:  Printer's copy for portions of the 1881-1882 edition of Leaves of Grass containing manuscript and printed pages with numerous corrections, additions, and instructions to the printer. A lock of Whitman's hair, enclosed in a wrapper, also appears with this collection. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Title:  Leaves of Grass Date: 1871 Physical Description: handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Plate proof of the 1871 edition of Leaves of Grass with some corrections in Whitman's hand. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  Leaves of Grass Date: 1871 Physical Description: handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Plate proof of the 1871 edition of Leaves of Grass with a few corrections in Whitman's hand. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: yal.00035 Title:  Leaves of Grass advertisements and table of contents Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 10 leaves, printed table of contents with handwriting View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  Content:  These manuscripts are proofs of the publisher's advertisement and the table of contents for the 1881–82 edition of Leaves of Grass, with corrections and deletions in Whitman's hand. Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00297 Title:  [In Poems] Date: 1850-1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 7.5 cm x 15.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Ink on blue paper. Pasted on bottom half of archival leaf. Verso has some notes for poem "[America, so young and so magnificent]." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: duk.00029 Title:  [Remembrances I plant American ground with] Date: undated Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A manuscript containing ideas which appear frequently in Leaves of Grass. On the verso is a list of rivers, lakes, and cities. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00015 Title:  The Blue Book Date: about 1860 Physical Description: 243 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  |  31  |  32  |  33  |  34  |  35  |  36  |  37  |  38  |  39  |  40  |  41  |  42  |  43  |  44  |  45  |  46  |  47  |  48  |  49  |  50  |  51  |  52  |  53  |  54  |  55  |  56  |  57  |  58  |  59  |  60  |  61  |  62  |  63  |  64  |  65  |  66  |  67  |  68  |  69  |  70  |  71  |  72  |  73  |  74  |  75  |  76  |  77  |  78  |  79  |  80  |  81  |  82  |  83  |  84  |  85  |  86  |  87  |  88  |  89  |  90  |  91  |  92  |  93  |  94  |  95  |  96  |  97  |  98  |  99  |  100  |  101  |  102  |  103  |  104  |  105  |  106  |  107  |  108  |  109  |  110  |  111  |  112  |  113  |  114  |  115  |  116  |  117  |  118  |  119  |  120  |  121  |  122  |  123  |  124  |  125  |  126  |  127  |  128  |  129  |  130  |  131  |  132  |  133  |  134  |  135  |  136  |  137  |  138  |  139  |  140  |  141  |  142  |  143  |  144  |  145  |  146  |  147  |  148  |  149  |  150  |  151  |  152  |  153  |  154  |  155  |  156  |  157  |  158  |  159  |  160  |  161  |  162  |  163  |  164  |  165  |  166  |  167  |  168  |  169  |  170  |  171  |  172  |  173  |  174  |  175  |  176  |  177  |  178  |  179  |  180  |  181  |  182  |  183  |  184  |  185  |  186  |  187  |  188  |  189  |  190  |  191  |  192  |  193  |  194  |  195  |  196  |  197  |  198  |  199  |  200  |  201  |  202  |  203  |  204  |  205  |  206  |  207  |  208  |  209  |  210  |  211  |  212  |  213  |  214  |  215  |  216  |  217  |  218  |  219  |  220  |  221  |  222  |  223  |  224  |  225  |  226  |  227  |  228  |  229  |  230  |  231  |  232  |  233  |  234  |  235  |  236  |  237  |  238  |  239  |  240  |  241  |  242  |  243  |  244  |  245  |  246  |  247  |  248  |  249  |  250  |  251  |  252  |  253  |  254  |  255  |  256  |  257  |  258  |  259  |  260  |  261  |  262  |  263  |  264  |  265  |  266  |  267  |  268  |  269  |  270  |  271  |  272  |  273  |  274  |  275  |  276  |  277  |  278  |  279  |  280  |  281  |  282  |  283  |  284  |  285  |  286  |  287  |  288  |  289  |  290  |  291  |  292  |  293  |  294  |  295  |  296  |  297  |  298  |  299  |  300  |  301  |  302  |  303  |  304  |  305  |  306  |  307  |  308  |  309  |  310  |  311  |  312  |  313  |  314  |  315  |  316  |  317  |  318  |  319  |  320  |  321  |  322  |  323  |  324  |  325  |  326  |  327  |  328  |  329  |  330  |  331  |  332  |  333  |  334  |  335  |  336  |  337  |  338  |  339  |  340  |  341  |  342  |  343  |  344  |  345  |  346  |  347  |  348  |  349  |  350  |  351  |  352  |  353  |  354  |  355  |  356  |  357  |  358  |  359  |  360  |  361  |  362  |  363  |  364  |  365  |  366  |  367  |  368  |  369  |  370  |  371  |  372  |  373  |  374  |  375  |  376  |  377  |  378  |  379  |  380  |  381  |  382  |  383  |  384  |  385  |  386  |  387  |  388  |  389  |  390  |  391  |  392  |  393  |  394  |  395  |  396  |  397  |  398  |  399  |  400  |  401  |  402  |  403  |  404  |  405  |  406  |  407  |  408  |  409  |  410  |  411  |  412  |  413  |  414  |  415  |  416  |  417  |  418  |  419  |  420  |  421  |  422  |  423  |  424  |  425  |  426  |  427  |  428  |  429  |  430  |  431  |  432  |  433  |  434  |  435  |  436  |  437  |  438  |  439  |  440  |  441  |  442  |  443  |  444  |  445  |  446  |  447  |  448  |  449  |  450  |  451  |  452  |  453  |  454  |  455  |  456  |  457  |  458  |  459  |  460  |  461  |  462  |  463  |  464  |  465  |  466  |  467  |  468  |  469  |  470  |  471  |  472  |  473  |  474  |  475  |  476  |  477  |  478  |  479  |  480  |  481  |  482  |  483  |  484  |  485  Content:  Of nearly as much significance as Whitman's copy of the 1855 Leaves is his copy of the Boston, 1860-61 edition, the famous "Blue Book." It is this volume, in blue paper wrappers, which was discovered in Whitman's desk by Secretary of the Interior James Harlan, leading to his dismissal from the Department on June 30, 1865. Documenting this event in Whitman's life in Washington, the Lion Collection also includes a group of seven letters and documents relating to his work in the Departments of the Interior and Treasury. Among these are Secretary Harlan's letter of dismissal, and a memorandum in Whitman's hand recording a conversation with W. T. Otto of the Interior Department about the finding of the "Blue Book" in Whitman's desk. The book itself, possibly the only known copy in contemporary wrappers, uncut, is heavily corrected and revised throughout in Whitman's hand, in preparation for later editions. It is another remarkable example of his lifelong habit of editing and rewriting his poems. The flyleaf is inscribed: Property of Horace L. Traubel. Received from Walt Whitman May 23d 1890 - W. saying: "You fellows value these curios more than I do. This will help you to see how the book grew, if that is anything. But I guess you would know how it grew if you never possessed the book. The book is a milepost . . . This gives a glimpse into the work shop . . ." Repository: The Oscar Lion Collection of Walt Whitman, The New York Public Library

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Life and Death Whitman Archive ID: loc.00213 Title:  Life and Death Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  A draft of "Life and Death," first published in 1888. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Life Whitman Archive ID: tex.00033 Title:  Life Date: 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft, lightly revised, of the poem "Life," which was first published in the New York Herald on April 15, 1888. On the verso appears the handwritten date: June 8. '88. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin

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Locust whirring they come in July Whitman Archive ID: tex.00005 Title:  [Armies & navies pass on the surface] | [Locust whirring they come in July] Date: probably 1850-1870 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript was probably composed in the 1850s or 1860s. On one side of the leaf are approximately five lines toward a poem about the effects of war that was never published in Whitman's lifetime. On the other side are two sentences or lines, one headed "Locust," and the other headed "Sunflower." The relationship of these notes to Whitman's published work is unknown. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin

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Mannahatta (I was asking) Whitman Archive ID: uva.00217 Title:  Mannahatta Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 5 leaves, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  Content:  Originally numbered 56 and revised by overwriting to 57; Whitman numbered each leaf in pencil in the lower-left corner from 1 to 5. The leaves correspond to various verses in the 1860 edition. In the 1872 Leaves of Grass the poem was transferred to a "Leaves of Grass" group, and in 1881 took its final position in the cluster "From Noon to Starry Night." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Mannahatta (My city's) Whitman Archive ID: uva.00217 Title:  Mannahatta Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 5 leaves, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  Content:  Originally numbered 56 and revised by overwriting to 57; Whitman numbered each leaf in pencil in the lower-left corner from 1 to 5. The leaves correspond to various verses in the 1860 edition. In the 1872 Leaves of Grass the poem was transferred to a "Leaves of Grass" group, and in 1881 took its final position in the cluster "From Noon to Starry Night." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown, A Whitman Archive ID: loc.00080 Title:  [Surgeons operating] Date: about 1865 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 16.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A clean, late draft of lines published in the poem "A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown," first published in 1865. On the verso are prose notes about various corps of Civil War soldiers. Repository: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress, 1842-1937 Whitman Archive ID: tex.00012 Title:  [The bivouac does not the voice of] | [hear outside the orders given] Date: about 1865 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one side, five partly cropped lines from a draft of the poem "A March in the Ranks Hard-Pressed, and the Road Unknown," first published in Drum-Taps in 1865. On the reverse side, two lines of verse, with revisions. The relation of these lines to Whitman's published poetry is unknown, though in concept and imagery they echo a passage from the prose volume Specimen Days, in which the poet writes that the war was not a quadrille in a ball-room. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin

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Mediums Whitman Archive ID: uva.00197 Title:  Mediums Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21.5 x 12.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  This manuscript draft became section 16 of "Chants Democratic" in 1860, with Leaf 1 corresponding to verses 1-6 and Leaf 2 ("They shall train themselves/ to go in public,...") to verses 7-11. In 1867 Whitman restored the title "Mediums"; in 1871, the poem was transferred to Passage to India, and in 1881 took its final position in the cluster "From Noon to Starry Night." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: duk.00042 Title:  Poem of Materials Date: about 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript contains notes for poetry, including phrases which appear in section 6 of the final version of"Starting from Paumanok" and in "Mediums." The verso is a prose fragment dealing with political independence. The published version of "Mediums," originally "Chants Democratic" No. 16 in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, later appeared as part of "Passage to India" and finally in the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. "Starting from Paumanok" was published first in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass as "Proto-Leaf." Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library

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Me Imperturbe Whitman Archive ID: uva.00199 Title:  Leaf [Me imperturbe!] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Originally numbered 73. This poem became section 18 of "Chants Democratic" in 1860; in 1867 it was permanently retitled "Me Imperturbe," and after various repositionings, was finally transferred to the cluster "Inscriptions" in 1881. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Memories Whitman Archive ID: loc.00215 Title:  Memories Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 20 x 16 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A nearly final draft of the poem "Memories," first published in 1888. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Messenger Leaves Whitman Archive ID: uva.00216 Title:  To You Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 9 x 12.5 pasted to 20 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Beneath the pasted-over section can be discerned a second title, also "To You," with the number 91 (mended from 90). In the 1860 Leaves of Grass Whitman divided the poems again, publishing them in reverse order under the same titles at the end of the cluster "Messenger Leaves." Section 1 was eventually published (1881) as one of the poems in the cluster "Inscriptions," but Whitman dropped section 2 from his published poems after an 1876 appearance in the supplement "Passage to India." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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My 71st Year Title:  "My 71st Year" Date: November, 1889 Physical Description: handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Two copies of the November, 1889 issue of The Century Magazine, (one full, one partial) which included Whitman's poem "My 71st Year." There are a few small notes, probably in Whitman's hand, which read "Nov 1889" and "Mark Twain" (Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" is also serialized in this issue). Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "My 71st Year" Date: about 1889 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 18.75 x 20.25 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  A proof sheet printed on the verso of a page titled "Principles of the Republican and Democratic Parties" with multiple corrections and notations in Whitman's hand. "My 71st Year" was first published in 1889. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "My 71st Year" Date: about 1889 Physical Description: 4 leaves, 11.5 x 15 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Four proof sheets of "My 71st Year" noting the same revisions (though the handwriting varies). Three also contain a note at the bottom reading "Century Nov. '89" and another has a note by Traubel reading "see notes, Oct. 31, 1889." "My 71st Year" was first published in 1889. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: tex.00036 Title:  MY 71st YEAR Date: about 1883 Physical Description: 1 leaf, proof with revisions View Images:  1  Content:  Corrected proof of "My 71st Year," which appeared in the November 1889 issue of Century. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin

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My Canary Bird Whitman Archive ID: unc.00004 Title:  My Canary Bird Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  This is a manuscript draft of the poem, "My Canary Bird," which was first published in the New York Herald on March 2, 1888. Repository: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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My Legacy Whitman Archive ID: loc.00298 Title:  Songs of Parting Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 18 leaves with handwritten annotations, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  Content:  Bound proofs of Whitman's cluster "Songs of Parting," containing 17 poems. Opposite a portrait of Whitman, the title page reads, "Songs of Parting, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof." These corrections were probably for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. The 17 poems included are: "As the Time Draws Nigh," "Ashes of Soldiers," "Years of the Modern," "Thoughts," "Song at Sunset," "My Legacy," "Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All," "Camps of Green," "Bathed in War's Perfume," "Now Finalé to the Shore," "As they Draw to a Close," "The Untold Want," "Portals," "These Carols," "To the Reader at Parting," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," and "So Long." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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My Picture-Gallery Whitman Archive ID: upa.00006 Title:  [See there is Epicurus] Date: about 1857 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  This manuscript includes three lines of poetry on a trimmed sheet of paper. This appears to be one of a group of manuscripts related to the poem, unpublished in Whitman's lifetime, with the manuscript title, "Pictures." Whitman used lines from "Pictures" for the 1881 poem, "My Picture-Gallery." Whitman Archive ID: uva.00010 Title:  [The circus boy is riding in the] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 10.5 x 14 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The verso lines (beginning with the individually deleted line "O Walt Whitman, show us some pictures!" and continuing "America, always Pictorial!") represent a later draft of the beginning of the poem "Pictures" than the most complete extant version, which is contained in the pre-1855 "Pictures" notebook currently housed at Yale University. Critics have dated the lines to around 1880, when Whitman was working on a short version of "Pictures" both for magazine publication and for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass, where it was published as "My Picture-Gallery." But Whitman's early style of inscription in this draft, along with the line "It is round—it has room for America, north and south" and his use of his own name in the deleted first line, all suggest that Whitman may have inscribed this draft around the same time that he was working on the new 1856 "Poem of Salutations" (eventually "Salut au Monde!"). This draft also suggests that at one point he may have considered linking what would become "Poem of Salutations" and the formally and thematically similar "Pictures" more directly. The lines on the recto, divided by a horizontal line, refer to images of a circus boy on a fleet horse and of watching those on a shore disappear. The relationship between either of these lines and Whitman's published works is unclear. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00061 Title:  My picture gallery Date: between 1850 and 1880 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 10 x 15.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Originally titled "Pictures," this manuscript is a revision of the first four verses of a draft poem by that name, inscribed by Whitman in a twenty-nine page notebook before the first edition of Leaves of Grass appeared in 1855. The notes "? for children" and "extend this?" appear in the upper left corner. The final verse appears in the upper right corner. After further revision Whitman published these verses in the October 30, 1880 issue of The American under the title "My Picture-Gallery," after which he placed it in the new cluster "Autumn Rivulets" in the 1881 edition. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: tex.00042 Title:  Pictures Date: about 1865 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Poetry manuscript titled "Pictures," approximately six lines, heavily revised. The first few lines of this manuscript appeared, further revised, in "The Runner," first published in the 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass. The middle section of the manuscript is possibly related to "Song of the Banner at Daybreak," which was first published in 1865 in Drum-Taps. A different version of last two lines of the manuscript appear in another poetry draft, also titled "Pictures," that Whitman wrote in a notebook now in Yale University's Beinecke Library. The first several lines of the notebook draft were revised and published as "My Picture-Gallery" in The American in October 1880. The verso of the leaf has about five lines of handwriting beginning with "Lilac Times." Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Title:  "The Dalliance of the Eagles" Date: about 1880 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 25.8 x 18.6 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Written in ink on a proof of "The Dalliance of the Eagles," "Ah, little knows the Laborer," "Hast never come to thee an hour?,"and "My Picture-Gallery," are 14 words of notations in Whitman's hand. The proof has been pasted to a heavy piece of paper, on the verso of which is "A Riddle Song," part of "Italian Music in Dakota," and a clipped headline reading "The Society Articles Save Labor. Lighten the Labor for Mother." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Mystic Trumpeter, The Whitman Archive ID: uva.00098 Title:  [Hark! some wild trumpeter] Date: about 1872 Physical Description: 9 leaves, 25 x 19.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  Content:  "The Mystic Trumpeter" was first published in the February 1872 issue of The Kansas Magazine, after which Whitman published it in the 1872 book As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free, in the 1876 Two Rivulets, and in the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. There and in later editions the poem was included in "From Noon to Starry Night." Other drafts of the poem are housed in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection at the Library of Congress, the Trent Memorial Collection at Duke University, and the T.E. Hanley Collection at the University of Texas. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: loc.00221 Title:  [Hark! some wild trumpeter —] Date: between 1871-1872 Physical Description: 21 leaves, largest 37.5 x 20.5 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Held together loosely by a cover onto which a scrap of paper was pasted as label, inscribed by Walt Whitman: "Hark! some wild trumpeter —." On verso of cover: "Advertising book of the Daily Freeman." At head in Whitman's hand: "Original rough draught and Memoranda of Mystic Trumpeter." Three pages of memoranda consist of trial lines and lists of words to be used in the poem. The first page is signed by Whitman. Mostly writen in ink on versos of Department of Justice stationery. Many corrections in pencil, indelible pencil, or red ink. "The Mystic Trumpeter" was first published in 1872. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: tex.00081 Title:  [Now, trumpeter] Date: about 1872 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Nine draft lines, uncorrected, of section 8 of "The Mystic Trumpeter," a poem first published in The Kansas Magazine in February 1872. The verso features references to the poems "From Noon to Starry Night" and "The Mystic Trumpeter," as well as to a "vol. II." Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Whitman Archive ID: duk.00045 Title:  [Theme for piece] Date: about 1869 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  An outline for a poem on various types of music, potentially related to "Proud Music of the Storm" and/or "The Mystic Trumpeter." The poem "The Mystic Trumpeter" was first published in The Kansas Magazine of February 1872. "Proud Music of the Storm" was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in February, 1869. The verso contains cancelled notes about a stanza to describe a triumphal instrumental and vocal chorus corresponding to that of man triumphing over temptation and weakness. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Title:  "The mystic Trumpeter" Date: January 19, 1873 Content:  A copy of the Budapest newspaper Fovarosi Lapok of January 19, 1873 containing Whitman's poem "The Mystic Trumpeter" (in translation) and an interview by Liptay Pal titled "Egy amerikai kolto" (translated: "An American Poet"). Also included is a translation of the interview into English done by John Gross, General Information Department, Detroit Public Library. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "The mystic Trumpeter" Date: January 19, 1873 Physical Description: handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  A copy of the Budapest newspaper Fovarosi Lapok of January 19, 1873 containing Whitman's poem "The Mystic Trumpeter" in Hungarian and an interview with the poet by Liptay Pal. At the top, written in pencil, are notes in Whitman's hand. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Native Moments Whitman Archive ID: uva.00182 Title:  [Now the hour has come upon me] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, leaf 1 18.5 x 16 cm, leaf 2 11 x 16 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  This poem, numbered 82 in pencil, became main section 8 of "Enfans d'Adam" in 1860, and was permanently retitled within the group "Native Moments" in 1867. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Nay, Tell Me Not To-day the Publish'd Shame Whitman Archive ID: loc.00093 Title:  Nay, Tell Me Not To-Day The Publish'd Shame Date: ca. 1873 Physical Description: 4 leaves, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  Content:  Trial lines and rough draft of the first section of the poem "Nay, Tell Me Not To-Day the Publish'd Shame" first published in the New York Daily Graphic March 5, 1873. Repository: Charles N. Elliot Collection, The Library of Congress Whitman Archive ID: loc.00222 Title:  Nay tell me not to-day the publish'd shame Date: about 1878 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 14 x 16 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Clipping from the New York Daily Graphic of 5 March 1873, with handwritten corrections. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Night on the Prairies Whitman Archive ID: tex.00025 Title:  [Idea of a Poem] Date: undated Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Notes, approximately 40 words, toward a poem of "celebration of the superiority of the night," perhaps related to the poem eventally titled "Night on the Prairies," first published in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass as No. 15 in the "Leaves of Grass" cluster. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Whitman Archive ID: uva.00203 Title:  Night on the Prairies Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 3 leaves, 20 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  Content:  Whitman cut off and flipped over the top section of the first leaf, gluing it to the rest of the leaf, in order to transform the original first line into the title. (The current verso of the top section still bears, undeleted, the first line "Night on the prairies[,]" along with the title "Leaf.—" and the number 73, originally 72). Whitman deleted the pencil numbers 16, 17, and 18 in the lower-left corner of the leaves, substituting the numbers 1 through 3. This poem became section 15 of the cluster "Leaves of Grass" in 1860. In 1867 Whitman restored the title "Night on the Prairies" and revised the poem, transferring it to the "Leaves of Grass" group. After other repositionings it achieved its current place in the cluster "Whispers of Heavenly Death" in 1881. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Noiseless Patient Spider, A Whitman Archive ID: loc.00323 Title:  Whispers of Heavenly Death Date: about 1870 Physical Description: 15 leaves, 20 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  Content:  Mostly mounted clippings of poems taken from Leaves of Grass, stitched and tied with ribbon by Walt Whitman. An autograph title page is followed by pages numbered in red pencil 469-484. One poem, "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," on p. 481 is written entirely in Walt Whitman's hand, and other corrections and additions are in Whitman's hand throughout. The poems included are: "Whispers of Heavenly Death," "Yet, Yet Ye Downcast Hours," "As Nearing Departure" (later published, in a different form, as "As the Time Draws Nigh"), "Darest Thou Now O Soul," "Of Him I Love Day and Night," "Quicksand Years That Whirl Me I Know Not Whither" (later published as "Quicksand Years"), "That Music Always Round Me," "As If a Phantom Caress'd Me," "O Living Always, Always Dying," "Here, Sailor!" (later published as "What Ship Puzzled at Sea"), "A Noiseless Patient Spider," "To One Shortly to Die," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," "This Day, O Soul," "What Place is Besieged?," "The Last Invocation," and "Pensive and Faltering." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Not Heat Flames up and Consumes Whitman Archive ID: uva.00310 Title:  Calamus-Leaves Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 15 x 9 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On white wove leaf, 15 x 9 cm, in black ink, with the title "Live Oak, with Moss" stricken out and "Calamus-Leaves" added in light brown ink, and with one small revision in blue pencil. Whitman numbered this page 1 in pencil. The first section of the original sequence "Live Oak, with Moss," this became section 14 of "Calamus" in 1860 and was permanently retitled "Not Heat Flames up and Consumes" in the 1867 Leaves. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone Whitman Archive ID: loc.00223 Title:  [Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone] Date: May 2, 1887 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A late draft of "Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone" first published in 1887, with Whitman's signature at the bottom and "Camden NJ" and the date, May 2, 1887, written at the top. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00224 Title:  [Not meagre latent boughs alone] Date: 1887 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 10 x 15 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Trial lines for "Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone," first published in 1887. Written at top is "Camden" and the date, April 28, 1887. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone" Date: about 1887 Physical Description: 1 leaf Images: forthcoming Content:  A proof sheet of "Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone," first published in 1887. No annotations on the sheet. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "November Boughs" Date: 1887 Physical Description: handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Clipping from a newspaper of four Whitman poems: "You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me," "'Going Somewhere,'" "After the Supper and Talk," and "Not Meagre Latent Boughs Alone." At the top is the title "November Boughs." At the bottom of the clipping is written, in Whitman's hand, "1887." The poems were published first in Lippincott's Magazine, November, 1887. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "November Boughs" Date: about 1887 Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Three proofs of a collection of four poems ("You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me," "'Going Somewhere,'" "After the Supper and Talk," and "Not Meagre Latent Boughs Alone") under the general title "November Boughs." The first is made by pasting together proofs of each poem in the order desired; the other two have all four poems printed on one sheet. Two of the proofs have corrections and notations in Whitman's hand. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Not My Enemies Ever Invade Me Title:  "Not My Enemies Ever Invade Me" Date: about 1865 Physical Description: 1 leaf Images: forthcoming Content:  Proof sheet of "Not My Enemies Ever Invade Me," first published in 1865-1866. No annotations on the sheet. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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November Boughs Title:  November Boughs Date: about 1888 Physical Description: about 41 leaves, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Seventy-nine pages of galley proofs of November Boughs, first published in 1888, with numerous corrections. Also included are a title page and two different title page proofs. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "November Boughs" Date: November, 1887 Content:  A copy of the November, 1887 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, which includes Whitman's poems "You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me," "'Going Somewhere,'" After the Supper and Talk, and "Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone" under the general heading "November Boughs" on pages 722-723. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "November Boughs" Date: 1887 Physical Description: handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Clipping from a newspaper of four Whitman poems: "You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me," "'Going Somewhere,'" "After the Supper and Talk," and "Not Meagre Latent Boughs Alone." At the top is the title "November Boughs." At the bottom of the clipping is written, in Whitman's hand, "1887." The poems were published first in Lippincott's Magazine, November, 1887. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "November Boughs" Date: about 1887 Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Three proofs of a collection of four poems ("You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me," "'Going Somewhere,'" "After the Supper and Talk," and "Not Meagre Latent Boughs Alone") under the general title "November Boughs." The first is made by pasting together proofs of each poem in the order desired; the other two have all four poems printed on one sheet. Two of the proofs have corrections and notations in Whitman's hand. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Now Final to the Shore (Poem) Whitman Archive ID: loc.00298 Title:  Songs of Parting Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 18 leaves with handwritten annotations, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  Content:  Bound proofs of Whitman's cluster "Songs of Parting," containing 17 poems. Opposite a portrait of Whitman, the title page reads, "Songs of Parting, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof." These corrections were probably for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. The 17 poems included are: "As the Time Draws Nigh," "Ashes of Soldiers," "Years of the Modern," "Thoughts," "Song at Sunset," "My Legacy," "Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All," "Camps of Green," "Bathed in War's Perfume," "Now Finalé to the Shore," "As they Draw to a Close," "The Untold Want," "Portals," "These Carols," "To the Reader at Parting," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," and "So Long." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Now Precedent Songs, Farewell Whitman Archive ID: tex.00092 Title:  Now Precedent Songs, Farewell, Date: undated Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  A handwritten draft of the poem "Now Precedent Songs, Farewell," which first appeared in the 1891–92 edition of Leaves of Grass, with revisions. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin

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O Captain! My Captain! Whitman Archive ID: loc.00125 Title:  My Captain Date: about 1865 Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  Content:  Draft of the poem that would be published as "O Captain! My Captain!" in 1865, titled here "My Captain." On the verso of one page is a portion of "A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown" with a line through it. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: jhu.00001 Title:  O Captain! My Captain! Date: April 30, 1890 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A handwritten version of "O Captain! My Captain!" presumably re-penned by request and presented to well-known doctor and author S. Weir Mitchell by Whitman on April 30, 1890. The poem was, in turn, given to Daniel Coit Gilman in 1894, and the library holds the correspondence between Gilman and Mitchell discussing this exchange. Repository: Special Collections, The Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Sheridan Libraries, The Johns Hopkins University Whitman Archive ID: loc.00091 Title:  O Captain! My Captain! Date: ca. 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Handwritten notes and corrections on a printed copy of the poem "O Captain! My Captain!" first published November 4, 1865. On the verso is a small letter from Whitman to the publishers of the Riverside Literature Series concerning the corrections to be made to this printed version of the poem. Repository: Walt Whitman Collection, The Library of Congress Whitman Archive ID: pml.00002 Title:  O Captain! My Captain! Date: 27 April 1890 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  "O Captain! My Captain!" was written in response to the death of Abraham Lincoln and published first in 1865. This manuscript was written out by Whitman for Dr. S. Weir Mitchell (a prominent author and doctor) at the request of Horace Howard Furness, for the amount of one-hundred dollars. A note on the back of the manuscript in Mitchell's hand says, "To give Walt a little money I offered for a gentleman 100$ for an autograph copy of My Captain—I pin it to Furness note April 1890." This manuscript differs slightly from the first printing, but agrees with that in Leaves of Grass, 1881, with one exception: In the next to the last line, Whitman has probably mistakenly written "dead" for "deck." Repository: The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

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Of Him I Love Day and Night Whitman Archive ID: uva.00325 Title:  Poemet Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  On two pink leaves (21 x 13 cm), in black ink, with revisions in the same ink and in light ink. Pinholes in center, at top, and in top-left corner. This poem was originally titled "Leaf" and apparently numbered 78; Whitman inscribed its new title, "Poemet," in light ink. It became section 17 of "Calamus" in 1860, with the lines on the first leaf corresponding to verses 1-7 and those on the second ("And what I dreamed I will/ henceforth tell...") to verses 8-13 of the first published version. Retitled "Of Him I Love Day and Night" in 1867, it was transferred to the "Whispers of Heavenly Death" cluster in Passage to India in 1871. In 1881 Whitman incorporated it, with the rest of the cluster, in the main body of Leaves. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: loc.00323 Title:  Whispers of Heavenly Death Date: about 1870 Physical Description: 15 leaves, 20 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  Content:  Mostly mounted clippings of poems taken from Leaves of Grass, stitched and tied with ribbon by Walt Whitman. An autograph title page is followed by pages numbered in red pencil 469-484. One poem, "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," on p. 481 is written entirely in Walt Whitman's hand, and other corrections and additions are in Whitman's hand throughout. The poems included are: "Whispers of Heavenly Death," "Yet, Yet Ye Downcast Hours," "As Nearing Departure" (later published, in a different form, as "As the Time Draws Nigh"), "Darest Thou Now O Soul," "Of Him I Love Day and Night," "Quicksand Years That Whirl Me I Know Not Whither" (later published as "Quicksand Years"), "That Music Always Round Me," "As If a Phantom Caress'd Me," "O Living Always, Always Dying," "Here, Sailor!" (later published as "What Ship Puzzled at Sea"), "A Noiseless Patient Spider," "To One Shortly to Die," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," "This Day, O Soul," "What Place is Besieged?," "The Last Invocation," and "Pensive and Faltering." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Of That Blithe Throat of Thine Whitman Archive ID: loc.00226 Title:  Of that blithe throat of thine Date: about 1884 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28 x 22 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Signed, late draft of "Of That Blithe Throat of Thine" which was published first in January, 1885. On the verso is a letter from Folger McKinney to Whitman dated June 10, 1884. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Of That Blithe Throat of Thine" Date: January, 1885 Content:  A copy of part of Harper's Monthly from January, 1885 with Whitman's poem "Of That Blithe Throat of Thine." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Of That Blithe Throat of Thine" Date: between 1884-1888 Physical Description: 9 leaves, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Nine varied copies of proof sheets, five with autograph corrections, representing different stages of the printing, including two final proofs (one with a printed signature, one without). Whitman has also written instructions to the printer on one sheet. "Of That Blithe Throat of Thine" was published first in January, 1885. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances Whitman Archive ID: uva.00322 Title:  [Of the doubts] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21.5 x 12 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  On two light blue Williamsburgh tax blanks (21.5 x 12 cm), in light brown ink, with minor revisions. A few pinholes at the head and in the center. A blue pencil question mark appears to the left of the first line on the second form. The lines on the first leaf became verses 1-9 of section 7 of "Calamus" in 1860, and the second leaf's lines ("To me all these, and the/ like of these,..."] became verses 10-16. Retitled "Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances" in 1867. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Old Age's Lambent Peaks Title:  "Old Age's Lambent Peaks" Date: September, 1888 Content:  Clipped copy of "Old Age's Lambent Peaks" from the September, 1888 issue of The Century Magazine. Also included are thin clippings of the magazine's header and its listing of Whitman's poem in the table of contents. No annotations on the sheets. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old Age's Lambent Peaks" Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf Images: forthcoming Content:  A proof of "Old Age's Lambent Peaks," first published in 1888, with no annotations on the sheet. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old Age's Lambent Peaks" Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 34.5 x 15 cm Images: forthcoming Content:  Two copies of a proof sheet with three poems: "Old Age's Lambent Peaks," "A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine," "To Get the Final Lilt of Songs," all published first in 1888. No annotations on the sheets. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old Age's Lambent Peaks" Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 33 x 15 cm; envelope 10.5 x 13 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  An edited proof sheet with three poems: "Old Age's Lambent Peaks," "A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine," "To Get the Final Lilt of Songs," all published first in 1888. In addition to corrections, Whitman has written a note to the printer at the top of the page. Also included is an envelope with "printer's proofs, short poems, Walt Whitman, 1888, (autographic)" written on it. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: uva.00164 Title:  Old Age's Lambent Peaks Date: 1880s Physical Description: 1 leaf, 25 cm x 20.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript contains a draft of a poem first printed in the Century, September, 1888 entitled "Old Age's Lambent Peaks". A note in the top margin states: "sent to Century accepted—paid" indicating the draft was likely completed around the time of publication. Thee poem was collected into reprints of Leaves of Grass in the Annex of the 1884-88 editions and in the Birthday edition of 1889. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Title:  Sands at Seventy Date: about 1888 Physical Description: about 10 leaves, 28.5 x 19.7 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Proof of Sands at Seventy with some notes in Whitman's hand and in another, unidentified hand. The notes mostly regard pagination and the insertion of the poem "Old Age's Lambent Peaks." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's Whitman Archive ID: bos.00001 Title:  Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's Date: about 1890 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a proof of "Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's," first published in 1890, with corrections and annotations in Whitman's hand. Repository: From the The Alice and Rollo G. Silver Collection in the Special Collections at Boston University Title:  "Old Age's Ship and crafty Death" Date: between 1888-1890 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 25.5 x 22.5, 24 x 15 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  An early draft written in ink, with a correction in blue pencil, of "Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's," first published in 1890. The draft has the underlined title "Old Age's Ship and crafty Death" half way down the page. One page is written on the back an opened envelope addressed to Whitman and postmarked Scarborough, December 20, 1888. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's" Date: February, 1890 Content:  Four pages of the February, 1890 issue of Century containing Whitman's poem "Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's" Date: between 1890-1891 Physical Description: 5 leaves, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Five corrected proofs of "Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's" with notations in Whitman's hand. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Old Chants Whitman Archive ID: duk.00188 Title:  [The Nibelungen] Date:  Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  The term "Nibelungen" appears in a poem first published in the New York Truth, March 19, 1891 entitled "Old Chants." The poem is one of the thiry-one poems included in "Second Annex--Good-Bye My Fancy," 1891-2. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Title:  "An Old Man's Recitatives" Date: about 1890 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 36.5 x 19.5 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Proofs of four poems pasted together and collected under the main handwritten title "An Old Man's Recitatives." The poems included are: "Ancient songs reciting" (published as "Old Chants" in 1891), "Grand is the seen" (first published in 1891), "Death dogs my steps" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891), and "For us two, reader dear," first published in 1891. A note in Whitman's hand in the right margin details failed attempts to publish this grouping in Scribner's. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old-Age Recitatives" Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 28 x 21 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Proof pages of six poems collected under the general title "Old-Age Recitatives." The poems included are: "Old Chants" (first published in 1891), "On, On the Same,Ye Jocund Twain!" (first published in 1891), "Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht!" (first published in 1891), "L. of G.'s Purport" (only two lines of the twelve-line poem of the same title first published in 1891), "My task" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891), and "For us two, reader dear" (first published in 1891). At the top of the first page is a note to the printer in Whitman's hand. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old Chants" Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf Images: forthcoming Content:  Proof sheet of "Old Chants," first published in 1891. No annotations on the sheet. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old Chants" Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  A draft of the first five lines of the poem "Old Chants," first published in 1891. The draft shows that Whitman also considered the titles "An Ancient Ballad Reciting" and "An Ancient Song Reciting. The verso is blank." Repository: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress, 1842-1937 Whitman Archive ID: tem.00002 Title:  Old Chants Date: ca. 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 36.3 x 21.4 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Included with the proofs of "Good-Bye My Fancy" (MSS. 2518 above) are thirty-three lines of "Old Chants," made of fragments pasted together, with corrections in Whitman's hand. Also included on the page is a note by Horace Traubel reading "Given by Walt Whitman to me and then by me to Will Innes, 1905." On verso: "Henry Curtis printer, Cor: Bridge Ave. & 2d, Camden." Repository: Rare Books and Manuscripts, Special Collections, Temple University Libraries, Temple University

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Old Man's Thought of School, The Whitman Archive ID: loc.00237 Title:  [An old man's thought of school] Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 44.5 x 20.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  Two composite leaves made from pasting together several scraps of paper containing a draft of "An Old Man's Thought of School," a poem Whitman recited in person at the inauguration of the Cooper Public School in Camden, New Jersey, in 1874. On the versos are parts of letters (to Whitman) and notes in Whitman's hand. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Old Salt Kossabone Whitman Archive ID: loc.00068 Title:  Old Salt Kossabone Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28 x 21.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Late draft of "Old Salt Kossabone," first published in 1888, with a note on the verso in another hand (Ellen Terry). Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Old War-Dreams Whitman Archive ID: loc.00238 Title:  Old War-Dreams Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Proof of "Old War-Dreams" with note at bottom in Whitman's hand: "Walt Whitman's New Book." This poem was published first, in a different form, as "In Clouds Descending, in Midnight Sleep" in 1865-1866. In 1871 it appeared under the title "In Midnight Sleep." The title "Old War-Dreams" was first applied in 1881. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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O Living Always, Always Dying Whitman Archive ID: uva.00319 Title:  Leaf [O dying! Always dying!] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21.5 x 12 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one light blue Williamsburgh tax blank (21.5 x 12 cm), in dark brown ink, with revisions in fine pen and pencil. Whitman penciled in a question mark, in parentheses, next to the title. With the addition of the new first line "O love!" this became section 27 of "Calamus" in 1860. In the 1867 Leaves it was retitled "O Living Always—Always Dying!" Whitman next transferred it to the "Passage to India" supplement bound in with Leaves, where it reappeared in 1876; in the 1881 Leaves Whitman permanently added it to the cluster "Whispers of Heavenly Death." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: loc.00323 Title:  Whispers of Heavenly Death Date: about 1870 Physical Description: 15 leaves, 20 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  Content:  Mostly mounted clippings of poems taken from Leaves of Grass, stitched and tied with ribbon by Walt Whitman. An autograph title page is followed by pages numbered in red pencil 469-484. One poem, "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," on p. 481 is written entirely in Walt Whitman's hand, and other corrections and additions are in Whitman's hand throughout. The poems included are: "Whispers of Heavenly Death," "Yet, Yet Ye Downcast Hours," "As Nearing Departure" (later published, in a different form, as "As the Time Draws Nigh"), "Darest Thou Now O Soul," "Of Him I Love Day and Night," "Quicksand Years That Whirl Me I Know Not Whither" (later published as "Quicksand Years"), "That Music Always Round Me," "As If a Phantom Caress'd Me," "O Living Always, Always Dying," "Here, Sailor!" (later published as "What Ship Puzzled at Sea"), "A Noiseless Patient Spider," "To One Shortly to Die," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," "This Day, O Soul," "What Place is Besieged?," "The Last Invocation," and "Pensive and Faltering." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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O Magnet-South Whitman Archive ID: hun.00001 Title:  Longings for Home Date: ca. 1860 Physical Description: 5 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  Content:  This is a draft of "Longings For Home," a poem first published in 1860 and later revised and retitled "O Magnet-South." Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

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On, on the Same, ye Jocund Twain! Whitman Archive ID: loc.00069 Title:  Go forth, ye twain Date: about 1890 Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  Content:  An early draft of "On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!," which was published first in 1891. The draft is written on a letter from Albert Johannsen (dated March 22, 1890), and two opened envelopes (one postmarked April 27, 1890). Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00072 Title:  Go forth, ye twain Date: about 1890 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of "On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!," which was published first in 1891. On the verso is a note in Whitman's hand reading "to my 2d & last Annex for L of G." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old-Age Recitatives" Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 28 x 21 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Proof pages of six poems collected under the general title "Old-Age Recitatives." The poems included are: "Old Chants" (first published in 1891), "On, On the Same,Ye Jocund Twain!" (first published in 1891), "Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht!" (first published in 1891), "L. of G.'s Purport" (only two lines of the twelve-line poem of the same title first published in 1891), "My task" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891), and "For us two, reader dear" (first published in 1891). At the top of the first page is a note to the printer in Whitman's hand. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00074 Title:  On, on awhile ye jocund twain Date: about 1890 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of "On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!," which was published first in 1891. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: tex.00071 Title:  On, on the same, ye jocund twain! Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Heavily revised draft, approximately fourteen lines, of "On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!", which first appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy in 1891. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Whitman Archive ID: tex.00080 Title:  On, on the same, ye jocund twain! Date:  Physical Description: 1 leaf, Proof with handwritten corrections View Images:  1  Content:  Heavily revised proof sheet of "On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!", which first appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy in 1891. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Whitman Archive ID: loc.00239 Title:  On, on the same, ye jocund twain! Date: May 10, 1890 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28 x 22 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  A late draft of "On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!," which was published first in 1891. This draft is signed and dated May 10, 1890. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00240 Title:  On, On the Same, Ye Jocund Twain! Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 3 leaves, 24 x 15 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Three proof sheets of "On, On the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!," first published in 1891. One proof has several corrections and a note for the printer; the other two proofs have no annotations. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Once I Pass'd through a Populous City Whitman Archive ID: uva.00183 Title:  [Once I passed through a populous] I am the child of Democracy Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 20 x 16 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The recto verses appearing on this manuscript became the main section 9 of "Enfans d'Adam" in 1860 and were retitled "Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City" in 1867. On the verso appear two fragments: an undeleted verse that would be used in Satan's section of "Chanting the Square Deific" in "Sequel to Drum-Taps" (1865-66); and what would become section 23 of "Proto-Leaf", which becomes "Starting from Paumanok" in 1867. The undeleted verse is upside-down relative to the deleted section. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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One's-Self I Sing Whitman Archive ID: uva.00060 Title:  Inscription Date: between 1855 and 1867 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 19.5 x 12.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript entitled "Inscription" appears to be a revision of other "Inscriptions" Whitman gathered in a notebook, along with prose drafts for a never-finished introduction to Leaves of Grass, and attached to his copy of the 1855 paper-bound edition. (The entire collection of draft "inscription" and introductory material is currently housed at the New York Public Library.) In the 1867 Leaves of Grass Whitman culled material from this poem and the other "Inscription" poems to create an italicized "Inscription" that he placed before "Starting from Paumanok" at the beginning of the book; in that edition he also transferred part of verse 2 to "As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shore" (later the line was dropped and the title was revised to "By Blue Ontario's Shore"). From 1872 onward, this poem, revised and retitled "One's-Self I Sing," was printed as the first of several poems in the "Inscriptions" cluster that opened the book. In the 1888 November Boughs, however, Whitman reprinted the 1867 version as "Small the Theme of my Chant." Note: This manuscript draft may have been written before the Civil War, since it does not include the 1867 line "My Days I sing, and the Lands—with interstice I knew / of hapless War." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: yal.00010 Title:  Inscription: to the 4th Edition of Leaves of Grass Date: about 1867 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a draft of the poem, "Inscription," which appeared in the 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass. The poem was later revised and published as "One's-Self I Sing." In the 1892 edition of Leaves of Grass, lines from the poem from this manuscript appear in both "One's-Self I Sing" and "Small the Theme of My Chant." Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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On Journeys through the States Title:  "On Journeys Through the States" Date: between 1870-1880 Physical Description: 1 leaf Images: forthcoming Content:  Proof of "On Journeys Through the States," published as No. 17 of "Chants Democratic" in 1860 and again in a different form in 1871. The text of this proof varies from the version in the 1891-1892 edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: uva.00198 Title:  Wander-Teachers Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21.5 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  The poem was originally numbered 50. Whitman penciled in a question mark, in parentheses, in the upper-right corner. This became section 17 of "Chants Democratic" in the 1860 Leaves of Grass, with leaf 1 corresponding to verses 1-6 and leaf 2 ("We confer on equal terms with / each of The States,") to verses 7-13. Although he dropped it from Leaves of Grass in 1867, Whitman nonetheless used the poem, permanently retitled "On Journeys through the States," in Passage to India in 1871. In 1872 and 1876 it appeared in the "Passage to India" annexes to Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets, respectively, and in the 1881 edition it took its final position in the cluster "Inscriptions." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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On the Beach at Night Title:  "[(illeg.) Dick Hunt]" Date: 1856-1857 Physical Description: handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  |  31  |  32  |  33  |  34  |  35  |  36  |  37  |  38  |  39  |  40  |  41  |  42  |  43  |  44  |  45  |  46  |  47  |  48  |  49  |  50  |  51  |  52  |  53  |  54  |  55  |  56  |  57  |  58  |  59  |  60  |  61  |  62  |  63  |  64  |  65  |  66  |  67  |  68  |  69  |  70  |  71  |  72  |  73  |  74  |  75  |  76  |  77  |  78  |  79  |  80  |  81  |  82  |  83  |  84  |  85  |  86  |  87  |  88  |  89  |  90  |  91  |  92  |  93  |  94  |  95  |  96  |  97  |  98  |  99  |  100  |  101  |  102  |  103  |  104  |  105  |  106  |  107  |  108  |  109  |  110  |  111  |  112  |  113  |  114  |  115  |  116  |  117  |  118  |  119  |  120  |  121  |  122  |  123  |  124  |  125  |  126  |  127  |  128  |  129  |  130  |  131  |  132  |  133  |  134  |  135  |  136  |  137  |  138  |  139  |  140  |  141  |  142  |  143  |  144  |  145  |  146  |  147  |  148  |  149  |  150  |  151  |  152  |  153  |  154  |  155  |  156  |  157  |  158  |  159  |  160  |  161  |  162  |  163  |  164  |  165  |  166  |  167  |  168  |  169  |  170  |  171  |  172  |  173  |  174  |  175  Content:  A notebook Whitman used for various purposes in the mid-1850s. Edward F. Grier, in his edition of Whitman's Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984. 6 vols.), noted that the notebook contains lines and phrases that relate to several poems: "Song of the Broad-Axe," "To a Common Prostitute," "You Felons on Trial in Courts," "Starting from Paumanok," "Trickle Drops," "I Was Looking for a Long While," "Poem of Joys," "Facing West from California's Shores," "To the States," "A Song of the Rolling Earth," "On the Beach a Night Alone," "Full of Life Now," and "With Antecedents." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Orange Buds by Mail From Florida Whitman Archive ID: uva.00165 Title:  Orange buds by mail Date: 1887 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 14.5 cm x 24 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A manuscript draft of the poem eventually titled "Orange Buds by Mail from Florida" and first published in the New York Herald, March 19, 1888. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00001 Title:  Orange Buds by Mail from Florida Date: 1887 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 15.5 cm x 32.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript contains a draft version of the note that appears in brackets before the start of the poem titled "Orange Buds by Mail from Florida" and first published in the New York Herald, March 19, 1888. A note at the bottom of the page states: "Sent to H March 17" indicating the draft was likely completed around the time of publication. On the verso the words "Walt Whitman" and "Camden New Jersey" are written in an unknown hand. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Osceola Whitman Archive ID: yal.00037 Title:  Osceola Date: 1890 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  This manuscript is apparently a printer's copy of the poem, "Osceola," first published in Munyon's Illustrated World in April 1890. This manuscript is bound together with others. Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Whitman Archive ID: loc.00076 Title:  The Commonplace Date: about 1890 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 27 x 19 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one side is a draft of "The Commonplace", which was first published in manuscript facsimile in 1891. On the other side is a cancelled early draft of "Osceola," a poem first published in 1890. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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O Star of France 1870-71 Title:  "O Star of France" Date: 1871 Physical Description: 5 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  Content:  This draft of "O Star of France," first published in 1872, is considerably different from the published poem. The title of the poem appears again on the verso of the last manuscript page. Repository: By permission of The British Library Title:  "O Star of France" Date: 1871 Physical Description: 4 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  Draft of "O Star of France," first published in the Galaxy in June 1871. Repository: A Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscript in the Musée de la Coopération Franco-Américaine Title:  "O Star of France!" Date: June, 1871 Content:  A partial copy of the June, 1871 issue of The Galaxy, containing Whitman's poem "O Star of France!" The poem was later revised and published as "O Star of France" (without exclamation point). Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Our Old Feuillage Whitman Archive ID: duk.00271 Title:  [And there a hunter's camp] Date: about 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one side are two lines, heavily corrected, from a draft of the poem first published in 1860 as "Chants Democratic 4" and eventually titled "Our Old Feuillage." On the other side are two lightly corrected lines with an uncertain connection to Whitman's published poetry. This scrap has been attached by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with "[(written for the voice)]," "[Poem of "(the Devil]," and "Poem of Sadness." Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Title:  "[Printed note from Walt Whitman]" Date: January 7, 1860 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  A note written to Harper's Magazine to accompany the submission of "A Chant of National Feuillage," which the editors declined. The poem was first published in 1860 as "Chants Democratic" No. 60, then later as "American Feuillage" and finally "Our Old Feuillage." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: uva.00185 Title:  Feuillage Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 16 leaves, 21.5 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  Content:  This poem was originally numbered 89. Whitman also numbered each leaf in the lower-left corner in pencil: the leaves follow the order 1-9, 9 1/2 (a full page despite its number), and 10-15. The expression "the Eightieth year of / These States" at the top of leaf 2 indicates that Whitman was working on this poem as early as 1856. It became section 4 of "Chants Democratic" in 1860. In 1867 Whitman ungrouped it and retitled the poem "American Feuillage," a name it kept until being permanently retitled "Our Old Feuillage" in 1881. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Title:  "Our Old Feuillage" Date: between 1876-1881 Physical Description: 6 leaves, 20.5 x 12.5 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  A bound copy of six leaves (the poem "American Feuillage") from the 1876 edition of Leaves of Grass with multiple corrections and revisions, including the change of the title to "Our Old Feuillage." The revisions reflect the poem as it appeared in the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. On the first introductory page is written, in another hand, "all changes and notations are by Whitman and in his holograph." Also included, along with a title page reading "Our Old Feuillage, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof," is a photograph of Whitman. "Our Old Feuillage" has also been titled "A Chant of National Feuillage" and "Chants Democratic" No. 4. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Out from Behind This Mask Whitman Archive ID: loc.00496 Title:  [(Returning to my pages front once] Date: between 1873-1876 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Draft of the poem "Out From Behind This Mask," first published in 1876. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00248 Title:  [(Returning to my pages front once] Date: between 1873-1876 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Draft of the poem "Out From Behind This Mask," first published in 1876, written on two scraps pasted together. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00250 Title:  [here strange continents] Date: between 1873-1876 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Draft of lines from the poem "Out From Behind This Mask," first published in 1876. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00249 Title:  [This designation of Myself] Date: between 1873-1876 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Draft of lines from the poem "Out From Behind This Mask," first published in 1876. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00251 Title:  Behind this Mask Date: between 1873-1876 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Notes and trial lines for the poem "Out From Behind This Mask," first published in 1876, written on the verso of a letter to Whitman from Minnie Vincent, dated Utica, New York, December 11, 1873, asking for an autograph). Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00244 Title:  Out from behind this Mask Date: between 1873-1876 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  Draft of the poem "Out From Behind This Mask," first published in 1876. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00247 Title:  Out from behind this Mask Date: between 1873-1876 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Draft of the poem "Out From Behind This Mask," first published in 1876. The title is written in blue pencil. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: bpl.00001 Title:  Out from Behind This Mask Date: ca. 1876 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a signed draft of "Out from Behind This Mask," first published in 1876, which contains only a version of Part 1 of the poem. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Boston Public Library Whitman Archive ID: loc.00252 Title:  Out From Behind This Mask Date: about 1876 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 15.5 x 13.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A corrected copy of "Out From Behind This Mask," cut from pages 24 and 25 of Two Rivulets and pasted together to make one page. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00245 Title:  Out from this Mask Date: between 1873-1876 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Draft of the poem "Out From Behind This Mask," first published in 1876. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00246 Title:  Out From This Mask Date: between 1873-1876 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  Content:  Draft of the poem "Out From Behind This Mask," first published in 1876, written on one folded leaf that also has prose notes beginning "With your permission." "Out From This Mask" is printed at the top in pencil. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: usc.00001 Title:  Veil with their lids, &c Date: about 1870 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 23 x 14.1, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a manuscript of the poem, "Veil with their lids, &c," unpublished in Whitman's lifetime. The poem is apparently based on a photograph of Whitman possibly taken by the photographer, William Kurtz, in the 1860s. A note at the top of the manuscript, in Whitman's hand, reads, "p. 10 Passage to India," indicating that the poem might have been intended for inclusion in the volume of that name (Passage to India) published in 1870. The lines seem to anticipate the poem, "Out from Behind This Mask," first published in the New York Tribune on February 19, 1876. Repository: University of South Carolina, Joel Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-Century American Literature

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Outlines for a Tomb Whitman Archive ID: duk.00022 Title:  [?Gliding] Date: 1870 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  A fragment describing street and interior scenes similar to those in "Outlines for a Tomb." "Outlines for a Tomb" was first published in The Galaxy in January 1870 under the title "Brother of All, with Generous Hand" and finally in 1881 under the title "Outlines for a Tomb." Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Title:  "Brother of All, With Generous Hand" Date: January, 1870 Content:  Part of a copy of The Galaxy, containing Whitman's poem, "Brother of All, With Generous Hand." The poem was later titled "Outlines for a Tomb." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Out of May's Shows Selected Whitman Archive ID: unc.00005 Title:  Out of May's shows selected Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  This is a manuscript draft of the poem, "Out of May's Shows Selected," which was first published in the New York Herald on May 10, 1888. Repository: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00005 Title:  A Child's Reminiscence Date: about 1859 Physical Description: 19 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  |  31  |  32  |  33  |  34  |  35  |  36  |  37  Content:  Printer's copy of the poem "A Child's Reminiscence," which appeared in the New-York Saturday Press on 24 December 1859. This poem later appeared as "A Word Out of the Sea" in Leaves of Grass (1860); as "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" in "Sea-Shore Memories," Passage to India (1871); and finally in "Sea Drift," Leaves of Grass (1881-82). Repository: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library Whitman Archive ID: loc.00078 Title:  Leave-taking Words Date: undated Physical Description: 1 leaf, 23.5 x 13.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The page appears to be a draft of a title page for a manuscript titled "Leave-taking Words" or "Last Ripples (A Prelude to Passage to India)." At the bottom of the page are four lines from the end of "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," first published as "A Child's Reminiscence" in 1859. The lines from the poem are cleanly written, suggesting that they were meant to serve as an epigraph for Whitman's manuscript. "Passage to India" was published first in 1871. On the verso is a draft of a stanza of "Eidólons," first published in 1876. Repository: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress, 1842-1937 Whitman Archive ID: loc.00079 Title:  Out of A Hundred Years Date: undated Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  A scrap of paper with an underlined title written across the top reading "Out of A Hundred Years" and subtitled "in Prose and Verse Melanged." In the top margin is written "?Vistas." Repository: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress, 1842-1937 Title:  "The Whale Chase" Date: 1869 Content:  Proof sheets of several poems: "The Whale Chase" (published as a part of "A Song of Joys"), "The Singer in Prison", first published in 1869, "A Word Out of the Sea" (first published as "A Child's Reminiscence" in 1859 and finally as "Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking"), and five poems which are not Whitman's: part of "The Passions" (by William Collins), part of "The Battle of Naseby" (by Thomas Babbington Macaulay), "The Midnight Visitor" (probably a translation of "La Ballade du Desespere" by Henri Murger), "John Anderson My Jo" (by Robert Burns), and "The Bridge of Sighs" (by Thomas Hood). There are no annotations on the sheets. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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O You whom I Often and Silently Come Whitman Archive ID: uva.00324 Title:  [O you whom I often and silently come where you are] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 14.5 x 9 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one leaf of white wove paper (14.5 x 9 cm), in brown-black ink, with revisions in the same ink. Pinholes mostly at the top, with a few lower down. The tenth section of the original sequence "Live Oak, with Moss" (with ornamental Roman numeral), this was reformatted and renumbered but otherwise left unrevised as section 43 of "Calamus" in 1860. In 1867 Whitman permanently retitled it "O You Whom I Often and Silently Come." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Pallid Wreath, The Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00074 Title:  The Pallid Wreath Date: 1891 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  Draft of the poem "The Pallid Wreath," which was published in the Critic 18 (10 January 1891) and reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891). The original envelope containing the draft and comments to the editor of the Critic is included. Repository: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library

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Passage to India Title:  Passage to India Date: about 1871 Physical Description: handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Page proofs of Walt Whitman's book of 1871, Passage to India, with several (mostly minor) corrections in Whitman's hand. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: uva.00307 Title:  As of Eternity Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  Content:  On two leaves of pink paper, both 21 x 13 cm, in black ink, with minor revisions in the same ink. Pinholes mostly in center and at top of both pages. This poem became section 21 of "Calamus" in 1860; the lines on the first manuscript page became verses 1-6, and those on the second ("I hear not the volumes of/ sound merely—...") became 7-9. Retitled "That Music Always Round Me" in 1867, it was transferred in 1871 to the "Whispers of Heavenly Death" cluster in Passage to India. In 1881 Whitman incorporated it, with the rest of the cluster, in the main body of Leaves. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00235 Title:  Fables Date: 1871 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 23 x 20 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This poem became numbered verse paragraph 4 of section 2 of the title poem in the separate 1871 publication "Passage to India." In 1881 the poem "Passage to India" was transferred, ungrouped, to the main body of Leaves of Grass. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00319 Title:  Leaf [O dying! Always dying!] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21.5 x 12 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one light blue Williamsburgh tax blank (21.5 x 12 cm), in dark brown ink, with revisions in fine pen and pencil. Whitman penciled in a question mark, in parentheses, next to the title. With the addition of the new first line "O love!" this became section 27 of "Calamus" in 1860. In the 1867 Leaves it was retitled "O Living Always—Always Dying!" Whitman next transferred it to the "Passage to India" supplement bound in with Leaves, where it reappeared in 1876; in the 1881 Leaves Whitman permanently added it to the cluster "Whispers of Heavenly Death." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: loc.00078 Title:  Leave-taking Words Date: undated Physical Description: 1 leaf, 23.5 x 13.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The page appears to be a draft of a title page for a manuscript titled "Leave-taking Words" or "Last Ripples (A Prelude to Passage to India)." At the bottom of the page are four lines from the end of "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," first published as "A Child's Reminiscence" in 1859. The lines from the poem are cleanly written, suggesting that they were meant to serve as an epigraph for Whitman's manuscript. "Passage to India" was published first in 1871. On the verso is a draft of a stanza of "Eidólons," first published in 1876. Repository: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress, 1842-1937 Whitman Archive ID: har.00004 Title:  Passage to India Date: about 1870 Physical Description: 21 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  Content:  This complete draft, with extensive revisions, of "Passage to India," a poem first published in 1871, includes passages cut from letterpress proofs. The draft is bound with a letter to Andrew and Thomas Rome, dated 15 March 1870. Repository: Manuscripts Department, Houghton Library, Harvard University Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00077 Title:  Passage to India Date: before 1871 Physical Description: 13 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  Content:  Notes and drafted lines for "Passage to India," a poem first published in 1871. The first page features the watermark of "Platner & Porter, Congress" in the upper right-hand corner. Repository: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00080 Title: NotesPassage to India Date: about 1871 Physical Description: 23 leaves, numbered 1-21, with pages designated "5 1/2" and "5 3/4.", 25.2 by 20 to 31.2 by 20.5 cm., handwritten with printed clippings View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  |  31  |  32  |  33  |  34  |  35  |  36  |  37  |  38  |  39  |  40  |  41  |  42  |  43  |  44  |  45  Content:  Revised draft of "Passage to India." The draft is accompanied by a typewritten memorandum by Emory Halloway, typewritten letters from Amy Lowell and Clifton Joseph Furness to Oscar Lion. Repository: The Oscar Lion Collection of Walt Whitman, The New York Public Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00325 Title:  Poemet Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  On two pink leaves (21 x 13 cm), in black ink, with revisions in the same ink and in light ink. Pinholes in center, at top, and in top-left corner. This poem was originally titled "Leaf" and apparently numbered 78; Whitman inscribed its new title, "Poemet," in light ink. It became section 17 of "Calamus" in 1860, with the lines on the first leaf corresponding to verses 1-7 and those on the second ("And what I dreamed I will/ henceforth tell...") to verses 8-13 of the first published version. Retitled "Of Him I Love Day and Night" in 1867, it was transferred to the "Whispers of Heavenly Death" cluster in Passage to India in 1871. In 1881 Whitman incorporated it, with the rest of the cluster, in the main body of Leaves. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Title:  "Thou Vast Rondure, Swimming in Space" Date: between 1868-1869 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 32 x 13.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  An offprint of "Thou Vast Rondure, Swimming in Space," with note at the top reading "J. T. Trowbridge, from W. W." and a note on the verso reading "is to app. in London Fortnightly for April." Though the poem was submitted in either 1868 or 1869, it was never published in the Fortnightly. It was later incorporated in the poem "Passage to India," which was first published in 1871. "Thou Vast Rondure, Swimming in Space" was not published as a separate poem. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: usc.00001 Title:  Veil with their lids, &c Date: about 1870 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 23 x 14.1, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a manuscript of the poem, "Veil with their lids, &c," unpublished in Whitman's lifetime. The poem is apparently based on a photograph of Whitman possibly taken by the photographer, William Kurtz, in the 1860s. A note at the top of the manuscript, in Whitman's hand, reads, "p. 10 Passage to India," indicating that the poem might have been intended for inclusion in the volume of that name (Passage to India) published in 1870. The lines seem to anticipate the poem, "Out from Behind This Mask," first published in the New York Tribune on February 19, 1876. Repository: University of South Carolina, Joel Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-Century American Literature

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Patroling Barnegat Whitman Archive ID: loc.00258 Title:  Patroling Barnegat Date: about 1880 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 12 x 16 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Two copies of a proof of "Patroling Barnegat," each with a different correction in Whitman's hand. The poem was first published in 1880. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: tex.00041 Title:  Patroling Barnegat Date: about 1880 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Proof sheet with handwritten corrections, apparently prepared for the April 1881 publication of "Patroling Barnegat" in Harper's Monthly. The poem had been first published in The American in June 1880. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Whitman Archive ID: loc.00254 Title:  The Patrol at Barnegat Date: about 1880 Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  Content:  An early draft entitled "The Patrol at Barnegat," full of trial lines for the poem that would be published as "Patroling Barnegat" in 1880. On the verso of one leaf is a letter to Whitman from E. H. Hames dated May 12, 1880. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00255 Title:  The Patrol at Barnegat Date: about 1880 Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  Content:  A draft entitled "The Patrol at Barnegat," full of trial lines for the poem that would be published as "Patroling Barnegat" in 1880. The draft had originally been titled "The Sea Beach Patrol," then "The Sea Shore Patrol," and finally "The Patrol at Barnegat." On the verso of the draft are two receipts from the Philadelphia Y.M.C.A., dated March 22, 1880 and April 15, 1880, and an unfinished letter from Whitman to John Burroughs, dated August 20. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00256 Title:  The Patrol at Barnegat Date: about 1880 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A heavily-corrected draft of the poem that would be published as "Patroling Barnegat" in 1880 entitled "The Patrol at Barnegat." In the upper left corner is written "Patroling Barnegat," which Whitman eventually used as the title. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00257 Title:  The Patrol at Barnegat Date: about 1880 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  A draft made from several small sheets glued together and entitled "The Patrol at Barnegat." It is a version of the poem that would be published as "Patroling Barnegat" in 1880. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Paumanok Picture, A Whitman Archive ID: uva.00014 Title:  [How can there be immortality] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 4.5 x 14.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  These lines, appearing on a very small section of white laid paper cut and cropped irregularly, bear a strong resemblance to the (eventual) second verse paragraph in section 6 of "Starting from Paumanok," first published in 1860 as "Proto-Leaf." The fragmentary lines on the verso (beginning "Downward, buoyant, swif[t]"), represent a different version of a line incorporated in the pre-1855 notebook poem "Pictures" and of one inscribed in the 1854 notebook [I know a rich capitalist...], currently housed at the New York Public Library. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Paumanok Whitman Archive ID: loc.00259 Title:  Paumanok Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12 x 21 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Written in ink on a sheet of white paper, cut from a larger sheet, is a late draft of "Paumanok," first published in 1888. It is signed in full at bottom. The world "personal" is in a circle in upper right-hand corner. In pencil on verso in another hand: "Feb 18, 1888." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00260 Title:  Paumanok Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 22 x 14.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  A small newspaper clipping of "Paumanok" pasted onto a larger sheet of paper, with notes and corrections in Whitman's hand. "Paumanok" was first published in the New York Herald in 1888. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: unc.00002 Title:  Paumanok Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  This is a manuscript draft of the poem, "Paumanok," which was first published in the New York Herald on February 29, 1888. Repository: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Whitman Archive ID: uva.00166 Title:  Paumanok Date: 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 14 cm x 20 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript contains a draft of the poem titled "Paumanok" first published in the New York Herald, February 29, 1888. Notes at the top state "pub'd" and "personal." A note at the bottom states "sent to Herald Feb 27 '88" indicating the draft was likely completed around the time of publication. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Pensive and Faltering Whitman Archive ID: loc.00323 Title:  Whispers of Heavenly Death Date: about 1870 Physical Description: 15 leaves, 20 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  Content:  Mostly mounted clippings of poems taken from Leaves of Grass, stitched and tied with ribbon by Walt Whitman. An autograph title page is followed by pages numbered in red pencil 469-484. One poem, "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," on p. 481 is written entirely in Walt Whitman's hand, and other corrections and additions are in Whitman's hand throughout. The poems included are: "Whispers of Heavenly Death," "Yet, Yet Ye Downcast Hours," "As Nearing Departure" (later published, in a different form, as "As the Time Draws Nigh"), "Darest Thou Now O Soul," "Of Him I Love Day and Night," "Quicksand Years That Whirl Me I Know Not Whither" (later published as "Quicksand Years"), "That Music Always Round Me," "As If a Phantom Caress'd Me," "O Living Always, Always Dying," "Here, Sailor!" (later published as "What Ship Puzzled at Sea"), "A Noiseless Patient Spider," "To One Shortly to Die," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," "This Day, O Soul," "What Place is Besieged?," "The Last Invocation," and "Pensive and Faltering." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Pensive on Her Dead Gazing Whitman Archive ID: loc.00298 Title:  Songs of Parting Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 18 leaves with handwritten annotations, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  Content:  Bound proofs of Whitman's cluster "Songs of Parting," containing 17 poems. Opposite a portrait of Whitman, the title page reads, "Songs of Parting, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof." These corrections were probably for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. The 17 poems included are: "As the Time Draws Nigh," "Ashes of Soldiers," "Years of the Modern," "Thoughts," "Song at Sunset," "My Legacy," "Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All," "Camps of Green," "Bathed in War's Perfume," "Now Finalé to the Shore," "As they Draw to a Close," "The Untold Want," "Portals," "These Carols," "To the Reader at Parting," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," and "So Long." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Pilot in the Mist, The Whitman Archive ID: hun.00014 Title:  Fancies at Navesink, the Pilot in the Mist Date: ca. 1884 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a draft of "Pilot in the Mist," a poem that is part of the eight-poem sequence "Fancies at Navesink," first published in 1885. Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

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Pioneers! O Pioneers! Whitman Archive ID: loc.00263 Title:  Pioneers! O Pioneers! Date: about 1865 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 16.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of the first two stanzas of "Pioneers! O Pioneers!," which was first published in 1865, written in ink on a rough, bluish piece of paper. On the verso is a note in pencil concerning wounded soldiers. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Poem—a perfect school Whitman Archive ID: tul.00002 Title:  [Poem—a perfect school] and [The three or four poets are well] Date: undated Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Original autograph manuscript of Whitman's notes for a poem about "a perfect school." On the verso are lines, beginning "The three or four poets are well," that were included, in a revised form, in Whitman's poem "To Think of Time," first published without a title in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, as "Burial Poem" in 1856, "Burial" in 1860 and 1867, and under its final title in 1871. Repository: Walt Whitman Ephemera, University of Tulsa

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Poem of Remembrances for a Girl or a Boy of These States Whitman Archive ID: uva.00281 Title:  [As procreation] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 6 x 18.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The ideas expressed in this manuscript may have been used in the 1856 "Poem of Remembrances for A Girl or A Boy of These States," which became the sixth poem in "Chants Democratic and Native American" in 1860. It was subsequently shortened by several stanzas (1867) and retitled (1872) "Think of the Soul" before being excluded from Leaves of Grass with the publication of the 1881 edition. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Poets to Come Whitman Archive ID: uva.00271 Title:  [Merely what I tell is not to justify me] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 4 x 15 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The lines appearing on the recto of this manuscript bear a strong resemblence to the ideas expressed in the opening lines of section 14 of the poem "Chants Democratic" appearing in 1860 and which eventually became the independent poem "Poets to Come.". The lines on the verso (deleted with several vertical and horizontal pencil strokes) seem to have been rejected. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00196 Title:  To Poets to Come Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 20 x 16 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Whitman numbered the inscribed sides of the folded leaf, in pencil, in the upper right corners. Side 1 corresponds to verses 1-9 of section 14 of "Chants Democratic" in the 1860 Leaves of Grass; side 2 ("I expect that Kanadians,") became verses 10-16 of that version. In 1867 it was shortened to make up section 4 of the final "Leaves of Grass" cluster. In 1872 it was permanently retitled "Poets to Come" and transferred to the cluster "The Answerer," where it stayed until being moved to the "Inscriptions" cluster in 1881. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Portals Whitman Archive ID: loc.00298 Title:  Songs of Parting Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 18 leaves with handwritten annotations, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  Content:  Bound proofs of Whitman's cluster "Songs of Parting," containing 17 poems. Opposite a portrait of Whitman, the title page reads, "Songs of Parting, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof." These corrections were probably for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. The 17 poems included are: "As the Time Draws Nigh," "Ashes of Soldiers," "Years of the Modern," "Thoughts," "Song at Sunset," "My Legacy," "Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All," "Camps of Green," "Bathed in War's Perfume," "Now Finalé to the Shore," "As they Draw to a Close," "The Untold Want," "Portals," "These Carols," "To the Reader at Parting," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," and "So Long." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Prairie-Grass Dividing, The Whitman Archive ID: uva.00326 Title:  Prairie-Grass Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one leaf of pink paper (21 x 13 cm), in black ink, with revisions in an even blacker ink and in pencil. Pinholes in center. The poem was originally numbered 53. In 1860 Whitman designated it section 25 of "Calamus," transforming the title into a new first line and expanding the original first line into verses 2-4. In 1867 he further revised it, permanently retitling it "The Prairie-Grass Dividing." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Prairie States, The Whitman Archive ID: byu.00001 Title:  The Prairie States Date: March 16, 1880 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a late draft, probably for the printer, of "The Prairie States," which was first published in 1880. It is signed and dated March 16, 1880. Repository: L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University Whitman Archive ID: tex.00029 Title:  The Prairie States Date: 1880 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Signed manuscript, lightly revised, of the poem "The Prairie States," which was first published in The Art Autograph in March 1880. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin

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Prairie Sunset, A Whitman Archive ID: uva.00167 Title:  A Prairie Sunset Date: around 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 14 cm x 21 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript contains a draft of the poem titled "A Prairie Sunset" first published in the New York Herald, March 9, 1888. A note at the top states: "sent to Herald March 2" indicating the draft was likely completed around the time of publication. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Prayer of Columbus Whitman Archive ID: loc.00272 Title:  [A batter'd wreck'd old man] Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of lines from "Prayer of Columbus," first published in 1874. The lines are written on stationery from the Attorney General's office and on the verso are prose notes, one of which reads "Acknowledge our obligations to English & other foreign literature." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00081 Title:  [Again with latest breath] Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 16 x 13.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Early draft of lines from "Prayer of Columbus," first published in 1874. On the verso is a draft of Whitman's prose introduction to the poem. Repository: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress, 1842-1937 Whitman Archive ID: loc.00287 Title:  [All my emprises] Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of lines from "Prayer of Columbus," first published in 1874. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00275 Title:  [Be it with] Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  A draft of lines from "Prayer of Columbus," first published in 1874. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00267 Title:  [By me] Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  A draft of lines from "Prayer of Columbus," first published in 1874. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00288 Title:  [Haply the lifeless cross] Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of lines from "Prayer of Columbus," first published in 1874. On the verso is prose beginning "then intimate definitely that. . ." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00285 Title:  [I am too full of woe] Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  A draft of lines from "Prayer of Columbus," first published in 1874. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: amh.00002 Title:  [It is in itself] Date: about 1873 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is an early draft, with revisions, of the paragraph that introduced "Prayer of Columbus" when it was first published in the March 1874 issue of Harper's Monthly Magazine and then in Two Rivulets (1876). Later printings of the poem deleted the introduction. Repository: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections Whitman Archive ID: loc.00281 Title:  [my altar here the bleak sea-sand] Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  A draft of lines from "Prayer of Columbus," first published in 1874. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00278 Title:  [my brain grows rack'd] Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  A draft of lines from "Prayer of Columbus," first published in 1874. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00277 Title:  [my end draws] Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  A draft of lines from "Prayer of Columbus," first published in 1874. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00880 Title:  [Poem—Columbus] Date: about May, 1869 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 41 x 27 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Detached from Irish Republic, v. 3, no. 5, p. 60: "The Last Days of Columbus" [abstract from Sir Arthur Phelps' book The Spanish Conquest in America, reprinted from Harper's Magazine]. Across left margin in Walt Whitman's hand: "Poems—Columbus—(?that name for piece)—make the poem an utterance of Columbus—there on Jamaica island (read first Ulysses, by Tennyson)." Some of the passages in the abstract are marked and underlined by Whitman. This is assumed to be the original idea of the poem "Prayer of Columbus," first published in 1874. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00274 Title:  [Steersman unseen] Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of lines from "Prayer of Columbus," first published in 1874. On the verso are prose notes beginning "Idea in each of the three papers." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00284 Title:  [The terminus now near] Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  A draft of lines from "Prayer of Columbus," first published in 1874. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00286 Title:  [Thine now the helm] Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of lines from "Prayer of Columbus," first published in 1874. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00268 Title:  [Thou knowest my] Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of lines from "Prayer of Columbus," first published in 1874. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00283 Title:  [Utter prostrate] Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of lines from "Prayer of Columbus," first published in 1874. On the verso are personal notes by Whitman including a listing of the number of words and lines in an unidentified text. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00282 Title:  [what do I know of life?] Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of lines from "Prayer of Columbus," first published in 1874. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00269 Title:  [what is the guidance] Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  A draft of lines from "Prayer of Columbus," first published in 1874. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00276 Title:  [What may be the end I know not] Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of lines from "Prayer of Columbus," first published in 1874. On the verso is a prose note reading "much of this stuff will come in the 'Notes.'" Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00270 Title:  Columbus Prayer (ad 1503) Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Notes on the title of the poem that became "Prayer of Columbus," first published in 1874. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00271 Title:  Columbus Prayers (ad 1503) Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of lines from "Prayer of Columbus," first published in 1874. On the verso is prose concerning "Nationality" and "Cohesion." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00279 Title:  Pourtraiture of Columbus Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Prose notes concerning Whitman's idea for the poem "Prayer of Columbus," first published in 1874. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00280 Title:  Pourtray Columbus Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Prose notes concerning Whitman's idea for the poem "Prayer of Columbus," first published in 1874. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00266 Title:  Prayer of Columbus Date: 1881 Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  Content:  Bound corrected proofs of "Prayer of Columbus," which was published first in 1874. The title page, which follows Whitman's portrait, reads "Prayer of Columbus, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof, 1881." The corrections are most likely for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855) Whitman Archive ID: duk.00128 Title:  [(Of the great poet)] Date: 1855 or before Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  Content:  Notes that anticipate the preface to the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00086 Title:  [A cluster of poems] Date: about 1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 19.5 x 15.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  These notes for a cluster of poems that Whitman characterisizes as being "in the same way as Calamus Leaves expressing the idea and sentiment of Happiness . . . " appear on the verso of a page of prose notes for a poem or essay to be titled "Living Pictures" or "America." These notes mirror thoughts and expressions contained in the 1855 Preface. The manuscript lists various occupations and includes the phrase "not one jot less than" factors which bear relation to the poem eventually titled "Song for Occupations" appearing for the first time as an untitled poem in the 1855 edition. Whitman's use of the old long "s" in the word "less" indicates that the leaf was inscribed quite early in his poetic career. Whitman's use of the title "Calamus Leaves" on the opposite side, as in some very similar notes currently housed at Duke University, point toward the 1860 cluster "Enfans d'Adam" and dates the notes to some point in the late spring of 1859. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: upa.00001 Title:  [after all] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript is written on a green sheet used for the endpapers of the first edition of the 1855 Leaves of Grass, an edition that begins with a ten-page statement in prose, originally untitled and later known generally as the 1855 Preface. This manuscript seems to represent an early attempt by Whitman to recast the 1855 prose Preface into poetry; indeed, the first numbered poem in the cluster of poems titled, "Chants Democratic and Native American," which appeared in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass is thought to be a recasting of the 1855 prose Preface not unlike the poem, "By Blue Ontario's Shore," which also was an adaptation of the prose Preface that later appeared in the 1856 Leaves of Grass. Whitman Archive ID: uva.00248 Title:  [A little sum laid aside for burial money—a few clapboards around] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 17 x 19 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a poetic rendition of a long sentence in the preface to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. The prose sentence begins, "Beyond the independence of a little sum laid aside for burial-money, and of a few clapboards around..." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: upa.00005 Title:  [are you and me] [Sanity and ensemble characterise the great master] Date: about 1856 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one side of the leaf are about twenty lines related to the 1855 Preface to Leaves of Grass and to the poem first published as "Chants Democratic 1" in 1860. The lines were probably written as Whitman was mining the preface for material to be used in the poem, which was eventually titled "By Blue Ontario's Shore." On the reverse are fourteen lines, also clearly related to the 1855 Preface but only indirectly, if at all, to "Chants Democratic 1." Whitman Archive ID: duk.00302 Title:  [It seems to me] Date: 1855 or before Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Note apparently recording Whitman's intent to eschew "ornament" in his writing, possibly related to a similar passage in the prose preface to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. This scrap has been attached by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with "[What shall the great poet be then?]," "[The most superb beauties]," and "[Make no quotations]." Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: duk.00303 Title:  [What shall the great poet be then?] Date: 1855 or before Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Note about "the great poet," possibly connected to a passage (denouncing the "swarms of the polished deprecating" poets) in the prose preface to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. This scrap has been attached by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with "[It seems to me]," "[The most superb beauties]," and "[Make no quotations]." Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: hun.00022 Title:  Preface to Leaves of Grass Date: ca. 1855 Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  Content:  This is a draft of the "Preface" to the first edition of Leaves of Grass, published in 1855. Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

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procession without halt, A Whitman Archive ID: owu.00001 Title:  [A procession without halt] Date: undated Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of a poem beginning "A procession without halt." The relation of this poem to Whitman's published work is unknown. Repository: The Bayley-Whitman Collection, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware OH

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Promise to California, A Whitman Archive ID: uva.00318 Title:  Leaf [A promise to Indiana] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 22 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one leaf of pink paper (22 x 13 cm), in black ink, with revisions in the same ink. Pinholes mostly in center. The original title was "Leaflet," and the original number seems to have been 70. After substantial revision (including the addition of the new first line "A promise and gift to California,") this poem became section 30 of "Calamus" in 1860. Whitman further revised the poem before including it, permanently retitled "A Promise to California," in the 1867 Leaves. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Proudly the Flood Comes In Whitman Archive ID: yal.00052 Title:  [Proudly the flood comes in] Date: about 1885 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a draft of "Proudly the Flood Comes In," published as part of "Fancies at Navesink" in the magazine, Nineteenth Century, in August 1885. The verso of this manuscript is an advertisement for Whitman's book, Drum-Taps. This manuscript is bound with others under the title, "Fancies at Navesink." Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Proud Music of the Storm Whitman Archive ID: duk.00045 Title:  [Theme for piece] Date: about 1869 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  An outline for a poem on various types of music, potentially related to "Proud Music of the Storm" and/or "The Mystic Trumpeter." The poem "The Mystic Trumpeter" was first published in The Kansas Magazine of February 1872. "Proud Music of the Storm" was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in February, 1869. The verso contains cancelled notes about a stanza to describe a triumphal instrumental and vocal chorus corresponding to that of man triumphing over temptation and weakness. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: tex.00063 Title:  Proud Music of the Sea-Storm Date: about 1869 Physical Description: 9 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  Content:  Printer's copy of "Proud Music of the Sea-Storm," published in The Atlantic Monthly in February 1869. In subsequent book publications, the title was altered to "Proud Music of the Storm." Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Whitman Archive ID: tex.00102 Title:  Proud Music of the Sea-Storm, Date: undated Physical Description: 1 leaf, folio proof View Images:  1  Content:  Folio proof of "Proud Music of the Sea-Storm" with the handwritten addition "Atlantic Monthly, February." Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Whitman Archive ID: duk.00046 Title:  Proud Music of the Storm Date: about 1869 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Correction notes and potential extra lines for the poem "Proud Music of the Storm," first published in The Atlantic Monthly 1869 as "Proud Music of the Sea-Storm." Subsequently, the poem was titled " Proud Music of the Storm" in Passage to India (1871), Two Rivulets (1876), and in Leaves of Grass (1881-1882). The verso contains the beginning of a letter on Attorney General's Office stationery. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library

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Queries to My Seventieth Year Whitman Archive ID: loc.00014 Title:  [Here fretful] Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 23 x 20 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  One page draft written in pencil on a sheet of coarse paper, with a notation in another hand at the very bottom ("297—Doubleday Queries to 70th Year"). The lines were revised and published as "Queries to My Seventieth Year" in 1888. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00217 Title:  My Seventieth Year Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Draft of a poem later revised and published under the title "Queries to My Seventieth Year" in 1888. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: hun.00011 Title:  To My Seventieth Year Date: ca. 1889 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a draft entitled "To My Seventieth Year." The poem was first published as "Queries to My Seventieth Year" in 1888. Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

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Quicksand Years Whitman Archive ID: loc.00323 Title:  Whispers of Heavenly Death Date: about 1870 Physical Description: 15 leaves, 20 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  Content:  Mostly mounted clippings of poems taken from Leaves of Grass, stitched and tied with ribbon by Walt Whitman. An autograph title page is followed by pages numbered in red pencil 469-484. One poem, "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," on p. 481 is written entirely in Walt Whitman's hand, and other corrections and additions are in Whitman's hand throughout. The poems included are: "Whispers of Heavenly Death," "Yet, Yet Ye Downcast Hours," "As Nearing Departure" (later published, in a different form, as "As the Time Draws Nigh"), "Darest Thou Now O Soul," "Of Him I Love Day and Night," "Quicksand Years That Whirl Me I Know Not Whither" (later published as "Quicksand Years"), "That Music Always Round Me," "As If a Phantom Caress'd Me," "O Living Always, Always Dying," "Here, Sailor!" (later published as "What Ship Puzzled at Sea"), "A Noiseless Patient Spider," "To One Shortly to Die," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," "This Day, O Soul," "What Place is Besieged?," "The Last Invocation," and "Pensive and Faltering." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Recorders Ages Hence Whitman Archive ID: duk.00278 Title:  [In a poem make the thought] Date: 1860 or before Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Note for a poem to address the question "What will be the result of this years hence?" Possibly related to the poem "Recorders Ages Hence," first published in 1860 as "Calamus 10." This scrap has been attached by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with "[And there, farther south]," "The Scout," and "Drops of my Blood." Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library

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Return of the Heroes, The Title:  "A Carol of Harvest, for 1867" Date: 1867 Content:  Three printed copies of "A Carol of Harvest, for 1867" with assorted other pages from The Galaxy. This poem was later published as "The Return of the Heroes." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: uva.00129 Title:  A Carol of Harvest, for 1867 Date: 1867 Physical Description: 29 leaves, 19.5 x 12.5, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  |  31  |  32  |  33  |  34  |  35  |  36  Content:  The poem "A Carol of Harvest for 1867" was published first in The Galaxy, September 1867, and reprinted one month later in Tinsely's Magazine (London). A revised version of the poem was added to Passage to India (1871). The 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass includes a further revised version entitled "The Return of the Heroes". These manuscript pages were likely revised prior to the poem's first publication. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Riddle Song, A Whitman Archive ID: loc.00015 Title:  A Riddle Song Date: 1880 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 22 x 12 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  A draft of the first five lines of "A Riddle Song," first published in 1880. The draft is written in ink on a gray piece (now brown) made by pasting two smaller pieces together, on which is pasted a third slip. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00290 Title:  A Riddle Song Date: about 1880 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Proof sheet of "A Riddle Song," first published in 1880, with corrections in Whitman's hand. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: tex.00097 Title:  A Riddle Song Date: 1880 Physical Description: 1 leaf, newspaper clipping View Images:  1  Content:  Clipping of the poem "A Riddle Song" from an unidentified newspaper. The reference to the Tarrytown Sunnyside Press in the right hand corner probably means that this is a reprint from the newspaper in which Whitman's poem first appeared. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Whitman Archive ID: tex.00027 Title:  A Riddle Song, Date: 1880 Physical Description: 1 leaf, proof with annotation View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Proof with handwritten addition. "A Riddle Song" first appeared in the Tarrytown Sunnyside Press on 3 April 1880. It was reprinted in Forney’s Progress (Philadelphia) 2 (17 April 1880): 508, and then included in the (1881–1882) edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Title:  "The Dalliance of the Eagles" Date: about 1880 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 25.8 x 18.6 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Written in ink on a proof of "The Dalliance of the Eagles," "Ah, little knows the Laborer," "Hast never come to thee an hour?,"and "My Picture-Gallery," are 14 words of notations in Whitman's hand. The proof has been pasted to a heavy piece of paper, on the verso of which is "A Riddle Song," part of "Italian Music in Dakota," and a clipped headline reading "The Society Articles Save Labor. Lighten the Labor for Mother." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps Whitman Archive ID: yal.00009 Title:  [I cross'd the Nevadas] Date: about 1865 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  These six lines make up a draft of "Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps," which was published in Drum-Taps in 1865. Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone Whitman Archive ID: uva.00308 Title:  Buds Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21.5 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On pink leaf (21.5 x 13 cm), in black ink, with minor revisions in the same ink.A few pinholes at top and near center. A pencil question mark appears in parentheses in the upper-right corner. The number 52 appears to have been revised from 51. After adding several verses, Whitman designated this poem section 13 of "Calamus" in the 1860 Leaves, and, after dropping the first two and last three lines of the 1860 version, permanently retitled it "Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone" in 1867. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete, The Whitman Archive ID: loc.00291 Title:  The endless Catalogue Divine Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 25 x 19.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  A badly stained draft of a poem published as "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete" in 1891. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00017 Title:  The real earthly catalogue divine, 'complete' Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of a poem published as "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete" in 1891, written in ink on a similar piece of paper as the item above, with a discarded envelope (addressed to Miss Olive Percival, 214 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA) opened out and pasted to the bottom of the piece, and some corrections in pencil, blue pencil, and red ink. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Runner, The Whitman Archive ID: tex.00042 Title:  Pictures Date: about 1865 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Poetry manuscript titled "Pictures," approximately six lines, heavily revised. The first few lines of this manuscript appeared, further revised, in "The Runner," first published in the 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass. The middle section of the manuscript is possibly related to "Song of the Banner at Daybreak," which was first published in 1865 in Drum-Taps. A different version of last two lines of the manuscript appear in another poetry draft, also titled "Pictures," that Whitman wrote in a notebook now in Yale University's Beinecke Library. The first several lines of the notebook draft were revised and published as "My Picture-Gallery" in The American in October 1880. The verso of the leaf has about five lines of handwriting beginning with "Lilac Times." Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Whitman Archive ID: uva.00103 Title:  Poem of Fables Date: 1850s Physical Description: 1 leaf, 20 x 12 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Two sets of deleted verses constitute adaptations of lines from Whitman's pre-1855 unpublished notebook "Pictures" "Now this is the fable of the mirror" and "And Now this is the fable of a beautiful statue." Two other deleted potential fables ideas also appear: "The trained runner" and "The five old men." At the foot of the leaf appears the note "last piece (still another Death Song— Death Song with prophecies." All of the sections are demarcated with horizontal lines. Based on Whitman's use of the tax blank, the manuscript appears to be a set of notes he made between 1857 and 1859 while preparing the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. The "Poem of Fables" as such never materialized, but a poem simply titled "Fables" was incorporated into the second section of the poem "Passage to India", first published in 1871. Whitman's "Pictures" were not published in their entirety until 1925. Whitman uses the phrase "well-train'd runner" in "The Runner", a poem which first appeared in Leaves of Grass in 1867. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Sail Out for Good, Eidlon Yacht! Whitman Archive ID: uva.00106 Title:  [But outset and sure] Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 17.5 x 21.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript contains trial verses for the poem "Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht!," first published in the March 1891 issue of Lippincott's Magazine in a group titled "Old-Age Echoes". The top part of this manuscript has been cut away, leaving the emendations to what would become line 5 of the poem only partly visible. Whitman grouped "Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht!" in his "Second Annex," titled "Good-Bye My Fancy", to the 1891 edition of Leaves of Grass. The pencil note "Sail Out for good, Eidólon Yacht / Good Bye My Fancy / Page 7" appears in the lower left corner, below two new drafts of the ending lines. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: loc.00018 Title:  [casts off her moorings] Date: about 1890 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Trial lines for "Sail Out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!," which was published first in 1891. On the verso is a letter from Harry C. Kochersperger dated June 27, 1890. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old Age Echoes" Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 68.5 x 16.5 cm Images: forthcoming Content:  Galley Proof of four poems under the general title "Old Age Echoes": "Sounds of the Winter," "The Unexpress'd," "Sail Out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!," and "After the Argument." This grouping was published in March, 1891 in Lippincott's Magazine. A note in Traubel's hand appears at the top of the page. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old Age Echoes" Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 25 x 16.75 cm Images: forthcoming Content:  Offprint from the March, 1891 issue of Lippincott's Magazine of four poems under the general title "Old Age Echoes": "Sounds of the Winter," "The Unexpress'd," "Sail Out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!," and "After the Argument." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old Age Echoes" Date: March, 1891 Content:  Copy of the March, 1891 issue of Lippincott's Magazine with four Whitman poems under the general title "Old Age Echoes": "Sounds of the Winter," "The Unexpress'd," "Sail Out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!," and "After the Argument." Also published in this issue are a full page portrait of Whitman, Whitman's "Some Personal and Old-Age Memoranda" (later published as "Some Personal and Old Age Jottings"), Traubel's "Walt Whitman: Poet and Philosopher and Man," and a review of Whitman's book, November Boughs. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old Age Echoes" Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28.5 x 16.5 cm, 6 x 14 cm attached, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Proof sheet of "Old Age Echoes" with many corrections written in ink, red ink, and pencil. "Old Age Echoes" is a general heading for four poems: "Sounds of the Winter," "The Unexpress'd," "Sail Out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!," and "After the Argument." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00229 Title:  Old Age Recitatives Date: about 1890 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 30 x 20 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Draft titled "Old Age Recitatives" written on the verso of an envelope and a letter (author unknown) stuck together. Beneath the main title and Whitman's signature is another title, "Sail out for good, Eidolon yacht!" The text of the poem is identical to the published version of "Sail Out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!", first published in 1891. Whitman has written a note about Arena magazine's rejection of the poem in the top right margin. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old-Age Recitatives" Date: between 1890-1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 30.5 x 16 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  A galley proof of a group of six poems titled "Old-Age Recitatives." The poems included are: "Sail out for good, Eidolon yacht!" (first published in 1891), "My task" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891), "L. of G.'s Purport" (only the first two lines of the poem of the same title published in 1891), "Death dogs my steps" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891), "For us two, reader dear" (first published in 1891), and "Grand is the seen" (first published in 1891). On the verso is a note to printer. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old-Age Recitatives" Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 28 x 21 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Proof pages of six poems collected under the general title "Old-Age Recitatives." The poems included are: "Old Chants" (first published in 1891), "On, On the Same,Ye Jocund Twain!" (first published in 1891), "Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht!" (first published in 1891), "L. of G.'s Purport" (only two lines of the twelve-line poem of the same title first published in 1891), "My task" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891), and "For us two, reader dear" (first published in 1891). At the top of the first page is a note to the printer in Whitman's hand. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old-Age Recitatives" Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 2 leaves Images: forthcoming Content:  Two proofs of a group of six poems titled "Old-Age Recitatives." The poems included are: "Sail Out for Good, Eidólon yacht!" (first published in 1891), "My task" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891), "L. of G.'s Purport" (only the first two lines of the poem of the same title published in 1891), "Death dogs my steps" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891), "For us two, reader dear" (first published in 1891), and "Grand is the seen" (first published in 1891). Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00040 Title:  Sail forth O mystic yacht of me Date: about 1890 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Trial lines for "Sail Out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!," which was published first in 1891. On part of the page is prose that appears to be a journal entry. The rest, though, is dedicated to a draft of the poem, with the title written half way down the page: "Sail forth O mystic yacht of me." On the verso is written "Walt Whitman, July 30 1890" twice. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: tex.00067 Title:  Sail out for good, Eidólon Yacht, Date: 1890 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Heavily revised draft, nine lines, of "Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht!" which was first published in Lippincott's Magazine in March 1891. Whitman's note at the bottom calls the manuscript "rough crude outlines" and dates it "July 25 1890."The poem was reprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891). The manuscript is bound with a letter to Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1878, 3pp (verso: letter from Berry Young, nd, 1p, and letter from Richard M. Bucke, nd, 1p). Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Whitman Archive ID: loc.00041 Title:  Sail out for Good Eidolon yacht Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Note regarding "Sail Out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!," which was published first in 1891. Written on this small white sheet are the title of the poem ("Sail out for good Eidolon yacht") and trial phrases for what appears to be a subtitle. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: bos.00003 Title:  Sail out O mystic yacht Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a heavily revised draft of "Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht!" The poem was first published in Lippincott's Magazine in 1891 with "Sounds of the Winter," "The Unexpress'd," and "After the Argument" under the general title "Old-Age Echoes." The manuscript leaf is made from two scraps pasted together, one of them an envelope addressed to Whitman, bearing several postmarks from June 1890. Repository: From the The Alice and Rollo G. Silver Collection in the Special Collections at Boston University

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Salut au Monde! Whitman Archive ID: duk.00030 Title:  [a nation announcing itself] Date: about 1856 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A manuscript draft of the opening passage of "Poem of Many in One" (1856). The final title of the poem, "By Blue Ontario's Shore," first appeared in the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. On the verso is both prose and verse beginning "Asia" that appears to be a draft of "Salut Au Monde!," a poem first published as "Poem of Salutation" in the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00305 Title:  [And as the shores of the sea I live near and love are to me] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 13 x 14.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  These two verses represent a draft of lines that would be further revised and incorporated in the new 1856 poem "Poem of Salutation," permanently retitled "Salut au Monde!" in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.. A plate mark can be clearly seen on the verso. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: duk.00275 Title:  [And there, farther south] Date: undated Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Fragment describing a "negro at daylight" giving "the Carolina yell," possibly related to the poem first published in 1856 as "Poem of Salutation" and later titled "Salut Au Monde!" This scrap has been attached by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with "The Scout," "Drops of my Blood," and "[In a poem make the thought]." Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Title:  "[George Walker]" Date: between 1855-1856 Physical Description: handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  A notebook Whitman used for various purposes in the mid-1850s. Edward F. Grier, in his edition of Whitman's Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984. 6 vols), noted that the notebook contains lines and phrases that relate to several poems: "Song of the Broad-Axe," "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Starting from Paumanok," "A Song for Occupations," "By Blue Ontario's Shore," "Salut au Monde!," "To One Shortly to Die," and "A Woman Waits for Me." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: uva.00010 Title:  [The circus boy is riding in the] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 10.5 x 14 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The verso lines (beginning with the individually deleted line "O Walt Whitman, show us some pictures!" and continuing "America, always Pictorial!") represent a later draft of the beginning of the poem "Pictures" than the most complete extant version, which is contained in the pre-1855 "Pictures" notebook currently housed at Yale University. Critics have dated the lines to around 1880, when Whitman was working on a short version of "Pictures" both for magazine publication and for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass, where it was published as "My Picture-Gallery." But Whitman's early style of inscription in this draft, along with the line "It is round—it has room for America, north and south" and his use of his own name in the deleted first line, all suggest that Whitman may have inscribed this draft around the same time that he was working on the new 1856 "Poem of Salutations" (eventually "Salut au Monde!"). This draft also suggests that at one point he may have considered linking what would become "Poem of Salutations" and the formally and thematically similar "Pictures" more directly. The lines on the recto, divided by a horizontal line, refer to images of a circus boy on a fleet horse and of watching those on a shore disappear. The relationship between either of these lines and Whitman's published works is unclear. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: duk.00254 Title:  [To the English] Date: 1860 or before Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Ideas for a poem about various nationalities and ethnicities, suggestive of "Salut au Monde!" which was first published as "Poem of Salutation" in 1860. This scrap has been attached by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with "—[Poem of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois]." Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: duk.00200 Title:  Africa Date: 1856 or before Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Notes on Africa. Whitman used some of the place names and a version of one of the phrases here ("The fresh-sunned Mediterranean, and from one to another of its islands") in the 1856 "Poem of Salutation," which was eventually titled "Salut au Monde!" Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00304 Title:  Europe Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 16 x 14 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The recto notes represent an early stage of lines partially incorporated in "Poem of Salutation," the new third poem in the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass, which was permanently retitled "Salut au Monde!" in the 1860 edition. If the note or title "Europe" suggests that Whitman might have first intended to divide his salutations into discrete sections based on the different continents, this is a plan he did not follow in the published version(s). The more polished (but deleted) lines on the verso represent a recasting in poetic form of several lines from the 1855 Preface. These were further revised for the 1856 "Poem of Many in One," after which the first verse drafted on this page (cut off here, and beginning "over the Texan, Mexican, Florid[ian,]/ Cuban seas...") was dropped. The two verses below this, however, were preserved relatively unchanged through the poem's many transformations until the text was essentially fixed under the title "By Blue Ontario's Shore" in 1881. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00289 Title:  Poem of Pictures Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 6.5 x 15.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A phrase beginning "Picture of one of/ the Greek games" appears in the upper right corner, delimited from the rest of the notes with two curved lines. The words "Spanish bull fight" appear in their own semicircle (damaged by Whitman's cutting) in the lower right corner. The lines seem to occupy a middle space between the very early notebook poem "Pictures" and the 1856 "Poem of Salutation" (ultimately "Salut au Monde!"). Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: duk.00285 Title:  Poem of Young Men Date: 1860 or before Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Manuscript with ideas for a poem, possibly "Salut Au Monde!" which was first published in 1860 as "Poem of Salutation." This scrap has been attached by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with "Companions." Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: loc.00292 Title:  Salut Au Monde Date: undated Physical Description: 7 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  Content:  Leather bound and heavily corrected proof of "Salut Au Monde!" with a portrait of Whitman and a title page reading "Salut Au Monde, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof." This poem was also published under the title "Poem of Salutation." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Savantism Whitman Archive ID: uva.00226 Title:  Savantism Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Originally numbered 52 and revised by overwriting to 53. Ungrouped in the 1860 and 1867 Leaves of Grass, the poem "Savantism" was transferred to Passage to India in 1871 and from there to "Leaves of Grass" groups in the "Passage to India" annexes of the 1872 Leaves of Grass and the 1876 Two Rivulets. From there it was moved, finally (in 1881), to the "Inscriptions" cluster within the main body of Leaves of Grass. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Says Whitman Archive ID: uva.00227 Title:  Says Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21 x 12.5 cm to 21.5 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  These manuscript lines were revised to form numbered sections 1 through 4 of the ungrouped poem "Says" in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. Whitman cut four verse paragraphs from the poem in the 1867 Leaves of Grass version; from that point on the shortened poem appeared, ungrouped, under the title "Suggestions" until its final appearance in 1876. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00228 Title:  Says Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 12.5 cm to 21.5 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  These manuscript lines were revised to form numbered section 5 of the ungrouped poem "Says" in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. Whitman cut four verse paragraphs in the 1867 Leaves of Grass version; from that point on the shortened poem appeared, ungrouped, under the title "Suggestions" until its final appearance in 1876. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00229 Title:  Says Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 12.5 cm to 21.5 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  These manuscript lines were revised to form numbered section 6 of the ungrouped poem "Says" in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. Whitman cut four verse paragraphs in the 1867 Leaves of Grass version; from that point on the shortened poem appeared, ungrouped, under the title "Suggestions" until its final appearance in 1876. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00230 Title:  Says Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 12.5 cm to 21.5 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  These manuscript lines were revised to form numbered section 7 of the ungrouped poem "Says" in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. Whitman cut four verse paragraphs in the 1867 Leaves of Grass version; from that point on the shortened poem appeared, ungrouped, under the title "Suggestions" until its final appearance in 1876. The cancelled lines on the top section of the manuscript appear to be a draft of lines that were never published but that bear great resemblance to the various "Thoughts" and "Thought (Of . . .)" poems Whitman published throughout the many editions of Leaves of Grass. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Scented Herbage of My Breast Whitman Archive ID: uva.00243 Title:  [I do not know whether] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 5 leaves, 20 x 16 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  Content:  The verses on the recto became lines 6-40 of section 2 of "Calamus" in the 1860 edition. Section 2 of the Calamus group was permanently retitled "Scented Herbage of my Breast" in 1867. On the verso appears a draft of an editorial, "Important Questions in Brooklyn.—," which Whitman apparently never published but which seems to have inspired at least two published editorials on the Brooklyn Water Works and the political quarrels surrounding control of the project. The editorials appeared in the Brooklyn Times of March 15 and 16, 1859. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00246 Title:  [Was it I who walked the] Scented Herbage of My Breast Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf that folds out, 21.5 x 16 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  Content:  These leaves comprise two sections of a poem inscribed (with very few alterations) on the first and third sides of a folded half-sheet of paper. On the first side of the folded leaf a blue pencil was used to correct a pencil number 7 to a 1, and on the third side the blue pencil corrected a pencil 8 to a 2. The five verses beginning "Was it I who walked the / earth..." were not used in "Calamus," but the five lines beginning "Scented herbage of my breast" became the opening verses of section 2 of the cluster in the 1860 Leaves of Grass. In the 1867 and later editions the first line was used as the title of the poem. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Sea-Drift Whitman Archive ID: uva.00135 Title:  Sea-Drift Date:  Physical Description: 20 leaves, 20 cm x 12 cm, corrected proofs View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  |  31  |  32  |  33  |  34  |  35  |  36  |  37  |  38  |  39  |  40  Content:  Revision of poem cluster originally titled "Sea-Shore Memories" contained in red bound volume measuring 26 cm x 18 cm. Revisions are made in ink and pencil on printed edition of the poem. WW apparently used two volumes to tear the leaves from, as every other page is slightly smaller than the rest; revisions are made only on the recto side of each leaf, verso is crossed out. Several leaves are cut apart and pasted in new order on other leaves or on lined paper. Leaf 8 is a handwritten MS. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Second Annex: Good-Bye my Fancy Title:  Good-Bye My Fancy Date: 1891 Physical Description: handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Corrected second proof sheets of Good-Bye My Fancy, 2d Annex to Leaves of Grass published by David McKay in Philadelphia, 1891. The corrections throughout are in Whitman's hand and mostly concern typographical errors, punctuation and spelling changes, and directions for the printer. The poems included are: "Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht!," "Lingering Last Drops," "Good-bye My Fancy," "On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!," "My 71st Year," "Apparitions," "The Pallid Wreath," "An Ended Day," "Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's," "To the Pending Year," "Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher," "Long, Long Hence," "Bravo, Paris Exposition!," "Interpolation Sounds," "To the Sun-Set Breeze," "Old Chants," "As in a Swoon," "L. of G.," "After the Argument," and "For Us Two, Reader Dear." Also included are several prose pieces. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  Good-Bye My Fancy Date: 1891 Physical Description: handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Corrected first proof sheets of Good-Bye My Fancy, 2d Annex to Leaves of Grass published by David McKay in Philadelphia, 1891. The corrections throughout are in Whitman's hand and mostly concern typographical errors, punctuation and spelling changes, and directions for the printer. The poems included are: "Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht!," "Lingering Last Drops," "Good-bye My Fancy," "On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!," "My 71st Year," "Apparitions," "The Pallid Wreath," "An Ended Day," "Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's," "To the Pending Year," "Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher," "Long, Long Hence," "Bravo, Paris Exposition!," "Interpolation Sounds," "To the Sun-Set Breeze," "Old Chants," "A Christmas Greeting," "Sounds of the Winter," "A Twilight Song," "When the Full-grown Poet Came," "Osceola," "A Voice from Death," "A Persian Lesson," "The Commonplace," "'The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete,'" "Mirages," "L. of G.'s Purport," "The Unexpress'd," "Grand is the Seen," "Unseen Buds," "Good-bye My Fancy!," "For Queen Victoria's Birthday," "After an Interval," "As in a Swoon," "L. of G.," "After the Argument," "Ship Ahoy!," and "For Us Two, Reader Dear." Also included are several prose pieces. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher Whitman Archive ID: tex.00083 Title:  Shakespeare-Bacon's Cipher Date: undated Physical Description: 1 leaf, Proofs with handwritten corrections View Images:  1  Content:  Proofs with handwritten corrections. The poem first appeared as "Shakespeare Bacon's Cipher" in The Cosmopolitan 4 (October 1887): 142. It was reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) under the title "Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher." Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Whitman Archive ID: tex.00084 Title:  Shakespeare-Bacon's Cipher Date: undated Physical Description: 1 leaf, Proofs with handwritten corrections and additions View Images:  1  Content:  Proofs with handwritten corrections and additions. The poem first appeared as "Shakespeare Bacon's Cipher" in The Cosmopolitan 4 (October 1887): 142. It was reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) under the title "Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher." Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Whitman Archive ID: tem.00001 Title:  Shakspere's Cipher Date: ca. 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Lightly corrected draft of "Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher" which was published first in 1891. Repository: Rare Books and Manuscripts, Special Collections, Temple University Libraries, Temple University Whitman Archive ID: loc.00294 Title:  Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher Date: about 1887 Physical Description: 3 p., 15 x 14.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  Four copies of a proof of "Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher," which was published first in 1887. One of the proofs has several corrections in Whitman's hand, the other three only have one correction each. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: tem.00003 Title:  Shakspere—Bacon's Cipher Date: ca. 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, proof with handwritten correction View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Printed proof of "Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher", which was published first in 1891, with a handwritten correction. Repository: Rare Books and Manuscripts, Special Collections, Temple University Libraries, Temple University Whitman Archive ID: loc.00220 Title:  The Mystic Cipher Date: 1887 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 9.5 x 21.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of a poem later revised and published as "Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher" in 1887. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Ship Ahoy! Whitman Archive ID: aas.00001 Title:  Ship Ahoy! Date: January 2, 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a late draft of "Ship Ahoy!," first published in Youth's Companion on March 12, 1891. The draft is relatively clean, though there are some differences between this manuscript and the published poem. On the verso of the manuscript is a cancelled letter to Whitman from William S. Ingram, dated December 24, 1890. Repository: Bolton-Stanwood Family Papers, American Antiquarian Society Title:  "Ship Ahoy!" Date: between 1891-1892 Physical Description: 1 leaf Images: forthcoming Content:  Two proof pages, with several notes by Traubel in the margins. The poems included on the pages are: "Ship Ahoy!","Death's Valley," "For us two, reader dear," and "For Queen Victoria's Birthday." "Death's Valley" was first published in 1892; the other poems were published first in 1891. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Singer in the Prison, The Whitman Archive ID: hun.00010 Title:  The Singer in the Prison Date: ca. 1869 Physical Description: 4 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  Content:  This is draft of "The Singer in the Prison," a poem first published in 1869. Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Whitman Archive ID: ucb.00001 Title:  The Singer in the Prison. Date: ca. 1875 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A corrected proof of the poem "The Singer in the Prison". Notes in pencil indicate Whitman was thinking of a potential connection with Parepa Rosa, a famous nineteenth-century opera singer. The verso contains prose notes about horses. Repository: The Livezey-Walt Whitman Collection, Rare Books and Special Collections, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley Title:  "The Whale Chase" Date: 1869 Content:  Proof sheets of several poems: "The Whale Chase" (published as a part of "A Song of Joys"), "The Singer in Prison", first published in 1869, "A Word Out of the Sea" (first published as "A Child's Reminiscence" in 1859 and finally as "Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking"), and five poems which are not Whitman's: part of "The Passions" (by William Collins), part of "The Battle of Naseby" (by Thomas Babbington Macaulay), "The Midnight Visitor" (probably a translation of "La Ballade du Desespere" by Henri Murger), "John Anderson My Jo" (by Robert Burns), and "The Bridge of Sighs" (by Thomas Hood). There are no annotations on the sheets. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Sleepers, The Whitman Archive ID: tex.00030 Title:  [become a shroud] | [off, dim and filmy in their outlines] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one side of this manuscript leaf are approximately seven lines, lightly revised, of the poem eventually titled "The Sleepers," first published in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. On the other side is a prose fragment, showing moderate revision, of approximately 150 words. Phrases and ideas from this manuscript were incorporated in the poem "Unnamed Lands," first published in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Whitman Archive ID: uva.00257 Title:  [Black Lucifer was not dead] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 10.5 x 19.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The deleted first line reads "I am a hell-name and a Curse..." The word "Sleepchaser's" appears in the upper right corner, perhaps indicating that Whitman was considering a title similar to the 1860 and 1867 title "Sleep-Chasings" even before the poem was first published in 1855, unless this is in fact a reworking of the section for the 1860 edition. The possibility of a post-1855 dating, however, appears to be slight given the similarities of paper choice and inscription techniques among other leaves and shared similarities to drafts in the earliest Library of Congress notebook. The poem "Sleep-Chasings" eventually became "The Sleepers" in 1871. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00256 Title:  [I am a curse] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 18.5 x 17.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  One leaf inscribed and revised on both sides in pencil. The trial lines on the verso (beginning "His very aches are exstasy") seem to have been revised for inclusion in what is now section 29 of "Song of Myself." Whitman's unusual spelling of "ecstasy" indicates not only that the lines came very early in the process of writing Leaves of Grass, but that these lines may have originally been part of the proto-"Song of Myself" before being transferred to what would become "The Sleepers." The verso lines and the words "I am a curse" link this leaf to two sections of draft verses in the earliest Library of Congress notebook (#80) beginning "Fierce wrestler!" and "I am a curse." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00260 Title:  [The sores on my shoulders are from his] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 8 x 15 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Inscribed, revised, and deleted in pencil. On the verso appear the undeleted lines "Hear my fife! —I am a recruiter / Come, who will join my troop?" Scholars have recorded these lines as a version of the lines ("And now a merry recruiter passes, with fife and drum, seeking who will / join his troop...") in the pre-1855 notebook poem "Pictures." The image of the musician recruiting attention equally for the problems of all connects these lines with section 18 of "Song of Myself." Although the manuscript contains the phrase "iron necklace," which appears in the poem eventually titled "To A Foil'd European Revolutionaire", the image of the steamboat carrying away the woman and the first person narrative style seem to connect this manuscript most clearly to the development of what would eventually become section 4 of "The Sleepers" first appearing in print with this title in 1871. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00258 Title:  [Topple down upon him] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 15.5 x 19 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This leaf, a reworking of the lines beginning "I am a Curse" in Library of Congress notebook #80, with verses added from the manuscript also in the University of Virgina collection that begins "I am a curse", appears to have come later in the revision process. The only line specifically linking the poem to the theme of slavery ("I look off the river with my bloodshot eyes, after / the steamboat that carries away my woman.—"), adapted from the "I am a curse" leaf, is deleted, and Whitman apparently rejected these lines and the "curse" theme in general as he moved toward the draft on the leaf in the Virgina collection that begins "I am a hell-name and a Curse...", which would eventuate in the 1855 published version. On the verso appear two sets of trial verses for what would eventually become the second verse paragraph of section 4 of the poem "Faces," which in 1855 was published as the sixth of twelve poems in the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: duk.00258 Title:  Poem [As in Visions of] Date: 1855 or before Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Notes for a poem about night "visions," possibly related to the untitled 1855 poem that Whitman eventually titled "The Sleepers." Fragments of an unidentified newspaper clipping about the Puget Sound area have been pasted to the leaf. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: loc.00295 Title:  The Sleepers Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 12 leaves, 11.5 x 20.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  Content:  A bound copy of corrected pages of "The Sleepers"from the 1876 edition of Leaves of Grass. The corrections are written in ink, purple ink (faded red?) and blue pencil on every page and are for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. There is a portrait of Whitman opposite a title page reading "Sleepers, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Small the Theme of My Chant Whitman Archive ID: dar.00001 Title:  [The Epos of a Life] Date: about 1867 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  This draft is related to "Inscription," the prefatory poem of the 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass, which was later revised as "Small the Theme of My Chant." The smaller leaf, bearing a revised first line, was formerly pasted to the larger leaf. Other manuscripts held at the Library of Congress (Charles E. Feinberg Collection) and the New York Public Library (Oscar Lion Collection) open with the same revised line, though the published poem does not. Repository: The Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College Whitman Archive ID: uva.00060 Title:  Inscription Date: between 1855 and 1867 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 19.5 x 12.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript entitled "Inscription" appears to be a revision of other "Inscriptions" Whitman gathered in a notebook, along with prose drafts for a never-finished introduction to Leaves of Grass, and attached to his copy of the 1855 paper-bound edition. (The entire collection of draft "inscription" and introductory material is currently housed at the New York Public Library.) In the 1867 Leaves of Grass Whitman culled material from this poem and the other "Inscription" poems to create an italicized "Inscription" that he placed before "Starting from Paumanok" at the beginning of the book; in that edition he also transferred part of verse 2 to "As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shore" (later the line was dropped and the title was revised to "By Blue Ontario's Shore"). From 1872 onward, this poem, revised and retitled "One's-Self I Sing," was printed as the first of several poems in the "Inscriptions" cluster that opened the book. In the 1888 November Boughs, however, Whitman reprinted the 1867 version as "Small the Theme of my Chant." Note: This manuscript draft may have been written before the Civil War, since it does not include the 1867 line "My Days I sing, and the Lands—with interstice I knew / of hapless War." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: yal.00010 Title:  Inscription: to the 4th Edition of Leaves of Grass Date: about 1867 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a draft of the poem, "Inscription," which appeared in the 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass. The poem was later revised and published as "One's-Self I Sing." In the 1892 edition of Leaves of Grass, lines from the poem from this manuscript appear in both "One's-Self I Sing" and "Small the Theme of My Chant." Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Sobbing of the Bells, The Whitman Archive ID: loc.00020 Title:  The Sobbing of the Bells Date: 1881 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Draft of "The Sobbing of the Bells," first published in the Boston Daily Globe on September 27, 1881. On the verso is prose in Whitman's hand. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00022 Title:  The Sobbing of the Bells Date: 1881 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Draft of "The Sobbing of the Bells," first published in 1881. This clean draft is encased in mylar with five other clippings and descriptive cards. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00021 Title:  The Sobbing of the Bells Date: 1881 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Draft of "The Sobbing of the Bells," first published in 1881. On the verso is a letter from an unknown writer; the paper has been cut up and pasted together. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00075 Title:  The Sobbing of the Bells Date: 1881 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Draft fragment of the poem "The Sobbing of the Bells," unsigned and dated midnight, Sept. 19-20, 1881. There are crossed out lines on the recto and a note at the top to Mr. Clarke regarding the setup and proof. The poem relates to the death of President James Garfield and was first published in the Boston Daily Globe on September 27, 1881. Repository: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library

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So Long! Whitman Archive ID: uva.00275 Title:  [To this continent comes the] Date: 1856-1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 10 x 13 cm pasted to 5 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  These lines share common ideas expressed throughout Leaves of Grass, especially in many of the new poems to the 1860 edition. The strongest verbal echoes appear in the poem "So long!" which expresses very similar ideas and the common words "menacing" and "offspring." The printed words "Leaves of" appearing on the verso indicate that Whitman composed this draft on a piece of paper cover from the 1855 edition. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00232 Title:  So Long! Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 9 leaves, 15 x 9 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  Content:  Whitman numbered the leaves 75-81 in the upper right corner, with the exception of leaves 6 and 7, which are numbered at top center. In 1860 this was the final poem in Leaves of Grass; in 1867 Whitman cut twenty-one lines and transferred it to the end of the last Leaves of Grass supplement "Songs of Parting." In 1872, with the transformation of this supplement into the cluster "Songs Before Parting," it was permanently fixed as the final poem in the main body of Leaves of Grass. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: loc.00298 Title:  Songs of Parting Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 18 leaves with handwritten annotations, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  Content:  Bound proofs of Whitman's cluster "Songs of Parting," containing 17 poems. Opposite a portrait of Whitman, the title page reads, "Songs of Parting, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof." These corrections were probably for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. The 17 poems included are: "As the Time Draws Nigh," "Ashes of Soldiers," "Years of the Modern," "Thoughts," "Song at Sunset," "My Legacy," "Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All," "Camps of Green," "Bathed in War's Perfume," "Now Finalé to the Shore," "As they Draw to a Close," "The Untold Want," "Portals," "These Carols," "To the Reader at Parting," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," and "So Long." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: uva.00189 Title:  Thought [Of these years I sing] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, leaf 1 21.5 x 13 cm, leaf 2 18.5 x 12.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  Whitman inscribed and circled the note "2d/ piece/ in Book" in the upper-right corner of the first leaf. The small top section is inscribed on the verso of some deleted draft verses excised from "So Long!". "Thought" became section 9 of "Chants Democratic" in 1860. In the 1867 Leaves of Grass Whitman combined it with the second "Thought" to form the poem "Thoughts" in the supplement "Songs Before Parting." (This particular "Thought" was numbered section 1 of the composite poem.) In 1871 "Thoughts" appeared in the cluster "Songs of Parting" within the main body of Leaves of Grass, and in 1881, it achieved its final position within that cluster. These leaves correspond to the verses in the 1860 "Chants Democratic" version. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Sometimes with One I Love Whitman Archive ID: uva.00328 Title:  [Sometimes] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 15 x 9.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one leaf of white wove paper (15 x 9.5 cm), in light brown ink, with one revision in the same ink. Pinholes at top and in center. A blue pencil mark, possibly the number 4, has been inscribed in the upper right corner. Bowers notes that the page bears the imprint of a papermaker's lozenge die, perhaps that of Platner and Smith of Lee, Massachusetts. This poem became section 39 of "Calamus" in 1860; in 1867 Whitman replaced the third line with a new one and permanently retitled the poem "Sometimes with One I Love." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Song at Sunset Whitman Archive ID: uva.00188 Title:  A Sunset Carol Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 6 leaves, leaf 1 25.5 x 12.5 cm, leaves 2-6 21.5 x 12.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  Content:  Whitman numbered each of the six leaves, in pencil, in the upper right corner. In the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass Whitman published this poem as section 8 of "Chants Democratic." In 1867, he gave it the permanent title "Song at Sunset" and moved it to the supplement "Songs Before Parting"; in 1871 it was finally transferred to the cluster "Songs of Parting" within the main body of Leaves of Grass. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: loc.00298 Title:  Songs of Parting Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 18 leaves with handwritten annotations, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  Content:  Bound proofs of Whitman's cluster "Songs of Parting," containing 17 poems. Opposite a portrait of Whitman, the title page reads, "Songs of Parting, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof." These corrections were probably for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. The 17 poems included are: "As the Time Draws Nigh," "Ashes of Soldiers," "Years of the Modern," "Thoughts," "Song at Sunset," "My Legacy," "Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All," "Camps of Green," "Bathed in War's Perfume," "Now Finalé to the Shore," "As they Draw to a Close," "The Untold Want," "Portals," "These Carols," "To the Reader at Parting," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," and "So Long." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Song for All Seas, All Ships Whitman Archive ID: yal.00006 Title:  Sea Captains, Young or Old Date: about 1873 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  This manuscript is a signed draft of "Sea Captains, Young or Old," which was published first in the New York Daily Graphic on April 4, 1873. The poem was later retitled, "Song for All Seas, All Ships," and appeared in Two Rivulets, the companion volume to the 1876 Author's edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Song for Occupations, A Whitman Archive ID: uva.00086 Title:  [A cluster of poems] Date: about 1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 19.5 x 15.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  These notes for a cluster of poems that Whitman characterisizes as being "in the same way as Calamus Leaves expressing the idea and sentiment of Happiness . . . " appear on the verso of a page of prose notes for a poem or essay to be titled "Living Pictures" or "America." These notes mirror thoughts and expressions contained in the 1855 Preface. The manuscript lists various occupations and includes the phrase "not one jot less than" factors which bear relation to the poem eventually titled "Song for Occupations" appearing for the first time as an untitled poem in the 1855 edition. Whitman's use of the old long "s" in the word "less" indicates that the leaf was inscribed quite early in his poetic career. Whitman's use of the title "Calamus Leaves" on the opposite side, as in some very similar notes currently housed at Duke University, point toward the 1860 cluster "Enfans d'Adam" and dates the notes to some point in the late spring of 1859. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Title:  "[George Walker]" Date: between 1855-1856 Physical Description: handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  A notebook Whitman used for various purposes in the mid-1850s. Edward F. Grier, in his edition of Whitman's Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984. 6 vols), noted that the notebook contains lines and phrases that relate to several poems: "Song of the Broad-Axe," "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Starting from Paumanok," "A Song for Occupations," "By Blue Ontario's Shore," "Salut au Monde!," "To One Shortly to Die," and "A Woman Waits for Me." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: duk.00263 Title:  [I see who you are] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Lines, cancelled with a vertical strike, expressing ideas modified considerably before use in the third poem of the 1855 Leaves of Grass, later titled "A Song for Occupations." On the verso is one heavily corrected line whose relationship to the recto material or to any other published poem is uncertain. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: loc.00013 Title:  [Priests!] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 10 x 20 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  These lines thematically resemble work of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, specifically the final lines of the poem later called "A Song for Occupations," but their specific relationship to Whitman's published work is unknown. On verso, there is an autograph note. This manuscript was posthumously published with the title "[Until You Can Explain...]" Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Song of Joys, A Whitman Archive ID: duk.00044 Title:  [Perfect serenity of mind] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  A fragment of several lines, apparently written before publication of the first edition of Leaves of Grass in 1855. One of the lines was included in the 1860 "Poem of Joys," which was later entitled "A Song of Joys." Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00082 Title:  After the Supper and Talk Date: about 1885 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 25 x 20 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of "After the Supper and Talk". This poem was rejected by Harper's in 1885 but published in Lippincott's Magazine in November 1887, after which it eventually became the final poem in the "First Annex" titled "Sands at Seventy." To the verso are pasted sections 16 and 18-19 of "Poem of Joys" (final title: "A Song of Joys") clipped either from the independent book Passage to India (1871) or from the "Passage to India" supplement to Leaves of Grass. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00218 Title:  Poem of Joys Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 20 leaves, 14.5 x 13 cm to 21.5 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  |  31  |  32  |  33  |  34  |  35  |  36  |  37  |  38  |  39  |  40  Content:  These twenty leaves, numbered by a collector, relate to "Poem of Joys," first published in the 1860 Leaves of Grass. The title became "Poems of Joy" in 1867, but reverted to the original title in its next two iterations (in the "Passage to India" supplement of 1872 and 1876). In 1881 it was finally titled "A Song of Joys" and left independent of any cluster. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: loc.00003 Title:  So Loth to Depart! Date: about 1887 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 26 x 20 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Draft of poem later revised and published as "After the Supper and Talk" in 1887. On verso detached from Leaves of Grass, part of "Poem of Joys," first published in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, and later published as "A Song of Joys." The title "Poem of Joys" is in Whitman's hand. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "The Whale Chase" Date: 1869 Content:  Proof sheets of several poems: "The Whale Chase" (published as a part of "A Song of Joys"), "The Singer in Prison", first published in 1869, "A Word Out of the Sea" (first published as "A Child's Reminiscence" in 1859 and finally as "Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking"), and five poems which are not Whitman's: part of "The Passions" (by William Collins), part of "The Battle of Naseby" (by Thomas Babbington Macaulay), "The Midnight Visitor" (probably a translation of "La Ballade du Desespere" by Henri Murger), "John Anderson My Jo" (by Robert Burns), and "The Bridge of Sighs" (by Thomas Hood). There are no annotations on the sheets. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Song of Myself Title:  "['wood drake']" Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  An early notebook of Whitman's. William White, in his edition of Whitman's Daybooks and Notebooks (New York: New York University Press, 1978. 3 vols.), noted a relationship between material in this notebook and the poem "Song of Myself," specifically section 13, lines 237-243. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: duk.00261 Title:  [(Fa)bles, traditions, and] Date: Between 1850 and 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A manuscript draft with ideas and language related to what eventually became section 41 of "Song of Myself" and to the untitled fourteenth poem of the 1860 cluster "Debris." The verso contains prose which begins "It is the endless delusion of big and little smouchers" and deals in part with the poor. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: duk.00293 Title:  [A man of gigantic] Date: undated Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one side is a prose fragment contemplating the combination in one man of power and compassion. The ideas and some of the phrases appear to be related to lines from the opening poem of the 1855 Leaves of Grass—what would later become section 24 of "Song of Myself." On the reverse is another prose fragment dealing with the importance of independent thinking amid social forces of law and custom. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: duk.00006 Title:  [And I have discovered them by night and by] Date: between 1850 and 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The draft lines on one side of the manuscript leaf contributed to the opening poem of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. In the poem's final version, "Song of Myself," these lines are found in section 48. It is not known whether the prose on the leaf's reverse is related to any of Whitman's published work; however, physical and thematic similarities with "[And I have discovered them by night and by]," above, and "[My tongue can never be content with harness]," below, make a connection with the 1860 poem "Unnamed Lands" likely. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00264 Title:  [And their voices] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 4.5 x 19.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A pencil question mark appears above a very faint line linking "valved" and "cornet." These half-prose, half-poetic notes were revised and incorporated in two separate verses of what would become "Song of Myself": the eventual verse 597, in section 26 ("I hear...the keyed cornet") and verse 1067 in section 42 ("Ever the vexer's hoot! hoot! till we find where the sly one hides and bring him/ forth..."). Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: duk.00003 Title:  [And when once they went far enough to see] Date: between 1850 and 1860 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  On one side of these manuscript leaves are drafts of lines for the opening poem of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, ultimately titled "Song of Myself," sections six and seven. On the reverse are fragments of an unpublished prose piece that appears to represent an early draft of "Unnamed Lands," a poem published first in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. The material on the second leaf shares with that poem not only a close thematic similarity but also several of the same phrases. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00273 Title:  [Can ? make me so exuberant yet so faintish] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 6 x 19.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The recto verses bear some similarity to what would eventually form section 28 of "Song of Myself," while the deleted lines on the verso (beginning "This mouth is pulled by some sexton for his dismalest fee,") represent a fragment of draft lines eventually incorporated in the sixth poem of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, a poem permanently retitled "Faces" in the 1872 edition. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00251 Title:  [Do I not prove myself] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 8 x 18.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On the verso appear two undeleted lines beginning "Whatever I say of myself, you shall apply to yourself..." that eventually formed part of section 20 of "Song of Myself." The deleted pencil lines beginning "I think there will never be any more heaven or hell / than there is now," were revised to form what would eventually become the second verse paragraph of section 3 of "Song of Myself." After heavy revision the lines appearing on the recto of the manuscript were used in what would be section 41 of "Song of Myself." These lines also bear relation to the untitled 14th poem of the "Debris" cluster (1860). The lines were not among the various passages of "Debris" that survived in the final poems of Leaves of Grass. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00014 Title:  [How can there be immortality] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 4.5 x 14.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  These lines, appearing on a very small section of white laid paper cut and cropped irregularly, bear a strong resemblance to the (eventual) second verse paragraph in section 6 of "Starting from Paumanok," first published in 1860 as "Proto-Leaf." The fragmentary lines on the verso (beginning "Downward, buoyant, swif[t]"), represent a different version of a line incorporated in the pre-1855 notebook poem "Pictures" and of one inscribed in the 1854 notebook [I know a rich capitalist...], currently housed at the New York Public Library. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00256 Title:  [I am a curse] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 18.5 x 17.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  One leaf inscribed and revised on both sides in pencil. The trial lines on the verso (beginning "His very aches are exstasy") seem to have been revised for inclusion in what is now section 29 of "Song of Myself." Whitman's unusual spelling of "ecstasy" indicates not only that the lines came very early in the process of writing Leaves of Grass, but that these lines may have originally been part of the proto-"Song of Myself" before being transferred to what would become "The Sleepers." The verso lines and the words "I am a curse" link this leaf to two sections of draft verses in the earliest Library of Congress notebook (#80) beginning "Fierce wrestler!" and "I am a curse." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00238 Title:  [I am a student] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 9.5 x 15 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The themes expressed in this early fragment would inform the lines that eventually became section 2 of "Song of Myself;" Whitman never used it verbatim. On the verso appears an undeleted but heavily revised early draft of famous lines, beginning "The spotted hawk swoops by...," incorporated in what would constitute the final canto of the poem in the 1867 and later editions of Leaves of Grass.--> Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00269 Title:  [I am become the poet of babes and] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 4 x 14.5 cm pasted to 4.5 x 15 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The verso lines beginning "I think I could dash the girder of the earth / away" and "Surely I am out of my head!" are deleted with several pencil strokes. The deleted number 209 appears in the top right corner of the lower section. After much revision the recto lines, which are related to lines in Library of Congress Notebook #80, seem to have become part of what would be section 44 of "Song of Myself." The verso contains an early draft of lines eventually incorporated in section 27 of the poem. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00250 Title:  [I call back blunderers] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 4.5 x 19.5 cm pasted to 7 x 19.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The first few lines were never used, but the last two verses (beginning "I offer men no painted saucers...") share similarities with the final verse paragraph (beginning "Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,") of what would eventually become section 2 of "Song of Myself." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: duk.00051 Title:  [I know as well as you that Bibles are divine revelation] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A manuscript draft treating ideas about divine revelation related to section 41 in the final version of "Song of Myself." The verso contains notes about the character and physical traits of several different men: Bill Guess, Peter, and George Fitch, dated March 20th '54. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00280 Title:  [I must not deceive you—you are to die] Date: 1855-1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 4 x 14.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The verso lines (beginning "[I] and nobody else am the greatest traitor,") represent a later draft than similar verses in Library of Congress Notebook #80 of what would eventually become part of section 28 of "Song of Myself." The recto lines were revised to form part of the 1860 poem "To One Shortly To Die." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: duk.00159 Title:  [In metaphysical points] Date: 1855 or before Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Manuscript about the roles of science and "the soul" in the apprehension of truth. The fragmentary paragraph at the bottom of the leaf seems to be the germ of certain lines of what eventually became "Song of Myself," section 23, first published in 1855. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: loc.00042 Title:  [I say the stars are not echoes] Date: undated Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of a poem that resembles section 23 of "Song of Myself" but whose specific relationship to Whitman's published work is unknown. The draft, though not identical, has many lines similar to the posthumously published manuscript titled "[I Am the Poet]." On the verso is a draft of an unidentified prose work. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: duk.00007 Title:  [it is no miracle now that] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A manuscript draft of ideas about touch related to sections 28-30 in the final version of "Song of Myself." The verso contains prose writing related to ideas expressed in Leaves of Grass. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: duk.00260 Title:  [Light and air!] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  A manuscript draft of ideas related to section 31 in the final version of "Song of Myself." Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00254 Title:  [My hand will not hurt what it holds] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 19 x 15.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The numbers 195 and 196 are inscribed on the verso and recto, respectively; these numbers, along with remnants of paste and binding tape along the left margin of the recto, suggest that the pages came from a notebook. The lines on the recto are deleted and appear to have been revised to form what is now section 28 of "Song of Myself." The verso contains undeleted notes that begin with a list of animals and plants ("cottonwood—mulberry—/chickadee—large brown water-dog"), followed by a verse ("The suicide / went to a lonesome place...") that Whitman revised for use ("The suicide sprawls on the bloody floor of the bedroom,") in what would eventually constitute section 8 of "Song of Myself." This verse is followed by another section of the natural "catalogue" ("locust, birch / cypress..."), below which appears a pair of verses (beginning "O dirt, you corpse—I reckon you are good manure—") used in what would be section 48 of the "Song of Myself." The list of flora and fauna could anticipate any number of similar lists in Whitman, but bears the strongest resemblance to section 29 of "Poem of Joys" (final title: "A Song of Joys"), which first appeared in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: duk.00262 Title:  [My Spirit sped back to the] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A manuscript draft related in general to ideas expressed in "Song of Myself." The verso contains one cancelled line: "Not one of the heroic guests." Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: duk.00008 Title:  [My tongue can never be content with harness] Date: between 1850 and 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one side of the manuscript leaf are draft poetic lines with an unknown relation to Whitman's published work. However, physical and thematic similarities with "[And when once they went far enough to see]" and "[And I have discovered them by night and by]," above, suggest that the lines were possibly drafted for the 1855 poem that eventually became "Song of Myself." These similarities also suggest that the prose on the leaf's reverse is likely related to "Unnamed Lands", first published in Leaves of Grass, 1860. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00278 Title:  [Remember if you are dying] Date: 1855-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 8 x 15.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The verso lines (beginning "[sl]ueing,/...[be ]nding,/...halt in the shade,") represent a fragment of a polished pre-1855-publication draft of lines that would eventually belong in section 13 of "Song of Myself." Whitman used this leaf at some point after 1855 to jot down the recto verses perpendicular to the ruled lines. These seem to constitute a complete but very early draft of the poem "To One Shortly To Die," first published in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass in the cluster "Messenger Leaves." In the upper right corner of the recto appear the words "note / last page of 'Ghost-seers'" in Whitman's hand, suggesting that he had considered forming a cluster under this title, never published, in Leaves of Grass, perhaps in the 1860 edition. The phrase "Ghost-seers" recalls a statement regarding Emerson in "Leaves-Droppings," a section of correspondence and commentary Whitman appended to the 1856 edition: "[Emerson] sees the future of truths as our Spirit-seers discern the future of man..." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: duk.00304 Title:  [The most superb beauties] Date: 1855 or before Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Notes, or possibly trial lines, expressing the idea that the highest beauty is found in what is "cheapest" and "commonest," possibly connected to a passage in section 14 of "Song of Myself," first published untitled in 1855. This scrap has been attached by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with "[It seems to me]," "[What shall the great poet be then?]," and "[Make no quotations]." Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: duk.00018 Title:  [There is no word in any tongue] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  A manuscript draft of ideas about God and man related to what eventually became sections 48-49 of the final version of "Song of Myself." This manuscript has been mounted and framed with a prose fragment, dealing with the soul and nature, and a photograph of Whitman. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00265 Title:  [The smell of the salt marsh] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 8.5 x 20 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The first line originally read "Odor of the salt marsh, and of the mud and sea-weed[.]" An earlier version of these lines is also associated with proto-"Song of Myself" verses in Library of Congress Notebook #80 ("And the salt marsh and creek have/ delicious odors..."). The "unearthly laugh of the laughing-gull" reappears in what would eventually become line 763 (section 33) of "Song of Myself." Most of the lines were incorporated, however (after further revision), into the tenth poem of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. This poem was titled "Poem of The Child That Went Forth, and Always Goes Forth, Forever and Forever" in the 1856 edition, after which it became number 9 in the 1860 group "Leaves of Grass," number 1 of a different "Leaves of Grass" group in 1867, and, finally, "There Was a Child Went Forth" in the 1872 edition. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00260 Title:  [The sores on my shoulders are from his] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 8 x 15 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Inscribed, revised, and deleted in pencil. On the verso appear the undeleted lines "Hear my fife! —I am a recruiter / Come, who will join my troop?" Scholars have recorded these lines as a version of the lines ("And now a merry recruiter passes, with fife and drum, seeking who will / join his troop...") in the pre-1855 notebook poem "Pictures." The image of the musician recruiting attention equally for the problems of all connects these lines with section 18 of "Song of Myself." Although the manuscript contains the phrase "iron necklace," which appears in the poem eventually titled "To A Foil'd European Revolutionaire", the image of the steamboat carrying away the woman and the first person narrative style seem to connect this manuscript most clearly to the development of what would eventually become section 4 of "The Sleepers" first appearing in print with this title in 1871. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: loc.00507 Title:  [The wild gander leads] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A one-page handwritten draft of a portion of "Song of Myself," which was published first in 1855. These lines eventually became section 14 and the beginning of section 15 in the so-called Deathbed Edition of Leaves of Grass. On the verso is a long list of words. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: duk.00001 Title:  [To be at all] Date: before 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one side are draft lines for what became section 27 of "Song of Myself," which was first published as the opening poem in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. In 1897, after Whitman's death, a poem entitled "To Be at All," based on this manuscript, was published in "Old Age Echoes." On the reverse side are notes, trial lines, and lists of words and phrases related to what eventually became sections 24 and 49 of "Song of Myself" and to the poem "In Paths Untrodden," first published in 1860 as the opening poem of the "Calamus" cluster. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00261 Title:  [Where the little musk ox carries his] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 6 x 19 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Inscribed and revised on both sides in pencil. The only line used from the recto ("Where the life car is drawn on the slip-noose") is deleted here; it became part of what would eventually form section 33 of "Song of Myself." The deleted verso lines (beginning "Who knows that I shall not myself / [...] time be a God, as pure and prodigious/ as any?") constitute a poetic revision of prose notes in Library of Congress notebook #85, and seem to have led up to what would eventually become section 48 of "Song of Myself." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00263 Title:  [You there] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12.5 x 20 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The left side of the manuscript is torn as if the page had been removed from a notebook. This page was apparently inscribed very close to the publication of the 1855 Leaves of Grass; with a few revisions it became part of what would eventually be section 40 of "Song of Myself." On the verso appear undeleted notes defining and illustrating such verse forms as "hexameters," "dactyl," "Spondee," "Iambus," and "Trochee." These notes represent an incomplete version of notes on a manuscript currently housed at Rutgers University. Scholars have commented that the Rutgers manuscript probably dates to 1856 or afterwards, when Whitman was pursuing a self-education in poetry, suggesting that the verso notes of this manuscript also date to that period. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00137 Title:  [You woman, mother of children] Date: 1850-1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 24.5 cm x 24.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript contains images of women as mother and wife. The husband and wife together at night appears consistently as one of the images used in the poem ultimately titled "Song of Myself" throughout all of the editions of Leaves of Grass. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: tex.00057 Title:  And to me each minute of the night Date: before 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  About ten draft lines from the opening poem of the 1855 Leaves of Grass, ultimately called "Song of Myself." This manuscript passage is made up of versions of lines from numerous places widely scattered in the first published version of the poem (and of the 1855 preface). Various lines from this one passage appear in widely scattered places: in the final version of "Song of Myself," they appear in sections 5, 13, 16, 31, 36, and 43, while other pieces appear in the poem eventually entitled "To Think of Time" and the pre-1855 manuscript poem "Pictures." The verso features a list of poems as an alternative plan for structuring the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00112 Title:  Enter into the thoughts Date: before 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Once part of a larger scrap that began with "For example, whisper." Edward F. Grier credits R. M. Bucke with pointing out the "similarity of the text to "Song of Myself" (1855), sec. 43, ll. 1096-1110. The date is undoubtedly before 1855." Repository: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00078 Title:  Night of south winds | The crowds naked in the bath Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, approximately 19.5 x 19 cm., handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Bound by collector. Includes language that appeared in the first poem of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, later "Song of Myself," section 21. On the verso, lines related to a different section of the same poem, eventually section 31. Repository: The Oscar Lion Collection of Walt Whitman, The New York Public Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00117 Title:  The Whale-boat Date: late 1850s Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 cm x 12 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript contains notes about whales that mirror a passage about whales published in "Song of Myself". A direct relationship of this manuscript to Whitman's published work is unknown, although a possible relationship also exists with drafts of the poem "The Sleepers" in which Whitman was working with the idea of a whale being harpooned. These notes may be a continuation of notes written on two separate scraps and held at Duke University (The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library), "The Whale," MS 4to 88. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00079 Title:  vain the mastodon | How mean a person is sometimes Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 18.5 by 19.7 cm., irregularly, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one side are draft lines for the first poem of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, eventually titled "Song of Myself." These lines are from sections 31 and 32, as numbered in the 1891-92 edition. On the verso are two prose notes, the first about the frequent meanness of men of high social standing and the second about the wisdom of keeping "clean inside and out." The leaf was formerly cut between the verso-side notes, probably by Whitman, and has been rejoined. Repository: The Oscar Lion Collection of Walt Whitman, The New York Public Library Whitman Archive ID: tex.00002 Title:  You villain, Touch! | war and justice Date:  Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  On the front are Whitman's notes and thoughts on prehistoric human life, with certain key phrases such as In the trance of the healthy brain of man repeated. The reverse features about eleven lines, heavily revised, from "Song of Myself", beginning with You villain, Touch!. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin

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Song of the Answerer Whitman Archive ID: loc.00162 Title:  [Between this beautiful] Date: undated Physical Description: 6 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  Content:  A draft of a poem likely relating to "Song of the Answerer" collected in a bound book of Whitman manuscripts under the general title Walt Whitman: A Series of Six Pieces, Original Holograph Manuscripts. Drafts of prose appear on the other leaves, including a draft resembling the beginning of "The Eighteenth Presidency!" Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "[med Cophósis]" Date: between 1850-1856 Physical Description: handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  A notebook kept by Whitman in the early to mid-1850s. William White, in his edition of Whitman's Daybooks and Notebooks (New York: New York University Press, 1978. 3 vols.), noted a relationship between this notebook and the poems "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?," "By Blue Ontario's Shore," "Song of the Answerer," and "There Was a Child Went Forth." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: bpl.00004 Title:  [most poets finish single specimens of] Date: 1856 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A group of several notes, all concerned with the general topic of the character and social position of the poet. The list of seven attributes that is written in the middle of the page formed the basis for a stanza of "Poem of The Singers, and of The Words of Poems," published in 1856 and later combined with one of the 1855 poems to become "Song of the Answerer." Pasted to the manuscript is a clipping, annotated and dated June 1856, about Hungarian literary nationalism, and at the bottom of the page are notes on the German poet Heinrich Heine. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Boston Public Library Whitman Archive ID: duk.00166 Title:  [Produce great persons and the producers] Date: 1856 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  Manuscript and clipping. On one side of the manuscript leaf are several prose notes, including two versions of a paragraph that was later revised to become a line in "Poem of Many In One," published in 1856 and eventually titled "By Blue Ontario's Shore." The phrase "savage and luxuriant," which appears toward the bottom of this side, was used in Whitman's open letter to Emerson, published in an appendix to the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass. On the other side of the leaf is a partial draft of "Poem of The Singers, and of the Words of Poems," also first published in 1856. In the final edition of Leaves of Grass this and another poem, which had been included in every edition since 1855, were combined to form "Song of the Answerer." Whitman pasted two newspaper clippings on the manuscript, one on each side. One of these, which had covered Whitman's paragraphs but has since been detached, is included in the file. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00118 Title:  [Time always without break] Date: 1887 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28 x 21.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript contains two lines from Whitman's poem "Song of the Answerer." This fair copy was evidently made for an admirer: it includes Whitman's autograph in large letters above the lines "Camden New Jersey / March 14 1887—." The lines from the poem are quoted without revision from the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass, followed by the citation "(L of Grass—p 137)," which refers to the 1881 system of pagination. These lines come from the first verse paragraph of section 2 of the poem. This section began as the independent composition "19—Poem of The Singers, and of The Words of Poems" in 1856, after which it underwent various changes in content, title, and position until being joined with "Now List to My Morning Romanza" in 1881. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Song of the Banner at Daybreak Whitman Archive ID: tex.00040 Title:  [O I think I could not be the] Date: undated Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Approximately four draft lines, showing a moderate amount of revision. The lines are perhaps related to the poem "Song of the Banner at Daybreak," first published in 1865 in Drum-Taps. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Whitman Archive ID: tex.00042 Title:  Pictures Date: about 1865 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Poetry manuscript titled "Pictures," approximately six lines, heavily revised. The first few lines of this manuscript appeared, further revised, in "The Runner," first published in the 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass. The middle section of the manuscript is possibly related to "Song of the Banner at Daybreak," which was first published in 1865 in Drum-Taps. A different version of last two lines of the manuscript appear in another poetry draft, also titled "Pictures," that Whitman wrote in a notebook now in Yale University's Beinecke Library. The first several lines of the notebook draft were revised and published as "My Picture-Gallery" in The American in October 1880. The verso of the leaf has about five lines of handwriting beginning with "Lilac Times." Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin

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Song of the Broad-Axe Title:  "[(illeg.) Dick Hunt]" Date: 1856-1857 Physical Description: handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  |  31  |  32  |  33  |  34  |  35  |  36  |  37  |  38  |  39  |  40  |  41  |  42  |  43  |  44  |  45  |  46  |  47  |  48  |  49  |  50  |  51  |  52  |  53  |  54  |  55  |  56  |  57  |  58  |  59  |  60  |  61  |  62  |  63  |  64  |  65  |  66  |  67  |  68  |  69  |  70  |  71  |  72  |  73  |  74  |  75  |  76  |  77  |  78  |  79  |  80  |  81  |  82  |  83  |  84  |  85  |  86  |  87  |  88  |  89  |  90  |  91  |  92  |  93  |  94  |  95  |  96  |  97  |  98  |  99  |  100  |  101  |  102  |  103  |  104  |  105  |  106  |  107  |  108  |  109  |  110  |  111  |  112  |  113  |  114  |  115  |  116  |  117  |  118  |  119  |  120  |  121  |  122  |  123  |  124  |  125  |  126  |  127  |  128  |  129  |  130  |  131  |  132  |  133  |  134  |  135  |  136  |  137  |  138  |  139  |  140  |  141  |  142  |  143  |  144  |  145  |  146  |  147  |  148  |  149  |  150  |  151  |  152  |  153  |  154  |  155  |  156  |  157  |  158  |  159  |  160  |  161  |  162  |  163  |  164  |  165  |  166  |  167  |  168  |  169  |  170  |  171  |  172  |  173  |  174  |  175  Content:  A notebook Whitman used for various purposes in the mid-1850s. Edward F. Grier, in his edition of Whitman's Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984. 6 vols.), noted that the notebook contains lines and phrases that relate to several poems: "Song of the Broad-Axe," "To a Common Prostitute," "You Felons on Trial in Courts," "Starting from Paumanok," "Trickle Drops," "I Was Looking for a Long While," "Poem of Joys," "Facing West from California's Shores," "To the States," "A Song of the Rolling Earth," "On the Beach a Night Alone," "Full of Life Now," and "With Antecedents." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "[George Walker]" Date: between 1855-1856 Physical Description: handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  A notebook Whitman used for various purposes in the mid-1850s. Edward F. Grier, in his edition of Whitman's Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984. 6 vols), noted that the notebook contains lines and phrases that relate to several poems: "Song of the Broad-Axe," "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Starting from Paumanok," "A Song for Occupations," "By Blue Ontario's Shore," "Salut au Monde!," "To One Shortly to Die," and "A Woman Waits for Me." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: duk.00294 Title:  Bloom Date: about 1856 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Leaf made from two scraps glued together. The writing on the top scrap appears to be a note about one of Whitman's acquaintances. The bottom scrap contains notes toward "Song of the Broad-Axe," which was first published in 1856 as "Broad-Axe Poem." Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: duk.00033 Title:  Broadaxe Date: about 1856 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Notes written in three separate columns about the uses and history of the broadaxe. "The Broad-Axe Poem" first appeared in 1856, taking the title "Song of the Broad-Axe" in 1867. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00141 Title:  Song of the Broad-Axe Date:  Physical Description: 23 leaves 20 leaves, 20 cm x 12 cm 20 cm x 12 cm, corrected proofs View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  |  31  |  32  |  33  |  34  |  35  |  36  |  37  |  38  |  39  |  40  |  41  |  42  |  43  |  44  |  45  |  46  Content:  Revision of poem cluster "Song of the Broad-Axe" contained in red slipcase measuring 24 cm x 15 cm. Revisions are made in ink and blue pencil on printed edition of the poem. WW apparently used two volumes to tear the leaves from, as every other page is slightly smaller than the rest, revisions are made only on the recto side of each leaf, and verso is crossed out. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Song of the Exposition Title:  "[After all]" Date: about 1871 Physical Description: 1 leaf Images: forthcoming Content:  One-page facsimile of Whitman's manuscript. Publication information printed in lower left-hand corner reads: "Whitman series: 1. Copyright, 1913, by Horace Traubel and Albert Boni." The lines resemble passages later published in the poem "After All, Not to Create Only"in 1871. That poem was later revised and the title changed to "Song of the Exposition." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: duk.00129 Title:  [Struggling steadily to the front] Date: about 1875 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  Content:  Heavily revised draft of the prefactory note for "Song of the Exposition," as it appeared in the 1876 volume Two Rivulets. Earlier and later publications of the poem did not include this prose introduction. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: loc.00381 Title:  [The trilogy] Date: about 1871 Physical Description: about 50 leaves, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Several notes and drafts with an unknown relationship to one another, but all, at least thematically, resembling the poem first published as "After All, Not to Create Only" in 1871 (later published as "Song of the Exposition"). The pages include trial lines for the poem, as well as notes which seem to indicate general ambitions and themes of the work. Within these pages, other trial titles of the poem are also included: "After all, not to command only," "After all, not to create but to obey," and "After all, not to create or destroy only." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: tex.00069 Title:  After all, not to create only Date: about 1871 Physical Description: 29 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  Content:  Draft of the poem "After all, Not to Create Only," written for the opening of the fortieth Annual Exhibition of the American Institute in 1871 and published on 7 September 1871 in both the New York Commercial Advertiser and the New York Evening Post. It was reprinted in several newspapers and as a pamphlet, After All, Not to Create Only (1871); as "Song of the Exposition" in Two Rivulets (1876); and with some revisions in Leaves of Grass (1881–82). Sheets from the pamphlet were included in some copies of the 1871 Leaves of Grass. A note at the top of the manuscript, written by Whitman's friend William Sloane Kennedy, indicates that it was used as printer's copy for the pamphlet publication. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Title:  "After all, not to create only" Date: about 1871 Physical Description: 30 leaves, largest 25 x 20 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Bound manuscript of "After all, not to create only." Although the manuscript contains many revisions, it appears to be relatively near the final draft. Whitman wrote this poem following a request by the Committee on Invitations of the American Institute to deliver an original poem at the opening of the Fortieth Annual Exhibition. "After All, Not to Create Only" was first published in 1871. It was later revised and the title changed to "Song of the Exposition." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "After All, Not to Create Only" Date: about 1871 Physical Description: both 11 leaves, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Two copies of proofs sheets, both with caption title at head: "Office American Institute, New York." Printed by Pearson, Washington. Only one correction made to the first proof. "After All, Not to Create Only" was first published in 1871. It was later revised and the title was changed to "Song of the Exposition." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "After All, Not to Create Only" Date: 1871 Physical Description: handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Bound copy of the poem, sent to "Dr. R. M. Bucke, Asylum, London, Ontario, Canada." Title page reads, in Whitman's hand, "After All, Not to Create Only, by Walt Whitman Office, American Institute, New York City, 1871." Contains 10 illustrations and proofs of poem. "After All, Not to Create Only"" was first published in 1871. The poem was later revised and the title changed to "Song of the Exposition." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00004 Title:  After the Supper and Talk Date: 1887 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28 x 25.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Signed draft of the poem, which was first published in 1887. On the verso is a proof sheet from "After All, Not to Create Only" with one correction. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00380 Title:  Come, Muse, migrate from Greece and Ionia Date: about 1871 Physical Description: 4 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  Content:  Four pages of lines later revised and included in "After All, Not to Create Only," first published 1871. That poem was later revised and the title changed to "Song of the Exposition." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00383 Title:  Come, Muse, migrate from Greece and Ionia Date: about 1871 Physical Description: 10 leaves, largest 25 x 20 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  Content:  This draft, relatively clean, comes after a bound manuscript of "After all, not to create only" and before a piece of brown paper, which reads "Piece for the American Institute." This poem was later incorporated into "After All, Not to Create Only," first published in 1871. That poem was later revised and title changed to "Song of the Exposition." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "The Dalliance of the Eagles" Date: about 1880 Physical Description: 3 leaves Images: forthcoming Content:  Three proofs, two of which also have "Ah, little knows the Laborer"(later appearing in a revised form as the first three lines of "Song of the Exposition"), and one of which also contains a proof of the poem "Hast never come to thee an hour?" Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "The Dalliance of the Eagles" Date: about 1880 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 25.8 x 18.6 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Written in ink on a proof of "The Dalliance of the Eagles," "Ah, little knows the Laborer," "Hast never come to thee an hour?,"and "My Picture-Gallery," are 14 words of notations in Whitman's hand. The proof has been pasted to a heavy piece of paper, on the verso of which is "A Riddle Song," part of "Italian Music in Dakota," and a clipped headline reading "The Society Articles Save Labor. Lighten the Labor for Mother." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Song of the Open Road Whitman Archive ID: uva.00249 Title:  [I subject all the teachings] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 15.5 x 12 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  These verses seem to have been part of a larger set of verses or poems. Because of the way the page is torn the final word could read "any," or it could just as easily read "an," indicating that a continuation of the lines has been lost. These lines prefigure section 6, especially beginning with the line "Here is the test of wisdom," of what would become "Song of the Open Road," first published in 1856 as "Poem of the Road." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00286 Title:  [O I must not forget] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 14 x 12 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Whitman's use of the tax form and the strong similarity this fragment bears both to the 1856 "Poem of the Road" (later "Song of the Open Road") and to the 1860 "Proto-Leaf" (eventually "Starting from Paumanok") indicate that this may have been a revision of the former poem or, as seems more likely, an early draft of "Proto-Leaf" intended for the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: loc.00847 Title:  Song of the Open Road Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 6 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  Content:  A bound proof of "Song of the Open Road," corrected and revised in Whitman's hand. Opposite a portrait of Whitman, the title page reads, "Song of the Open Road, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof." This is probably a revision for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Song of the Redwood-Tree Whitman Archive ID: loc.00373 Title:  [Farewell my brethren] Date: about 1873 Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Held together with two other scraps of paper is a cancelled draft of lines from "Song of the Redwood Tree," first published in 1873. Repository: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress, 1842-1937 Whitman Archive ID: duk.00047 Title:  [Poem (subject)] Date: about 1873 Date: February 1874 Physical Description: 4 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  Notes for a poem about calls used in various occupations and, on the reverse of one leaf, an early draft of a portion of "Song of the Redwood-Tree," a poem first published in the February 1874 issue of Harper's Magazine. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00064 Title:  Song of the Redwood Tree Date: about 1873 Physical Description: 20 leaves, 11 x 12.5 cm to 22.5 x 17.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  Content:  This manuscript contains a rough draft of the poem "Song of the Redwood-Tree" written, according to a note intialed by Whitman, during October and November 1873 prior to its first publication in the February 1874 issue of Harper's Magazine. In 1876 the poem was published in the group "Centennial Songs" and annexed to Two Rivulets. The poem appears ungrouped again in Leaves of Grass (1881). Several leaves contain deleted and undeleted titles or variant verse references to other published poems: "Eidólons", "Waves in the Vessel's Wake", "(a sonnet)" written "for Century Verses," which appears from a Library of Congress manuscript to have been a working title of the group that became "Centennial Verses" and "A California song". Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00067 Title:  Song of the Redwood Tree Date: about 1873 Physical Description: 11 leaves, , handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  Content:  This manuscript contains a rough draft of the poem "Song of the Redwood-Tree" written, according to a note intialed by Whitman, during October and November 1873 prior to its first publication in the February 1874 issue of Harper's Magazine. In 1876 the poem was published in the group "Centennial Songs" and annexed to Two Rivulets. The poem appears ungrouped again in Leaves of Grass (1881). The similarities between this manuscript draft and the Harper's edition of the poem seem to indicate that Whitman revised these pages in preparation for the first publication. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: loc.00297 Title:  Song of the Redwood-Tree Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 40.5 x 25.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  Content:  A proof sheet of "Song of the Redwood-Tree," first published in 1874, with minor corrections and a note on the verso in Whitman's hand. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Song of the Rolling Earth, A Title:  "[(illeg.) Dick Hunt]" Date: 1856-1857 Physical Description: handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  |  31  |  32  |  33  |  34  |  35  |  36  |  37  |  38  |  39  |  40  |  41  |  42  |  43  |  44  |  45  |  46  |  47  |  48  |  49  |  50  |  51  |  52  |  53  |  54  |  55  |  56  |  57  |  58  |  59  |  60  |  61  |  62  |  63  |  64  |  65  |  66  |  67  |  68  |  69  |  70  |  71  |  72  |  73  |  74  |  75  |  76  |  77  |  78  |  79  |  80  |  81  |  82  |  83  |  84  |  85  |  86  |  87  |  88  |  89  |  90  |  91  |  92  |  93  |  94  |  95  |  96  |  97  |  98  |  99  |  100  |  101  |  102  |  103  |  104  |  105  |  106  |  107  |  108  |  109  |  110  |  111  |  112  |  113  |  114  |  115  |  116  |  117  |  118  |  119  |  120  |  121  |  122  |  123  |  124  |  125  |  126  |  127  |  128  |  129  |  130  |  131  |  132  |  133  |  134  |  135  |  136  |  137  |  138  |  139  |  140  |  141  |  142  |  143  |  144  |  145  |  146  |  147  |  148  |  149  |  150  |  151  |  152  |  153  |  154  |  155  |  156  |  157  |  158  |  159  |  160  |  161  |  162  |  163  |  164  |  165  |  166  |  167  |  168  |  169  |  170  |  171  |  172  |  173  |  174  |  175  Content:  A notebook Whitman used for various purposes in the mid-1850s. Edward F. Grier, in his edition of Whitman's Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984. 6 vols.), noted that the notebook contains lines and phrases that relate to several poems: "Song of the Broad-Axe," "To a Common Prostitute," "You Felons on Trial in Courts," "Starting from Paumanok," "Trickle Drops," "I Was Looking for a Long While," "Poem of Joys," "Facing West from California's Shores," "To the States," "A Song of the Rolling Earth," "On the Beach a Night Alone," "Full of Life Now," and "With Antecedents." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: duk.00019 Title:  [This is the Earth's word] Date: about 1856 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  A note possibly related to the poem "A Song for Rolling Earth," first published in 1856. A portrait of Whitman accompanies this manuscript. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00133 Title:  After death Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 7 x 15 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Whitman apparently never used the recto lines, but the deleted lines on the verso bear a strong resemblance to the opening of his 1856 "Poem of The Sayers of The Words of The Earth," titled in successive editions "To the Sayers of Words" (1860 and 1867), "Carol of Words" (1871, 1876), and, finally (in the 1881 edition of Leaves), "A Song of the Rolling Earth." The undeleted ink line on the verso resembles a later draft of a line inscribed in Feinberg notebook #697 at the Library of Congress. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Song of the Universal Whitman Archive ID: yal.00065 Title:  [all the vast mass] Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  This fragment is a very early draft of "Song of the Universal," first published in the New York Evening Post in 1874. The leaf is bound together with other manuscripts. Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Whitman Archive ID: yal.00066 Title:  [Christ] Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  This fragment is a very early draft of "Song of the Universal," first published in the New York Evening Post in 1874. The leaf is bound together with other manuscripts. Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Whitman Archive ID: yal.00062 Title:  [Come, said the Muse] Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This fragment is a very early draft of "Song of the Universal," first published in the New York Evening Post in 1874; it bears the cancelled date "March 31, '74." The two leaves are bound together with other manuscripts. Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00076 Title:  Song of the Universal Date:  Physical Description: 15 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  Content:  The poem first appeared as "The Song of the Universal" in the New York Evening Post on 17 June 1874. This poem was printed on the same day in the New York Daily Graphic, in the New York World on 19 June 1874, in the Camden New Republic on 20 June 1874, and in Two Rivulets (1876). Repository: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library Whitman Archive ID: yal.00061 Title:  Song of the Universal Date: 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  This manuscript is a note in Whitman's hand about the poem, "Song of the Universal", with the date, June 17, 1874. The leaf is bound together with other manuscripts. Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Whitman Archive ID: yal.00064 Title:  Song of the Universal Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  This fragment is a very early draft of "Song of the Universal," first published in the New York Evening Post in 1874. The leaf is bound together with other manuscripts. Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Whitman Archive ID: yal.00068 Title:  Song of the Universal Date: June 1874 Physical Description: 5 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  Content:  These five leaves make up what is apparently a complete printer's copy of "Song of the Universal," first published in the New York Evening Post in 1874. This manuscript is dated June 1874. The leaves are bound together with other manuscripts. Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Whitman Archive ID: yal.00069 Title:  Song of the Universal Date: about 1874 Physical Description: 4 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  These four leaves make up an early complete draft of "Song of the Universal," first published in the New York Evening Post in 1874. The four leaves are bound together with other manuscripts. Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Songs of Parting Whitman Archive ID: uva.00069 Title:  Songs of Departure Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12 x 19.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript appears to have been a trial cover leaf for the cluster "Songs of Parting," new to the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. Whitman struck out the words "A few" above the current title, but left undeleted four other possibilities at the top of the leaf: "Songs of Departure/ Departing,/ Termination/ Completion." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: loc.00298 Title:  Songs of Parting Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 18 leaves with handwritten annotations, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  Content:  Bound proofs of Whitman's cluster "Songs of Parting," containing 17 poems. Opposite a portrait of Whitman, the title page reads, "Songs of Parting, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof." These corrections were probably for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. The 17 poems included are: "As the Time Draws Nigh," "Ashes of Soldiers," "Years of the Modern," "Thoughts," "Song at Sunset," "My Legacy," "Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All," "Camps of Green," "Bathed in War's Perfume," "Now Finalé to the Shore," "As they Draw to a Close," "The Untold Want," "Portals," "These Carols," "To the Reader at Parting," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," and "So Long." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here Whitman Archive ID: hun.00016 Title:  Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here Date: ca. 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a draft of "Soon Shall the Winter's Foil Be Here," a poem published first in 1888. Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

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Soul Duet, A Whitman Archive ID: tex.00014 Title:  A Soul Duet Date: undated Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Heavily revised draft of a poem unpublished in Whitman's lifetime. The regular, rhymed structure and pious theme suggest a date before the first edition of Leaves of Grass in 1855. Critics Sculley Bradley and Harold Blodgett see similarities of style and theme between this manuscript and Whitman's writings of the 1840s. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin

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Sounds of the Winter Title:  "Old Age Echoes" Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 68.5 x 16.5 cm Images: forthcoming Content:  Galley Proof of four poems under the general title "Old Age Echoes": "Sounds of the Winter," "The Unexpress'd," "Sail Out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!," and "After the Argument." This grouping was published in March, 1891 in Lippincott's Magazine. A note in Traubel's hand appears at the top of the page. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old Age Echoes" Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 25 x 16.75 cm Images: forthcoming Content:  Offprint from the March, 1891 issue of Lippincott's Magazine of four poems under the general title "Old Age Echoes": "Sounds of the Winter," "The Unexpress'd," "Sail Out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!," and "After the Argument." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old Age Echoes" Date: March, 1891 Content:  Copy of the March, 1891 issue of Lippincott's Magazine with four Whitman poems under the general title "Old Age Echoes": "Sounds of the Winter," "The Unexpress'd," "Sail Out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!," and "After the Argument." Also published in this issue are a full page portrait of Whitman, Whitman's "Some Personal and Old-Age Memoranda" (later published as "Some Personal and Old Age Jottings"), Traubel's "Walt Whitman: Poet and Philosopher and Man," and a review of Whitman's book, November Boughs. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old Age Echoes" Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28.5 x 16.5 cm, 6 x 14 cm attached, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Proof sheet of "Old Age Echoes" with many corrections written in ink, red ink, and pencil. "Old Age Echoes" is a general heading for four poems: "Sounds of the Winter," "The Unexpress'd," "Sail Out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!," and "After the Argument." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00081 Title:  Old Age Echoes | Camden Date: 1889-1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 20.1 by 19.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Lightly revised draft of a poem titled "Sounds of Winter too." "Sounds of the Winter" was one of four poems belonging to the "Old Age Echoes" group first published in Lippincott's Magazine 47 (March 1891) and then reprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891). The writing on the verso (not in Whitman's hand) makes reference to Good-Bye My Fancy and to "Sounds of Winter," as well as to a "Putnam 1902 Edition." There is also a postmark dated 18 October 1889. In brown leather volume of Whitmaniana. Repository: The Oscar Lion Collection of Walt Whitman, The New York Public Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00152 Title:  Old Age Echoes Date: 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 52.5 cm x 21.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The general title, "Old Age Echoes," appears at the top of the page. Beneath that title are two poems with individual titles: "Sounds of the Winter" and "The Unexpress'd." Pasted to the leaf below the second poem is a woodcut engraving of Whitman along with his autograph. The untitled lines directly following the picture and autograph eventually become the poem titled "After the Argument." The three poems were first published together in Lippincott's Magazine, March 1891, under the general title "Old Age Echoes.". Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Spain, 1873-74 Title:  "Spain" Date: March 16, 1873 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is an unsigned draft of the poem "Spain," which was first published in 1873. The poem was later titled "Spain, 1873-74." Repository: Manuscripts Department, Houghton Library, Harvard University

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Sparkles From the Wheel Whitman Archive ID: loc.00299 Title:  [see the profuse sparks like gold] Date: about 1871 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 4 x 17 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  A draft of lines that would be revised and published as "Sparkles From the Wheel" in 1871. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: uva.00234 Title:  Sparkles from the Wheel Date: 1871 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 25.5 x 20 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  First published not in the 1860 Leaves of Grass, but in the separate publication Passage to India in 1871. Whitman penciled in the note "Long Primer / middling wide measure" in the upper left corner of the first leaf, and on the verso of the second wrote and deleted (also in pencil) the note "The worship of God is, honoring his gifts in other men, each according to his genius, & loving the greatest men best. Those who envy or calumniate great men, hate God William Blake[.]" After being bound with the rest of the Passage to India poems as a supplement to Leaves of Grass, in 1881 the poem was permanently transferred to the cluster Autumn Rivulets within the main body of Leaves of Grass. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Specimen Days & Collect (separate volume) Whitman Archive ID: loc.01071 Title:  What The New Jersey Railroads Do Date: about 1879 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A proof-sheet, without annotation, of articles about the New Jersey railroads, which were published in the Philadelphia Times article "Winter Sunshine. A Trip from Camden to the Coast." on January 26, 1879. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Specimen Days Whitman Archive ID: ucb.00002 Title:  Wood Odors Date: ca. 1875 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  A draft of a poem unpublished in Whitman's lifetime entitled "Wood Odors." The poem was apparently written as Whitman was making notes for his 1882-1883 book, Specimen Days. Specifically, the poem appears to respond to the visit he made to the Stafford farm in New Jersey in the mid-1870s. Some have argued that this draft is not a poem at all, but a list of phrases toward the composition of Specimen Days (see David Goodale, "Wood Odors," Walt Whitman Review 8 [March 1962], 17). "Wood Odors" was published first in Harper's Magazine 221 (December 1960), 43. Repository: The Livezey-Walt Whitman Collection, Rare Books and Special Collections, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

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Spirit That Form'd This Scene Whitman Archive ID: loc.00616 Title:  [the arch, the column] Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 20 x 12 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  An early draft of lines related to "Spirit That Form'd this Scene," which was first published in 1881, written in ink and pencil. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00300 Title:  Spirit that form'd this scene Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 20 x 12 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A late draft of "Spirit That Form'd this Scene," which was first published in 1881, written in ink on one side of a sheet and signed in full. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00615 Title:  Spirit that form'd this scene Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 20 x 12 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of "Spirit That Form'd this Scene," which was first published in 1881, written in ink on sheets made from pasting together five strips posted onto another sheet of paper. The date 1881 appears at the top of the sheet. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00131 Title:  Spirit That Form'd This Scene Date: between 1879-1881 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Draft of "Spirit That Form'd This Scene" written in ink, with a few changes, on sheets made by pasting together (some on top) six pieces cut from larger sheets, five strips pasted on a sheet of stationery, and a rougher piece which seems taken from a pad. The manuscript is bound and has a portrait of Whitman at the front. The poem was published in 1881. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Starting from Paumanok Title:  "[(illeg.) Dick Hunt]" Date: 1856-1857 Physical Description: handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  |  31  |  32  |  33  |  34  |  35  |  36  |  37  |  38  |  39  |  40  |  41  |  42  |  43  |  44  |  45  |  46  |  47  |  48  |  49  |  50  |  51  |  52  |  53  |  54  |  55  |  56  |  57  |  58  |  59  |  60  |  61  |  62  |  63  |  64  |  65  |  66  |  67  |  68  |  69  |  70  |  71  |  72  |  73  |  74  |  75  |  76  |  77  |  78  |  79  |  80  |  81  |  82  |  83  |  84  |  85  |  86  |  87  |  88  |  89  |  90  |  91  |  92  |  93  |  94  |  95  |  96  |  97  |  98  |  99  |  100  |  101  |  102  |  103  |  104  |  105  |  106  |  107  |  108  |  109  |  110  |  111  |  112  |  113  |  114  |  115  |  116  |  117  |  118  |  119  |  120  |  121  |  122  |  123  |  124  |  125  |  126  |  127  |  128  |  129  |  130  |  131  |  132  |  133  |  134  |  135  |  136  |  137  |  138  |  139  |  140  |  141  |  142  |  143  |  144  |  145  |  146  |  147  |  148  |  149  |  150  |  151  |  152  |  153  |  154  |  155  |  156  |  157  |  158  |  159  |  160  |  161  |  162  |  163  |  164  |  165  |  166  |  167  |  168  |  169  |  170  |  171  |  172  |  173  |  174  |  175  Content:  A notebook Whitman used for various purposes in the mid-1850s. Edward F. Grier, in his edition of Whitman's Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984. 6 vols.), noted that the notebook contains lines and phrases that relate to several poems: "Song of the Broad-Axe," "To a Common Prostitute," "You Felons on Trial in Courts," "Starting from Paumanok," "Trickle Drops," "I Was Looking for a Long While," "Poem of Joys," "Facing West from California's Shores," "To the States," "A Song of the Rolling Earth," "On the Beach a Night Alone," "Full of Life Now," and "With Antecedents." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "[16th Sept]" Date: undated Physical Description: handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  |  31  |  32  |  33  |  34  |  35  |  36  |  37  |  38  |  39  |  40  |  41  |  42  |  43  |  44  |  45  |  46  |  47  |  48  |  49  |  50  |  51  |  52  |  53  |  54  |  55  |  56  |  57  |  58  |  59  |  60  |  61  |  62  |  63  |  64  |  65  |  66  |  67  |  68  |  69  |  70  |  71  |  72  |  73  |  74  |  75  |  76  |  77  |  78  |  79  |  80  |  81  |  82  |  83  |  84  |  85  |  86  |  87  Content:  An early notebook Whitman used for various purposes. William White, in his edition of Whitman's Daybooks and Notebooks (New York: New York University Press, 1978. 3 vols.), noted a relationship between rough drafts of poems in this notebook (called "An Early Notebook" in White's edition) and the poem "Starting from Paumanok." Drafts of poems also appear under the titles "A Poem of Maternity," "Poem of Remorse," and "Proem." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "[George Walker]" Date: between 1855-1856 Physical Description: handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  A notebook Whitman used for various purposes in the mid-1850s. Edward F. Grier, in his edition of Whitman's Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984. 6 vols), noted that the notebook contains lines and phrases that relate to several poems: "Song of the Broad-Axe," "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Starting from Paumanok," "A Song for Occupations," "By Blue Ontario's Shore," "Salut au Monde!," "To One Shortly to Die," and "A Woman Waits for Me." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: uva.00286 Title:  [O I must not forget] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 14 x 12 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Whitman's use of the tax form and the strong similarity this fragment bears both to the 1856 "Poem of the Road" (later "Song of the Open Road") and to the 1860 "Proto-Leaf" (eventually "Starting from Paumanok") indicate that this may have been a revision of the former poem or, as seems more likely, an early draft of "Proto-Leaf" intended for the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00183 Title:  [Once I passed through a populous] I am the child of Democracy Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 20 x 16 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The recto verses appearing on this manuscript became the main section 9 of "Enfans d'Adam" in 1860 and were retitled "Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City" in 1867. On the verso appear two fragments: an undeleted verse that would be used in Satan's section of "Chanting the Square Deific" in "Sequel to Drum-Taps" (1865-66); and what would become section 23 of "Proto-Leaf", which becomes "Starting from Paumanok" in 1867. The undeleted verse is upside-down relative to the deleted section. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: duk.00020 Title:  [Proem] Date: about 1856 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  These notes on sights in Manhattan and the themes of personality, egotism, and the equality of women may have contributed to what ultimately became "Starting from Paumanok," Section 12. The poem first appeared in the 1860 edition as "Proto-Leaf." Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00275 Title:  [To this continent comes the] Date: 1856-1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 10 x 13 cm pasted to 5 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  These lines share common ideas expressed throughout Leaves of Grass, especially in many of the new poems to the 1860 edition. The strongest verbal echoes appear in the poem "So long!" which expresses very similar ideas and the common words "menacing" and "offspring." The printed words "Leaves of" appearing on the verso indicate that Whitman composed this draft on a piece of paper cover from the 1855 edition. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: duk.00042 Title:  Poem of Materials Date: about 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript contains notes for poetry, including phrases which appear in section 6 of the final version of"Starting from Paumanok" and in "Mediums." The verso is a prose fragment dealing with political independence. The published version of "Mediums," originally "Chants Democratic" No. 16 in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, later appeared as part of "Passage to India" and finally in the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. "Starting from Paumanok" was published first in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass as "Proto-Leaf." Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: loc.00301 Title:  Starting from Paumanok Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 8 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  Content:  Bound proof corrected extensively in Whitman's hand. This correction was probably for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. Opposite a portrait of Whitman, the title page reads, "Starting From Paumanok, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof.— "Starting From Paumanok" was first published as "Proto-Leaf"in 1860. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: uva.00190 Title:  Thought [Of closing up my songs by these] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, leaf 1 9 x 12.5 cm pasted to 17.5 x 13.5 cm, leaf 2 21 x 13.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  The paste-on revision contains an expanded version of the original lines Whitman cut away and apparently discarded. The verso of the paste-on section contains, five undeleted draft lines that would become the final verses of "Proto-Leaf" in the 1860 Leaves of Grass; Whitman's small note in the lower-right corner, in a semi-circle, reads "end of Poem." These "Thought" lines became section 11 of "Chants Democratic" in 1860. In the 1867 Leaves of Grass Whitman combined it with the second "Thought" to form the poem "Thoughts" in the supplement "Songs Before Parting." In 1871 "Thoughts" appeared in the cluster "Songs of Parting" within the main body of Leaves of Grass, and in 1881, it achieved its final position within that cluster. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Suggestions Whitman Archive ID: uva.00227 Title:  Says Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21 x 12.5 cm to 21.5 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  These manuscript lines were revised to form numbered sections 1 through 4 of the ungrouped poem "Says" in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. Whitman cut four verse paragraphs from the poem in the 1867 Leaves of Grass version; from that point on the shortened poem appeared, ungrouped, under the title "Suggestions" until its final appearance in 1876. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00228 Title:  Says Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 12.5 cm to 21.5 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  These manuscript lines were revised to form numbered section 5 of the ungrouped poem "Says" in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. Whitman cut four verse paragraphs in the 1867 Leaves of Grass version; from that point on the shortened poem appeared, ungrouped, under the title "Suggestions" until its final appearance in 1876. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00229 Title:  Says Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 12.5 cm to 21.5 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  These manuscript lines were revised to form numbered section 6 of the ungrouped poem "Says" in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. Whitman cut four verse paragraphs in the 1867 Leaves of Grass version; from that point on the shortened poem appeared, ungrouped, under the title "Suggestions" until its final appearance in 1876. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00230 Title:  Says Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 12.5 cm to 21.5 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  These manuscript lines were revised to form numbered section 7 of the ungrouped poem "Says" in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. Whitman cut four verse paragraphs in the 1867 Leaves of Grass version; from that point on the shortened poem appeared, ungrouped, under the title "Suggestions" until its final appearance in 1876. The cancelled lines on the top section of the manuscript appear to be a draft of lines that were never published but that bear great resemblance to the various "Thoughts" and "Thought (Of . . .)" poems Whitman published throughout the many editions of Leaves of Grass. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Tests Whitman Archive ID: hun.00007 Title:  Tests Date: ca. 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a draft of "Tests," a poem published first in 1860. Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

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Thanks in Old Age Whitman Archive ID: tex.00074 Title:  [Thanks in old age] Date: about 1887 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Heavily revised draft of approximately seven lines of the poem "Thanks in Old Age," which was first published on 24 November 1887 in the Philadelphia Press. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Title:  "Thanks in Old Age" Date: November 24, 1887 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  A clipping from the November 24, 1887 issue of The Republican with Whitman's poem "Thanks in Old Age." The date of the issue is noted in Whitman's hand in the margin. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Thanks in Old Age" Date: about 1887 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  A proof sheet of "Thanks in Old Age" that features a single correction. The poem was published first in 1887. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: tex.00087 Title:  Thanks in Old Age. Date: undated Physical Description: 1 leaf, proof with handwritten comment View Images:  1  Content:  Proof with handwritten addition on publication date by Whitman. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin

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That Music Always Round Me Whitman Archive ID: uva.00253 Title:  [Never fails] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 14 x 15 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The lines, deleted with a single pencil stroke, appear after revision and expansion to have eventually formed part of section 21 of the cluster "Calamus" in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass; in the 1867 edition this section received the title "That Music Always Round Me." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00307 Title:  As of Eternity Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  Content:  On two leaves of pink paper, both 21 x 13 cm, in black ink, with minor revisions in the same ink. Pinholes mostly in center and at top of both pages. This poem became section 21 of "Calamus" in 1860; the lines on the first manuscript page became verses 1-6, and those on the second ("I hear not the volumes of/ sound merely—...") became 7-9. Retitled "That Music Always Round Me" in 1867, it was transferred in 1871 to the "Whispers of Heavenly Death" cluster in Passage to India. In 1881 Whitman incorporated it, with the rest of the cluster, in the main body of Leaves. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: loc.00323 Title:  Whispers of Heavenly Death Date: about 1870 Physical Description: 15 leaves, 20 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  Content:  Mostly mounted clippings of poems taken from Leaves of Grass, stitched and tied with ribbon by Walt Whitman. An autograph title page is followed by pages numbered in red pencil 469-484. One poem, "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," on p. 481 is written entirely in Walt Whitman's hand, and other corrections and additions are in Whitman's hand throughout. The poems included are: "Whispers of Heavenly Death," "Yet, Yet Ye Downcast Hours," "As Nearing Departure" (later published, in a different form, as "As the Time Draws Nigh"), "Darest Thou Now O Soul," "Of Him I Love Day and Night," "Quicksand Years That Whirl Me I Know Not Whither" (later published as "Quicksand Years"), "That Music Always Round Me," "As If a Phantom Caress'd Me," "O Living Always, Always Dying," "Here, Sailor!" (later published as "What Ship Puzzled at Sea"), "A Noiseless Patient Spider," "To One Shortly to Die," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," "This Day, O Soul," "What Place is Besieged?," "The Last Invocation," and "Pensive and Faltering." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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That Shadow My Likeness Whitman Archive ID: uva.00329 Title:  [That shadow] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 17 x 9.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  One one leaf of lined light blue wove paper (17 x 9.5 cm), in pencil, with one pencil revision. Only two sets of pinholes, both in center. This was revised to become section 40 of "Calamus" in 1860; in 1867 it was retitled "That Shadow, My Likeness." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Then Last of All Whitman Archive ID: yal.00054 Title:  [and deeper still] Date: about 1885 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  This is a revised draft of the poem, "Then Last of All," published as part of "Fancies at Navesink" in the magazine, Nineteenth Century, in August 1885. This manuscript is bound with others under the title, "Fancies at Navesink." Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Whitman Archive ID: yal.00055 Title:  [last—Dec 11] Date: about 1885 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a revised draft of the poem, "Then Last of All," published as part of "Fancies at Navesink" in the magazine, Nineteenth Century, in August 1885. The verso of this manuscript is an advertisement for Whitman's book, Drum-Taps. This manuscript is bound with others under the title, "Fancies at Navesink." Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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There was a Child Went Forth Title:  "[med Cophósis]" Date: between 1850-1856 Physical Description: handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  A notebook kept by Whitman in the early to mid-1850s. William White, in his edition of Whitman's Daybooks and Notebooks (New York: New York University Press, 1978. 3 vols.), noted a relationship between this notebook and the poems "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?," "By Blue Ontario's Shore," "Song of the Answerer," and "There Was a Child Went Forth." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: uva.00265 Title:  [The smell of the salt marsh] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 8.5 x 20 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The first line originally read "Odor of the salt marsh, and of the mud and sea-weed[.]" An earlier version of these lines is also associated with proto-"Song of Myself" verses in Library of Congress Notebook #80 ("And the salt marsh and creek have/ delicious odors..."). The "unearthly laugh of the laughing-gull" reappears in what would eventually become line 763 (section 33) of "Song of Myself." Most of the lines were incorporated, however (after further revision), into the tenth poem of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. This poem was titled "Poem of The Child That Went Forth, and Always Goes Forth, Forever and Forever" in the 1856 edition, after which it became number 9 in the 1860 group "Leaves of Grass," number 1 of a different "Leaves of Grass" group in 1867, and, finally, "There Was a Child Went Forth" in the 1872 edition. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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These Carols Whitman Archive ID: loc.00298 Title:  Songs of Parting Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 18 leaves with handwritten annotations, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  Content:  Bound proofs of Whitman's cluster "Songs of Parting," containing 17 poems. Opposite a portrait of Whitman, the title page reads, "Songs of Parting, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof." These corrections were probably for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. The 17 poems included are: "As the Time Draws Nigh," "Ashes of Soldiers," "Years of the Modern," "Thoughts," "Song at Sunset," "My Legacy," "Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All," "Camps of Green," "Bathed in War's Perfume," "Now Finalé to the Shore," "As they Draw to a Close," "The Untold Want," "Portals," "These Carols," "To the Reader at Parting," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," and "So Long." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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These I Singing in Spring Whitman Archive ID: uva.00330 Title:  [These I, singing in spring] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 4 leaves, 20 x 16 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  Content:  These leaves comprise four sections of a poem inscribed on the first and third sides of two folded half-sheets (20 x 16 cm) of the same white wove paper used for 1:3:1 and 1:3:2, in the same light brown ink and, like them, with only minor revisions. The pages were folded and pinned together to form a small pamphlet. Pinholes mostly at center-top and in what was the left margin of the pamphlet. The lines on page 1 became verses 1-8 of section 4 of "Calamus." in 1860; page 2 ("Solitary, smelling the earthy/ smell,...") became verses 9-14; page 3 ("Here lilac with a branch of/ pine,") became verses 15-22; and page 4 ("And stems of currants, and/ plum-blows,") became verses 23-28. From 1867 on the poem was titled "These I, Singing in Spring." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Thick-Sprinkled Bunting Whitman Archive ID: hpl.00001 Title:  [Yet far sweeps your road] Date: about 1865 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of the poem "Thick-Sprinkled Bunting," first published in Drum-Taps in 1865. On the verso is an undated letter draft to an unknown editor regarding Whitman's ambition to "start a public demand for the general exchange of prisoners of war." Repository: Treasures From Walt Whitman, Huntington Public Library, Huntington, New York

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This Compost Whitman Archive ID: duk.00034 Title:  [O Mother, did you think] Date: about 1856 Physical Description: 6 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  Content:  On four leaves, an early version of portions of the poem ultimately titled "This Compost," first printed under the title "Poem of Wonder at The Ressurection of The Wheat" in the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass. On the reverse sides of these leaves is a list of words regarding the physical body and connected in concept to "I Sing the Body Electric," a poem that first appeared as the fourth poem of the 1855 Leaves of Grass. With this list, Whitman was gathering material for the noteworthy final section, a paean to body parts, that he added to the poem in 1856. Glue residue shows that these leaves were formerly pasted to two other leaves, upon which is written a prose manuscript fragment regarding California Vigilance Committees. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Title:  "[the scope of government]" Date: between 1855-1856 Physical Description: handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  A notebook Whitman used for various purposes in the mid-1850s. Edward F. Grier, in his edition of Whitman's Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984. 6 vols.), noted that the notebook contains lines and phrases that relate to several poems: "Assurances," "This Compost," and an unfinished poem entitled "The Insects." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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This Day, O Soul Whitman Archive ID: loc.00323 Title:  Whispers of Heavenly Death Date: about 1870 Physical Description: 15 leaves, 20 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  Content:  Mostly mounted clippings of poems taken from Leaves of Grass, stitched and tied with ribbon by Walt Whitman. An autograph title page is followed by pages numbered in red pencil 469-484. One poem, "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," on p. 481 is written entirely in Walt Whitman's hand, and other corrections and additions are in Whitman's hand throughout. The poems included are: "Whispers of Heavenly Death," "Yet, Yet Ye Downcast Hours," "As Nearing Departure" (later published, in a different form, as "As the Time Draws Nigh"), "Darest Thou Now O Soul," "Of Him I Love Day and Night," "Quicksand Years That Whirl Me I Know Not Whither" (later published as "Quicksand Years"), "That Music Always Round Me," "As If a Phantom Caress'd Me," "O Living Always, Always Dying," "Here, Sailor!" (later published as "What Ship Puzzled at Sea"), "A Noiseless Patient Spider," "To One Shortly to Die," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," "This Day, O Soul," "What Place is Besieged?," "The Last Invocation," and "Pensive and Faltering." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful Whitman Archive ID: uva.00331 Title:  [This moment as I sit alone] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one leaf of white wove paper, in dark brown ink, with revisions in pencil. Pinholes in center and at top. Whitman penciled in the number 6 in the lower-left corner. The fourth poem in the original sequence "Live Oak, with Moss" (with ornamental Roman numeral), it became section 23 of "Calamus" in 1860 and was permanently retitled "This Moment, Yearning and Thoughtful" in 1867. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Thought (Of Equality) Whitman Archive ID: amh.00006 Title:  Thoughts, no. 4 ('Of ownership') Date: 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a late draft of "Thoughts," number 4 ("Of ownership"), which appeared first in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

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Thought (Of Justice) Whitman Archive ID: amh.00006 Title:  Thoughts, no. 4 ('Of ownership') Date: 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a late draft of "Thoughts," number 4 ("Of ownership"), which appeared first in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

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Thought of Columbus, A Whitman Archive ID: loc.00332 Title:  [An impulse thrilling] Date: about 1892 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of lines for "A Thought of Columbus." According to Horace Traubel, this was the last poem Whitman wrote. It was published first in 1892. On the verso is a cut away, undated letter. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00330 Title:  [Deep mystery of mysteries!] Date: about 1892 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of lines for "A Thought of Columbus." According to Horace Traubel, this was the last poem Whitman wrote. It was published first in 1892. On the verso is the end of an undated letter from Mrs. John M. Gardner. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00331 Title:  [Reck'd] Date: about 1892 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of lines for "A Thought of Columbus." According to Horace Traubel, this was the last poem Whitman wrote. It was published first in 1892. On the verso is a cut away, undated letter. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00334 Title:  [The mystery of mysteries!] Date: about 1892 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of lines for "A Thought of Columbus." According to Horace Traubel, this was the last poem Whitman wrote. It was published first in 1892. The draft is written on an opened-up envelope from J. H. Johnston postmarked October 30, 1891. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00329 Title:  [The tangled long] Date: about 1892 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of lines for "A Thought of Columbus." According to Horace Traubel, this was the last poem Whitman wrote. It was published first in 1892. On the verso is a letter from Henry Hopkins dated November 2, 1891. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00328 Title:  A Thought of Columbus Date: 1892 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A complete draft of "A Thought of Columbus" written on two long strips of various fragments pasted together and three smaller pieces. According to Horace Traubel, this was the last poem Whitman wrote. It was published first in 1892. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00333 Title:  A Thought of Columbus Date: about 1892 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of lines for "A Thought of Columbus." According to Horace Traubel, this was the last poem Whitman wrote. It was published first in 1892. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "A Thought of Columbus" Date: 1892 Content:  Clipping of the facsimile printing of the "A Thought of Columbus" manuscript from the July 9, 1892 issue of Once A Week. Also included is a clipping of Traubel's article entitled "Walt Whitman's Last Poem" that appeared in the July 16, 1892 issue. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "A Thought of Columbus" Date: July 2 and 9, 1892 Content:  Copies of the July 2, 1892 and July 9, 1892 issues of Once a Week with Whitman's poem "A Thought Of Columbus" in an illustrated, printed form and manuscript facsimile. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: uva.00070 Title:  A Thought of Columbus Date: 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12.5 cm x 25 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of "A Thought of Columbus," a poem first published on July 16, 1892, in Once a Week, accompanied by Horace Traubel's account of its composition, called "Walt Whitman's Last Poem." This manuscript is a draft of only the first six lines and is dated 1891. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: loc.00335 Title:  Columbus Date: 1892 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  A brown envelope that Horace Traubel said contained the manuscript of "A Thought of Columbus" that Whitman gave him shortly before he died in 1892. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Thoughts (Of ownership) Whitman Archive ID: amh.00007 Title:  Thoughts, no. 4 ('Of ownership') Date: about 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a tearsheet of "Thoughts," number 4 ("Of ownership"), from the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. On the back are cancelled portions of "Thoughts," number 2 ("Of waters, forests, hills"), and "Thoughts," number 3 ("Of persons"). Repository: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections Whitman Archive ID: amh.00006 Title:  Thoughts, no. 4 ('Of ownership') Date: 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a late draft of "Thoughts," number 4 ("Of ownership"), which appeared first in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

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Thoughts Whitman Archive ID: uva.00230 Title:  Says Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 12.5 cm to 21.5 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  These manuscript lines were revised to form numbered section 7 of the ungrouped poem "Says" in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. Whitman cut four verse paragraphs in the 1867 Leaves of Grass version; from that point on the shortened poem appeared, ungrouped, under the title "Suggestions" until its final appearance in 1876. The cancelled lines on the top section of the manuscript appear to be a draft of lines that were never published but that bear great resemblance to the various "Thoughts" and "Thought (Of . . .)" poems Whitman published throughout the many editions of Leaves of Grass. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: loc.00298 Title:  Songs of Parting Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 18 leaves with handwritten annotations, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  Content:  Bound proofs of Whitman's cluster "Songs of Parting," containing 17 poems. Opposite a portrait of Whitman, the title page reads, "Songs of Parting, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof." These corrections were probably for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. The 17 poems included are: "As the Time Draws Nigh," "Ashes of Soldiers," "Years of the Modern," "Thoughts," "Song at Sunset," "My Legacy," "Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All," "Camps of Green," "Bathed in War's Perfume," "Now Finalé to the Shore," "As they Draw to a Close," "The Untold Want," "Portals," "These Carols," "To the Reader at Parting," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," and "So Long." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: hun.00005 Title:  Thought Date: ca. 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript is part of a draft of "Thoughts," a poem first published in 1860. Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Whitman Archive ID: hun.00003 Title:  Thought. Date: ca. 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript is part of a draft of "Thoughts," a poem first published in 1860. Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Whitman Archive ID: uva.00190 Title:  Thought [Of closing up my songs by these] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, leaf 1 9 x 12.5 cm pasted to 17.5 x 13.5 cm, leaf 2 21 x 13.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  The paste-on revision contains an expanded version of the original lines Whitman cut away and apparently discarded. The verso of the paste-on section contains, five undeleted draft lines that would become the final verses of "Proto-Leaf" in the 1860 Leaves of Grass; Whitman's small note in the lower-right corner, in a semi-circle, reads "end of Poem." These "Thought" lines became section 11 of "Chants Democratic" in 1860. In the 1867 Leaves of Grass Whitman combined it with the second "Thought" to form the poem "Thoughts" in the supplement "Songs Before Parting." In 1871 "Thoughts" appeared in the cluster "Songs of Parting" within the main body of Leaves of Grass, and in 1881, it achieved its final position within that cluster. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00189 Title:  Thought [Of these years I sing] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, leaf 1 21.5 x 13 cm, leaf 2 18.5 x 12.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  Whitman inscribed and circled the note "2d/ piece/ in Book" in the upper-right corner of the first leaf. The small top section is inscribed on the verso of some deleted draft verses excised from "So Long!". "Thought" became section 9 of "Chants Democratic" in 1860. In the 1867 Leaves of Grass Whitman combined it with the second "Thought" to form the poem "Thoughts" in the supplement "Songs Before Parting." (This particular "Thought" was numbered section 1 of the composite poem.) In 1871 "Thoughts" appeared in the cluster "Songs of Parting" within the main body of Leaves of Grass, and in 1881, it achieved its final position within that cluster. These leaves correspond to the verses in the 1860 "Chants Democratic" version. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: hun.00002 Title:  Thoughts Date: ca. 1860 Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  Content:  These leaves form part of a draft of "Thoughts," a poem first published in 1860. Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Whitman Archive ID: hun.00004 Title:  Thoughts. Date: ca. 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is part of a draft of "Thoughts," a poem first published in 1860. Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

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Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood Whitman Archive ID: unc.00001 Title:  [Land of the potent-large!] Date: undated Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  This manuscript includes a fragment of a poem, approximately seven lines, that is possibly from an early draft of "As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free," a poem Whitman originally wrote for the June 1872 Dartmouth College commencement exercises. This poem was later revised and published as "Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood." Repository: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Whitman Archive ID: uva.00112 Title:  [Lo, where arise three peerless stars] Date: 1886 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 25 x 19.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript is a signed fair copy of three verses from numbered section 6 of the 1881 Leaves of Grass version of a poem published under the title "Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood"; his note "Leaves of Grass/ page 350," corresponding to the pagination of the 1881 edition, appears beneath the lines. Whitman seems to have prepared this copy for an admirer, with his signature appearing in huge letters above the lines "Camden New Jersey / April 19 1886—." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: loc.00310 Title:  [Thee, in thy orbic singers] Date: about 1872 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  Content:  A draft of lines that would appear, in a revised form, first in "As A Strong Bird on Pinions Free" in 1872, and later under the title "Thou Mother With Thy Equal Brood." Also included on this draft are several notes by Traubel and two sketches. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: yal.00021 Title:  [the Idea of All] Date: about 1872 Physical Description: 16 leaves, 6.25 x 3.5 in., handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  Content:  These leaves are pages from a top-bound notebook containing draft lines of poetry, apparently for a poem delivered at the Dartmouth College commencement in June 1872 and first published under the title, "As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free," later revised and published as "Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood." Many of the pages have been cut out or trimmed, and seven envelope faces have been attached at the back of the notebook. Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00113 Title:  [The Time and Lands] Date: about 1872 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 18.5 x 18.5 cm to 20 x 18 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  The first two entries on Leaf 1 appear to contain general notes for a poem; the second entry reads, "Make a demand for the Ideal, (or rather idea of the Ideal of the real)." The lines are followed by the note "in the piece," which leads up to several trial verses eventually incorporated in the second verse paragraph of numbered section 5 of "Thou Mother With Thy Equal Brood." The accompanying leaf contains general notes about creating a song or chant to celebrate America and her "best men." A cartoon hand singles out the lines "All the states / East & west, / north & south / Brotherhood / an equal union" which prefigure the whole poem, but particularly such lines as "South, North, West, East, / (To thy immortal breasts, Mother of All, thy every daughter, / son, endear'd alike, forever equal,)" in the same section projected on Leaf 1. The poem "Thou Mother With Thy Equal Brood" was composed with the title "As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free" and presented as the Dartmouth commencement poem on June 26, 1872. The poem was first published in a volume of the same name with seven other poems also in 1872. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: loc.00621 Title:  America! thee formulating Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 13 x 20.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of a poem entitled "America! thee formulating." The lines were incorporated as lines 90 and 91 in the poem "Thy Mother with Thy Equal Brood," first published in 1881. On the verso are lines that appears to be a trial titles: "Voices at Early Candle-Light" and "Hurry-Notes." Repository: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress, 1842-1937 Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00003 Title:  As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free Date: around 1872 Physical Description: 14 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  Content:  A copy of "As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free" with directions to the printer, as returned to Whitman from the printing office. "As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free" was first published in the New York Herald on 26 June 1872. This poem was later published with seven other poems in a pamphlet, As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free (1872). It was later included as a supplement bound with Two Rivulets (1876). Later, Whitman changed the title to "Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood", added a new opening stanza, and additional revisions, and incorporated the poem into Leaves of Grass (1881-82). This manuscript was presented by the author to Richard J. Hinton, and in turn presented by the latter to J. H. Johnston. Repository: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library Whitman Archive ID: wau.00001 Title:  Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood Date: undated Physical Description: 8 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  Content:  This is a printed proof with heavy corrections in Whitman's hand of the poem, "Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood," which was first published in the 1881–82 edition of Leaves of Grass. The poem is a revision of "As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free," which was delivered at the Dartmouth College commencement in June 1872. Repository: George N. Meissner Collection, Department of Special Collections, Washington University Libraries, Washington University

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Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling Whitman Archive ID: loc.00084 Title:  Thou Orb Aloft Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 11 x 19 to 23 x 19 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A two-page draft of the poem published first in 1881 as "A Summer Invocation," then published later that year with the title "Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling." Repository: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress, 1842-1937

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Thou West that gave'st him to us Whitman Archive ID: loc.00051 Title:  [Beat! Beat! Drums!] Date: 1860-1865 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  One leaf with a draft of the first stanza of "Beat! Beat! Drums!", first published simultaneously in Harper's Weekly and in the New York Leader on September 28, 1861. On the verso are lines on the death of President Lincoln, known as "[Thou West that gave'st him to us]" and first published in a Facsimile Edition of Drum-Taps in 1959. (Note: Early cataloguers incorrectly identified this fragment as part of "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd.") Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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To a Certain Cantatrice Whitman Archive ID: upa.00002 Title:  Poem for the good old cause and Poem of the People Date: undated Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  This manuscript includes Whitman's notes toward two possible poems, neither of which can be conclusively connected to any of Whitman's published poems. The first, however, bears some resemblance to "To a Cantatrice," published in the "Messenger Leaves" cluster of the 1860 Leaves of Grass. Whitman later ungrouped and permanently retitled this poem as "To a Certain Cantatrice" for the 1867 Leaves of Grass. Whitman Archive ID: uva.00215 Title:  To a Cantatrice Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 9 x 16 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This poem was first titled "To an artist," then "To an architect"; the smudged-out words "Lecture[s] / To" appear in light ink in the upper-left corner. These lines were revised and published under the title "To a Cantatrice" in the "Messenger Leaves" cluster of 1860. After being ungrouped and permanently retitled "To A Certain Cantatrice" in 1867, it was revised for inclusion in the cluster "Songs of Insurrection" in the 1872 and 1876 Leaves of Grass. In 1881 it was finally transferred to the cluster "Inscriptions". On one section of the same leaf of white ruled laid paper used for "To a Historian," and with another fragment of the same pencil draft of the speech or essay "Slavery—the Slaveholders—/ —The Constitution—the/ true America and Ameri-/ cans, the laboring persons.—" on verso. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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To a Common Prostitute Title:  "[(illeg.) Dick Hunt]" Date: 1856-1857 Physical Description: handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  |  31  |  32  |  33  |  34  |  35  |  36  |  37  |  38  |  39  |  40  |  41  |  42  |  43  |  44  |  45  |  46  |  47  |  48  |  49  |  50  |  51  |  52  |  53  |  54  |  55  |  56  |  57  |  58  |  59  |  60  |  61  |  62  |  63  |  64  |  65  |  66  |  67  |  68  |  69  |  70  |  71  |  72  |  73  |  74  |  75  |  76  |  77  |  78  |  79  |  80  |  81  |  82  |  83  |  84  |  85  |  86  |  87  |  88  |  89  |  90  |  91  |  92  |  93  |  94  |  95  |  96  |  97  |  98  |  99  |  100  |  101  |  102  |  103  |  104  |  105  |  106  |  107  |  108  |  109  |  110  |  111  |  112  |  113  |  114  |  115  |  116  |  117  |  118  |  119  |  120  |  121  |  122  |  123  |  124  |  125  |  126  |  127  |  128  |  129  |  130  |  131  |  132  |  133  |  134  |  135  |  136  |  137  |  138  |  139  |  140  |  141  |  142  |  143  |  144  |  145  |  146  |  147  |  148  |  149  |  150  |  151  |  152  |  153  |  154  |  155  |  156  |  157  |  158  |  159  |  160  |  161  |  162  |  163  |  164  |  165  |  166  |  167  |  168  |  169  |  170  |  171  |  172  |  173  |  174  |  175  Content:  A notebook Whitman used for various purposes in the mid-1850s. Edward F. Grier, in his edition of Whitman's Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984. 6 vols.), noted that the notebook contains lines and phrases that relate to several poems: "Song of the Broad-Axe," "To a Common Prostitute," "You Felons on Trial in Courts," "Starting from Paumanok," "Trickle Drops," "I Was Looking for a Long While," "Poem of Joys," "Facing West from California's Shores," "To the States," "A Song of the Rolling Earth," "On the Beach a Night Alone," "Full of Life Now," and "With Antecedents." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: hun.00008 Title:  To a Common Prostitute Title:  To the Future Date: ca. 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a draft of "To a Common Prostitute," a poem published first in 1860. On the reverse is a draft of the poem "To the Future." Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

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To a Historian Whitman Archive ID: uva.00191 Title:  To a Historian Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 20 x 16 cm pasted to 11 x 16 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  After undergoing extensive revisions, in 1860 "To a Historian" became section 10 of "Chants Democratic." In 1867 Whitman deleted five verses, transferred the poem to the supplement "Songs Before Parting," and permanently retitled it "To a Historian." It appeared as the fifth poem in the opening cluster "Inscriptions" in the 1872 and all later editions. On the verso appear fragments of pencil notes for a speech or essay Whitman wrote (most likely) in 1856, and revised in 1858, under the working title "Slavery—the Slaveholders—/ —The Constitution—the true America and Americans, the laboring persons—." The verso of another manuscript in this collection entitled "To a Cantatrice.—" contains an additional fragment of these notes. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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To a Locomotive in Winter Whitman Archive ID: bpl.00006 Title:  To a Locomotive in Winter Date: ca. 1876 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  This is a two-page draft of "To a Locomotive in Winter," first published in 1876. It appears that originally the two leaves were pasted together as one piece, but have since come apart. On the verso of page two is a draft of an unpublished poem entitled "The Soul and the Poet" which may be a draft of the poem "Come, said my Soul," the epigraph for the 1876, 1882, and 1891-1892 editions of Leaves of Grass. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Boston Public Library

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To a Pupil Whitman Archive ID: uva.00213 Title:  To a Pupil Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 12 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The manuscript bears the title "To a Pupil"; however, the original title seems to have been cut away. This poem was revised somewhat and published under the same title in the "Messenger Leaves" cluster of the 1860 Leaves of Grass. It was ungrouped in 1867, transferred to a "Leaves of Grass" group within the "Passage to India" supplement in 1872 (also 1876), and finally moved to the cluster "Autumn Rivulets" within Leaves of Grass in 1881. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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To a Stranger Whitman Archive ID: uva.00334 Title:  To A Stranger Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  On two leaves of pink paper, both 21 x 13 cm, in black ink, with revisions in the same ink and in light ink. Pinholes mostly in center and in left margin of each page. This poem was first numbered 94, and the first word was "Stranger"; Whitman penciled in a question mark, in parentheses, next to the title. It was numbered section 22 of "Calamus" in 1860: the lines on the first page correspond to verses 1-6 of the 1860 version, and those on the second ("You give me the pleasure") to verses 7-10. Whitman reintroduced the title "To a Stranger" in the 1867 Leaves. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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To a Western Boy Whitman Archive ID: uva.00337 Title:  [To the young man] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 15 x 9 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one leaf of white wove paper (15 x 9 cm), in black ink, with revisions in the same ink and in pencil. Whitman also penciled in the page number 16 in the lower-left corner. Pinholes in center and at top. This page bears the same papermaker's mark as 1:3:35. Twelfth in the original sequence "Live Oak, with Moss" (with ornamental Roman numeral), it became section 42 of "Calamus" in 1860. In 1867 Whitman changed the poem to an apostrophe, adding the first line "O Boy of the West!" (later removed) and permanently retitling it "To a Western Boy." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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To-day and Thee Whitman Archive ID: uva.00169 Title:  [To-day] Date: 1887 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Manuscript draft of a poem first appearing in print in the New York Herald, April 23, 1888 entitled "To-day and Thee". A note in the top margin: "sent April 21 to Herald" indicates that the draft was likely completed around the time of publication. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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To Foreign Lands Whitman Archive ID: hun.00009 Title:  To Other Lands Date: ca. 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a draft of "To Other Lands," a poem first published in 1860 and later revised and retitled "To Foreign Lands." Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

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To Get the Final Lilt of Songs Whitman Archive ID: amh.00001 Title:  A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine and To Get the Final Lilt of Songs Date: 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, View Images:  1  Content:  This is an uncorrected galley proof of "A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine" and "To Get the Final Lilt of Songs," both of which were first published in separate issues of the New York Herald in 1888. This date is written on the leaf, possibly in Whitman's hand. The first published title of "To Get the Final Lilt of Songs" was "The Final Lilt of Songs." Repository: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections Title:  "Old Age's Lambent Peaks" Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 34.5 x 15 cm Images: forthcoming Content:  Two copies of a proof sheet with three poems: "Old Age's Lambent Peaks," "A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine," "To Get the Final Lilt of Songs," all published first in 1888. No annotations on the sheets. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old Age's Lambent Peaks" Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 33 x 15 cm; envelope 10.5 x 13 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  An edited proof sheet with three poems: "Old Age's Lambent Peaks," "A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine," "To Get the Final Lilt of Songs," all published first in 1888. In addition to corrections, Whitman has written a note to the printer at the top of the page. Also included is an envelope with "printer's proofs, short poems, Walt Whitman, 1888, (autographic)" written on it. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00311 Title:  To Get the Final Lilt of Songs Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Proof sheet of "To Get the Final Lilt of Songs," which was first published in 1888. A note reading "publ'd in Herald April 16 '88" in Whitman's hand is written at the bottom of the page. Otherwise, no annotations are on the sheet. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: tex.00086 Title:  To Get the Final Lilt of Songs, Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  First published in the New York Herald, April 16, 1888, under the title "The Final Lilt of Songs." Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin

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To Him That was Crucified Whitman Archive ID: hun.00013 Title:  To Him That Was Crucified Date: ca. 1860 Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  Content:  This is a draft of "To Him That Was Crucified," a poem first published in 1860. Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

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To One Shortly to Die Title:  "[George Walker]" Date: between 1855-1856 Physical Description: handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  A notebook Whitman used for various purposes in the mid-1850s. Edward F. Grier, in his edition of Whitman's Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984. 6 vols), noted that the notebook contains lines and phrases that relate to several poems: "Song of the Broad-Axe," "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Starting from Paumanok," "A Song for Occupations," "By Blue Ontario's Shore," "Salut au Monde!," "To One Shortly to Die," and "A Woman Waits for Me." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: uva.00280 Title:  [I must not deceive you—you are to die] Date: 1855-1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 4 x 14.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The verso lines (beginning "[I] and nobody else am the greatest traitor,") represent a later draft than similar verses in Library of Congress Notebook #80 of what would eventually become part of section 28 of "Song of Myself." The recto lines were revised to form part of the 1860 poem "To One Shortly To Die." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00278 Title:  [Remember if you are dying] Date: 1855-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 8 x 15.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The verso lines (beginning "[sl]ueing,/...[be ]nding,/...halt in the shade,") represent a fragment of a polished pre-1855-publication draft of lines that would eventually belong in section 13 of "Song of Myself." Whitman used this leaf at some point after 1855 to jot down the recto verses perpendicular to the ruled lines. These seem to constitute a complete but very early draft of the poem "To One Shortly To Die," first published in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass in the cluster "Messenger Leaves." In the upper right corner of the recto appear the words "note / last page of 'Ghost-seers'" in Whitman's hand, suggesting that he had considered forming a cluster under this title, never published, in Leaves of Grass, perhaps in the 1860 edition. The phrase "Ghost-seers" recalls a statement regarding Emerson in "Leaves-Droppings," a section of correspondence and commentary Whitman appended to the 1856 edition: "[Emerson] sees the future of truths as our Spirit-seers discern the future of man..." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00211 Title:  To One Shortly To Die Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  Originally numbered 95 and then changed to 96. This poem was published under the title "To One Shortly to Die", with only minor revisions, in the 1860 "Messenger Leaves" cluster. In 1871, Whitman made small but significant additions to the poem and transferred it to the supplement "Passage to India." In 1881 it was finally moved to the cluster "Whispers of Heavenly Death." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: loc.00323 Title:  Whispers of Heavenly Death Date: about 1870 Physical Description: 15 leaves, 20 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  Content:  Mostly mounted clippings of poems taken from Leaves of Grass, stitched and tied with ribbon by Walt Whitman. An autograph title page is followed by pages numbered in red pencil 469-484. One poem, "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," on p. 481 is written entirely in Walt Whitman's hand, and other corrections and additions are in Whitman's hand throughout. The poems included are: "Whispers of Heavenly Death," "Yet, Yet Ye Downcast Hours," "As Nearing Departure" (later published, in a different form, as "As the Time Draws Nigh"), "Darest Thou Now O Soul," "Of Him I Love Day and Night," "Quicksand Years That Whirl Me I Know Not Whither" (later published as "Quicksand Years"), "That Music Always Round Me," "As If a Phantom Caress'd Me," "O Living Always, Always Dying," "Here, Sailor!" (later published as "What Ship Puzzled at Sea"), "A Noiseless Patient Spider," "To One Shortly to Die," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," "This Day, O Soul," "What Place is Besieged?," "The Last Invocation," and "Pensive and Faltering." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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To Rich Givers Whitman Archive ID: uva.00212 Title:  To Rich Givers Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  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. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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To the Garden the World Whitman Archive ID: uva.00023 Title:  [City of my walks and joys] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 8.5 x 10 cm pasted to 20 x 16 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On a composite leaf consisting of two pieces of white wove paper. The smaller section is pasted over some lines in the top-left corner of the larger piece, from the top of which other lines were cut off. On the verso of the larger piece appears an extensively revised pencil draft of the first poem in "Enfans d'Adam". The group first appeard in print in 1860 with this poem as section 1. The poem was permanently titled "To the Garden of the World" in 1867. The verses on the current recto of the composite leaf became section 18 of "Calamus" in 1860; the poem was permanently titled "City of Orgies" in 1867. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00180 Title:  Leaves-Droppings Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 16 x 10 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  After being incorporated as the first main section of "Enfans d'Adam" in 1860, this poem received its own title, "To the Garden, the World" in the 1867 Leaves of Grass and retained its position in the "Children of Adam" group. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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To the Man-of-War-Bird Whitman Archive ID: loc.00257 Title:  [Bursts the wild storm?] Date: about 1876 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  A heavily edited draft of "Thou Who Hast Slept All Night Upon the Storm," first published in 1876 and later known as "To the Man-of-War-Bird." The draft is accompanied by a piece of paper labeled "Thou who hast slept all night upon the storm—rough MS. proof and, final copy printed in London Athenaeum, April 1876, WW. Camden, March 1876." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: yal.00005 Title:  The Man-of-War Bird Date: about 1876 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript is a note by Whitman for the poem, "To the Man-of-War Bird," first published in 1876. Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Whitman Archive ID: loc.00314 Title:  Thou Who Hast Slept All Night Upon the Storm Date: between 1876-1878 Physical Description: 4 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  Content:  Printed copies of "Thou Who Hast Slept All Night Upon the Storm"(later published as "To the Man-of-War-Bird") with bibliographic notations and corrections in Whitman's hand. The clippings are from the Philadelphia Progress (November 16, 1878) and the London Athenaeum (April 1, 1876). Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: tex.00049 Title:  To THE MAN-OF-WAR-BIRD Date: about 1878 Physical Description: 1 leaf, proof with corrections View Images:  1  Content:  Clipping of "The Man-of-War-Bird," with handwritten revisions, from the November 16, 1878 Philadelphia Progress. The poem had first appeared in the London Athenaeum, on 1 April 1876. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin

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To the Pending Year Whitman Archive ID: loc.00192 Title:  Down, down, proud gorge Date: about 1889 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28 x 21.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of a poem titled "Down, down, proud gorge". At the bottom of the same leaf is another draft of a poem entitled "Are they last words?" These drafts were later greatly revised and published in 1889 with the title "To the Year 1889." It was later re-titled "To the Pending Year." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00083 Title:  Have I no word for thee | To the Year 1889 Date: about 1889 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12.5 by 19.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  About seven lines, with revisions, toward the poem "To the Year 1889." The writing on the verso (not in Whitman's hand) makes reference to the title of this poem, as well as to Good Bye My Fancy and a "Putnam 1902 Edition." "To the Year 1889" was published first on January 5, 1889, in the Critic. The poem was later retitled "To the Pending Year." In brown leather volume of Whitmaniana. Repository: The Oscar Lion Collection of Walt Whitman, The New York Public Library Whitman Archive ID: loc.00077 Title:  To the Year 1889 Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 19 x 21.25 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  An early draft of "To the Year 1889," first published in January 5, 1889. The poem was later published under the title "To the Pending Year." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00316 Title:  To the Year 1889 Date: about 1889 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Proof sheet of "To the Year 1889" (first published in 1889 and later under the title "To the Pending Year") with a bibliographic notation in Whitman's hand. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "To the Year 1889" Date: about 1889 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  A proof of the poem "To the Year 1889," first published in 1889, with a note in Whitman's hand about its publication in the Critic. The poem was later published as "To the Pending Year." Repository: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress, 1842-1937 Whitman Archive ID: yal.00007 Title:  To the Year 1889 Date: about 1889 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a late draft of "To the Year 1889," published first on January 5, 1889, in the Critic. The poem was later retitled, "To the Pending Year," and appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy in 1891. Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Whitman Archive ID: tex.00050 Title:  To the Year 1889, Date: 1889 Physical Description: 1 leaf, proof View Images:  1  Content:  Page proof with handwritten information on the poem's initial publication in the Critic on 5 January 1889. "To the Year 1889" was published first on January 5, 1889, in the Critic. The poem was later retitled "To the Pending Year." Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin

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To the Reader at Parting Whitman Archive ID: loc.00298 Title:  Songs of Parting Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 18 leaves with handwritten annotations, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  Content:  Bound proofs of Whitman's cluster "Songs of Parting," containing 17 poems. Opposite a portrait of Whitman, the title page reads, "Songs of Parting, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof." These corrections were probably for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. The 17 poems included are: "As the Time Draws Nigh," "Ashes of Soldiers," "Years of the Modern," "Thoughts," "Song at Sunset," "My Legacy," "Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All," "Camps of Green," "Bathed in War's Perfume," "Now Finalé to the Shore," "As they Draw to a Close," "The Untold Want," "Portals," "These Carols," "To the Reader at Parting," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," and "So Long." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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To the States, To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad Whitman Archive ID: uva.00214 Title:  A Past Presidentiad, and one to come also Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  Whitman wrote and deleted the date 1858 in blue pencil in the upper right corner of the first leaf, and inscribed the same date in normal pencil in the lower left corner of the second leaf. This poem became "To The States, To Identify the 16th, 17th, or 18th Presidentiad" in the cluster "Messenger Leaves" in the 1860 Leaves of Grass. Ungrouped in 1867, it was transferred in 1872 to a "Leaves of Grass" group within the main body. In 1881 it was finally transferred to the cluster "By the Roadside". Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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To the States Title:  "[(illeg.) Dick Hunt]" Date: 1856-1857 Physical Description: handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  |  31  |  32  |  33  |  34  |  35  |  36  |  37  |  38  |  39  |  40  |  41  |  42  |  43  |  44  |  45  |  46  |  47  |  48  |  49  |  50  |  51  |  52  |  53  |  54  |  55  |  56  |  57  |  58  |  59  |  60  |  61  |  62  |  63  |  64  |  65  |  66  |  67  |  68  |  69  |  70  |  71  |  72  |  73  |  74  |  75  |  76  |  77  |  78  |  79  |  80  |  81  |  82  |  83  |  84  |  85  |  86  |  87  |  88  |  89  |  90  |  91  |  92  |  93  |  94  |  95  |  96  |  97  |  98  |  99  |  100  |  101  |  102  |  103  |  104  |  105  |  106  |  107  |  108  |  109  |  110  |  111  |  112  |  113  |  114  |  115  |  116  |  117  |  118  |  119  |  120  |  121  |  122  |  123  |  124  |  125  |  126  |  127  |  128  |  129  |  130  |  131  |  132  |  133  |  134  |  135  |  136  |  137  |  138  |  139  |  140  |  141  |  142  |  143  |  144  |  145  |  146  |  147  |  148  |  149  |  150  |  151  |  152  |  153  |  154  |  155  |  156  |  157  |  158  |  159  |  160  |  161  |  162  |  163  |  164  |  165  |  166  |  167  |  168  |  169  |  170  |  171  |  172  |  173  |  174  |  175  Content:  A notebook Whitman used for various purposes in the mid-1850s. Edward F. Grier, in his edition of Whitman's Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984. 6 vols.), noted that the notebook contains lines and phrases that relate to several poems: "Song of the Broad-Axe," "To a Common Prostitute," "You Felons on Trial in Courts," "Starting from Paumanok," "Trickle Drops," "I Was Looking for a Long While," "Poem of Joys," "Facing West from California's Shores," "To the States," "A Song of the Rolling Earth," "On the Beach a Night Alone," "Full of Life Now," and "With Antecedents." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: amh.00009 Title:  Walt Whitman's Caution Date: about 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a draft of "Walt Whitman's Caution," a poem first appearing as one of the "Messenger Leaves" in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. The title of the poem was later changed to "To the States." Repository: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections

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To the Sun-set Breeze Whitman Archive ID: tex.00053 Title:  To the sunset breeze Date: 1889 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Heavily revised intermediate draft, approximately sixteen lines, of "To the Sun-set Breeze," which was first published in Lippincott's Magazine in December 1890. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Whitman Archive ID: loc.00315 Title:  To the Sunset Breeze Date: about 1890 Physical Description: 5 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  Content:  These proofs of "To a Sunset Breeze" show notations and corrections in Whitman's hand. The poem was first published in 1890. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: tex.00051 Title:  To the Sunset Breeze Date: about 1889 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This heavily revised early draft of "To the Sun-set Breeze" was first published in Lippincott's Magazine in December 1890. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Whitman Archive ID: tex.00052 Title:  To the sunset breeze. Date: about 1890 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Printer's copy, sixteen lines, with minor revisions. "To the Sun-set Breeze" was first published in Lippincott's Magazine in December 1890. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin

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To Think of Time Whitman Archive ID: tul.00002 Title:  [Poem—a perfect school] and [The three or four poets are well] Date: undated Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Original autograph manuscript of Whitman's notes for a poem about "a perfect school." On the verso are lines, beginning "The three or four poets are well," that were included, in a revised form, in Whitman's poem "To Think of Time," first published without a title in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, as "Burial Poem" in 1856, "Burial" in 1860 and 1867, and under its final title in 1871. Repository: Walt Whitman Ephemera, University of Tulsa Whitman Archive ID: duk.00032 Title:  [You lusty and graceflu youth!] Date: between 1850 and 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  An early version of a part of "Great Are the Myths," a poem published first, untitled, in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass as the concluding poem, and again in the 1856 edition as "Poem of a Few Greatnesses." The poem went through many revisions through the different editions of Leaves of Grass, then was permanently dropped in 1881, except the two couplets that became the poem "Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night." On the verso is partially cancelled verse beginning "Are the prostitutes nothing?" which is a draft of lines from the third poem in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, ultimately called "To Think of Time." Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: tex.00057 Title:  And to me each minute of the night Date: before 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  About ten draft lines from the opening poem of the 1855 Leaves of Grass, ultimately called "Song of Myself." This manuscript passage is made up of versions of lines from numerous places widely scattered in the first published version of the poem (and of the 1855 preface). Various lines from this one passage appear in widely scattered places: in the final version of "Song of Myself," they appear in sections 5, 13, 16, 31, 36, and 43, while other pieces appear in the poem eventually entitled "To Think of Time" and the pre-1855 manuscript poem "Pictures." The verso features a list of poems as an alternative plan for structuring the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin

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To Those Who've Fail'd Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00053 Title:  [? A laurel wreath] Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Heavily revised draft of the poem "To Those Who've Fail'd." The poem was published in the New York Herald on 27 January 1888 and later reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888). Repository: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library

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Trickle Drops Title:  "[(illeg.) Dick Hunt]" Date: 1856-1857 Physical Description: handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  |  31  |  32  |  33  |  34  |  35  |  36  |  37  |  38  |  39  |  40  |  41  |  42  |  43  |  44  |  45  |  46  |  47  |  48  |  49  |  50  |  51  |  52  |  53  |  54  |  55  |  56  |  57  |  58  |  59  |  60  |  61  |  62  |  63  |  64  |  65  |  66  |  67  |  68  |  69  |  70  |  71  |  72  |  73  |  74  |  75  |  76  |  77  |  78  |  79  |  80  |  81  |  82  |  83  |  84  |  85  |  86  |  87  |  88  |  89  |  90  |  91  |  92  |  93  |  94  |  95  |  96  |  97  |  98  |  99  |  100  |  101  |  102  |  103  |  104  |  105  |  106  |  107  |  108  |  109  |  110  |  111  |  112  |  113  |  114  |  115  |  116  |  117  |  118  |  119  |  120  |  121  |  122  |  123  |  124  |  125  |  126  |  127  |  128  |  129  |  130  |  131  |  132  |  133  |  134  |  135  |  136  |  137  |  138  |  139  |  140  |  141  |  142  |  143  |  144  |  145  |  146  |  147  |  148  |  149  |  150  |  151  |  152  |  153  |  154  |  155  |  156  |  157  |  158  |  159  |  160  |  161  |  162  |  163  |  164  |  165  |  166  |  167  |  168  |  169  |  170  |  171  |  172  |  173  |  174  |  175  Content:  A notebook Whitman used for various purposes in the mid-1850s. Edward F. Grier, in his edition of Whitman's Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984. 6 vols.), noted that the notebook contains lines and phrases that relate to several poems: "Song of the Broad-Axe," "To a Common Prostitute," "You Felons on Trial in Courts," "Starting from Paumanok," "Trickle Drops," "I Was Looking for a Long While," "Poem of Joys," "Facing West from California's Shores," "To the States," "A Song of the Rolling Earth," "On the Beach a Night Alone," "Full of Life Now," and "With Antecedents." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: uva.00311 Title:  Confession-Drops Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21.5 x 12 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Written on a light blue Williamsburgh tax blank, this poem became section 15 of "Calamus" in 1860, and, with the addition of a new first line, was retitled "Trickle, Drops" in 1867. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: duk.00277 Title:  Drops of my Blood Date: about 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  On one side is a list of trial titles, probably for the poem first published as "Calamus 15" in 1860 and eventually titled "Trickle Drops." On the reverse is a fragment of about two and a half lines, heavily corrected, whose relationship to Whitman's published poetry is unknown. This scrap has been attached by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with "[And there, farther south]," "The Scout," and "[In a poem make the thought]." Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library

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True Conquerors Whitman Archive ID: unc.00006 Title:  True Conquerors Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  This is a manuscript draft of the poem, "True Conquerors," which was first published in the New York Herald on February 15, 1888. Repository: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Twenty Years Title:  "After Twenty Years" Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 18.5 x 15.5 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Written in ink at the top of a proof of "After Twenty Years," a twelve-line poem, with a printed signature, the title having "After" cancelled, six words: "From the English Magazine of Art." This poem was published under the title "Twenty Years" in 1888. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Twilight Song, A Whitman Archive ID: loc.00197 Title:  [A flash of love] Date: between 1889-1890 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12.5 x 19 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A two-line draft written on the back of an envelope from F. Gutekunst's Imperial Photograph Galleries, with a note by Whitman on front that reads "head and bust WW, taken 1889, fairly good." "[A flash of love]" would later appear in a revised form in "A Twilight Song," first published in 1890. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: uva.00002 Title:  [As I sit in twilight alone by the flicker] Date: around 1865 or 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 26 cm x 20 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Manuscript draft of the poem "As I Sit in Twilight" which Whitman eventually retitled "A Twilight Song" and published in Century, May 1890. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00268 Title:  [From wooded Maine] Date: 1889 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 11 x 18 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The verso letter is dated "Aug 14th /89," and asks Whitman to send the unidentified writer a copy of the "latest special edition" of Leaves of Grass. These trial verses became part of "A Twilight Song"—subtitled, "for unknown buried soldiers, North and South"—which was first published in theMay, 1890 Century and then included in the second annex "Good-Bye My Fancy" in the 1892 "deathbed" edition of Leaves. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00003 Title:  As I sit in twilight Date: around 1865 or 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 27 cm x 20 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Manuscript draft of the poem "As I Sit in Twilight" which Whitman eventually retitled "A Twilight Song" and published in Century, May 1890. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00147 Title:  As I Sit in Twilight, Late, or twilight song Date: around 1865 or 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 30 cm x 22 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Manuscript draft of the poem "As I Sit in Twilight" which Whitman eventually retitled "A Twilight Song" and published in Century, May 1890. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: hun.00020 Title:  A Twilight Song Date: ca. 1890 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a late draft of "A Twilight Song," a poem first published in 1890. Repository: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Title:  "A Twilight Song" Date: May, 1890 Content:  A Copy of the May, 1890 issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magainze containing Whitman's poem "A Twilight Song." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00318 Title:  A Twilight Song Date: about 1890 Physical Description: 3 leaves, 20.25 x 18.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  Content:  These proofs of "A Twilight Song," which was first published in 1890, show corrections and/or notes in Whitman's hand. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00108 Title:  The Buried Army Date: about 1885 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 18 x 16 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Trial lines, possibly for "A Twilight Song,"first published in 1890and subtitled "For unknown buried soldiers, North and South." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: uva.00004 Title:  Unknown Date: around 1865 or 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28.5 cm x 19.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Manuscript draft of a poem Whitman titled "Unknown" and which eventually became "A Twilight Song" which was published in Century, May 1890. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00005 Title:  Unknown Date: around 1865 or 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 27.5 cm x 21 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Manuscript draft of a poem Whitman titled "Unknown" and which eventually became "A Twilight Song" which was published in Century, May 1890. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Twilight Title:  "Twilight" Date: December, 1887 Content:  A copy of pages from the December, 1887 issue of Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, containing Whitman's poem "Twilight." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Twilight" Date: about 1887 Content:  A proof sheet of "Twilight," which was published first in 1887. At the bottom of the proof is a note in Traubel's hand: "June 14, 1888." No annotations in Whitman's hand are on the sheet. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00317 Title:  Twilight Date: June, 1889 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 11.5 x 17 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Written in ink, with one line in pencil, are notes on a proof of "Twilight," which is printed on a piece of tan birch bark. The notes, in Whitman's hand, read: "Walt Whitman, June 1889" "on birch bark," and "a curio, on birch bark, Walt Whitman." "Twilight" was first published in 1887. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Two Rivulets, including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India Whitman Archive ID: duk.00122 Title:  Preface Two Rivulets Date: about 1876 Physical Description: 6 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  Content:  Fragment, heavily revised, of the preface to "Two Rivulets," 1876. Several of the leaves are made of scraps pasted together, and on the reverse of the fourth leaf is a draft fragment of the opening lines of a poem first published in 1867 as "A Carol of Harvest, for 1867," which was ultimately titled "The Return of the Heroes." Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library

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Unexpress'd, The Title:  "Old Age Echoes" Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 68.5 x 16.5 cm Images: forthcoming Content:  Galley Proof of four poems under the general title "Old Age Echoes": "Sounds of the Winter," "The Unexpress'd," "Sail Out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!," and "After the Argument." This grouping was published in March, 1891 in Lippincott's Magazine. A note in Traubel's hand appears at the top of the page. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old Age Echoes" Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 25 x 16.75 cm Images: forthcoming Content:  Offprint from the March, 1891 issue of Lippincott's Magazine of four poems under the general title "Old Age Echoes": "Sounds of the Winter," "The Unexpress'd," "Sail Out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!," and "After the Argument." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old Age Echoes" Date: March, 1891 Content:  Copy of the March, 1891 issue of Lippincott's Magazine with four Whitman poems under the general title "Old Age Echoes": "Sounds of the Winter," "The Unexpress'd," "Sail Out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!," and "After the Argument." Also published in this issue are a full page portrait of Whitman, Whitman's "Some Personal and Old-Age Memoranda" (later published as "Some Personal and Old Age Jottings"), Traubel's "Walt Whitman: Poet and Philosopher and Man," and a review of Whitman's book, November Boughs. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Old Age Echoes" Date: about 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28.5 x 16.5 cm, 6 x 14 cm attached, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Proof sheet of "Old Age Echoes" with many corrections written in ink, red ink, and pencil. "Old Age Echoes" is a general heading for four poems: "Sounds of the Winter," "The Unexpress'd," "Sail Out for Good, Eidolon Yacht!," and "After the Argument." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: uva.00152 Title:  Old Age Echoes Date: 1891 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 52.5 cm x 21.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The general title, "Old Age Echoes," appears at the top of the page. Beneath that title are two poems with individual titles: "Sounds of the Winter" and "The Unexpress'd." Pasted to the leaf below the second poem is a woodcut engraving of Whitman along with his autograph. The untitled lines directly following the picture and autograph eventually become the poem titled "After the Argument." The three poems were first published together in Lippincott's Magazine, March 1891, under the general title "Old Age Echoes.". Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: loc.00319 Title:  The Unexpress'd Date: about 1889 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 22 x 17 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A heavily corrected draft of the poem "The Unexpress'd," which was published first in 1891, written on the verso of a cancelled letter from Marjorie Cook, dated September 25, 1889. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: yal.00012 Title:  The Unexpress'd Date: 1890 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a draft of "The Unexpress'd," which was published in Lippincott's Magazine in March 1891. A note on the manuscript in Whitman's hand indicates that the poem was sent for publication in 1890 to W. H. Alden but was rejected. Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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United States to Old World Critics, The Whitman Archive ID: unc.00007 Title:  The United States to Old World Critics Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  This is a manuscript draft of the poem, "The United States to Old World Critics," which was first published in the New York Herald on May 8, 1888. Repository: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Unnamed Lands Whitman Archive ID: duk.00006 Title:  [And I have discovered them by night and by] Date: between 1850 and 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  The draft lines on one side of the manuscript leaf contributed to the opening poem of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. In the poem's final version, "Song of Myself," these lines are found in section 48. It is not known whether the prose on the leaf's reverse is related to any of Whitman's published work; however, physical and thematic similarities with "[And I have discovered them by night and by]," above, and "[My tongue can never be content with harness]," below, make a connection with the 1860 poem "Unnamed Lands" likely. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: duk.00003 Title:  [And when once they went far enough to see] Date: between 1850 and 1860 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  On one side of these manuscript leaves are drafts of lines for the opening poem of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, ultimately titled "Song of Myself," sections six and seven. On the reverse are fragments of an unpublished prose piece that appears to represent an early draft of "Unnamed Lands," a poem published first in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. The material on the second leaf shares with that poem not only a close thematic similarity but also several of the same phrases. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: tex.00030 Title:  [become a shroud] | [off, dim and filmy in their outlines] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one side of this manuscript leaf are approximately seven lines, lightly revised, of the poem eventually titled "The Sleepers," first published in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. On the other side is a prose fragment, showing moderate revision, of approximately 150 words. Phrases and ideas from this manuscript were incorporated in the poem "Unnamed Lands," first published in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: The Walt Whitman Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Whitman Archive ID: duk.00008 Title:  [My tongue can never be content with harness] Date: between 1850 and 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one side of the manuscript leaf are draft poetic lines with an unknown relation to Whitman's published work. However, physical and thematic similarities with "[And when once they went far enough to see]" and "[And I have discovered them by night and by]," above, suggest that the lines were possibly drafted for the 1855 poem that eventually became "Song of Myself." These similarities also suggest that the prose on the leaf's reverse is likely related to "Unnamed Lands", first published in Leaves of Grass, 1860. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00222 Title:  Unnamed Lands Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 5 leaves, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  Content:  Originally numbered 81 and revised by overwriting to 82, with the note "?/(Leaf of)" above the number and title. Whitman numbered the leaves 1-5 in pencil in the lower left corners. The leaves correspond to various numbered sections of the 1860 published version. In the 1872 Leaves of Grass Whitman transferred the poem to a "Leaves of Grass" group, and in 1881 it was finally moved, after several revisions through the different published versions, to the cluster "Autumn Rivulets." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Untold Want, The Whitman Archive ID: loc.00298 Title:  Songs of Parting Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 18 leaves with handwritten annotations, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  Content:  Bound proofs of Whitman's cluster "Songs of Parting," containing 17 poems. Opposite a portrait of Whitman, the title page reads, "Songs of Parting, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof." These corrections were probably for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. The 17 poems included are: "As the Time Draws Nigh," "Ashes of Soldiers," "Years of the Modern," "Thoughts," "Song at Sunset," "My Legacy," "Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All," "Camps of Green," "Bathed in War's Perfume," "Now Finalé to the Shore," "As they Draw to a Close," "The Untold Want," "Portals," "These Carols," "To the Reader at Parting," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," and "So Long." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Veil with their lids, &c Whitman Archive ID: loc.00262 Title:  [Mask with their lids thine eyes] Date: about 1870 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  A draft of a poem never published in Whitman's lifetime, but published posthumously as "[Mask with Their Lids]." The draft was evidently part of a larger notebook titled "Penitenzia," but no other pages from such a notebook are present in this folder. The folder also contains two pages from Clifton Joseph Furness's book Walt Whitman's Workshop concerning the draft. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: usc.00001 Title:  Veil with their lids, &c Date: about 1870 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 23 x 14.1, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a manuscript of the poem, "Veil with their lids, &c," unpublished in Whitman's lifetime. The poem is apparently based on a photograph of Whitman possibly taken by the photographer, William Kurtz, in the 1860s. A note at the top of the manuscript, in Whitman's hand, reads, "p. 10 Passage to India," indicating that the poem might have been intended for inclusion in the volume of that name (Passage to India) published in 1870. The lines seem to anticipate the poem, "Out from Behind This Mask," first published in the New York Tribune on February 19, 1876. Repository: University of South Carolina, Joel Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-Century American Literature

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Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night Whitman Archive ID: loc.00149 Title:  [September & October 1863] Date: 1863 Physical Description: about 21 leaves, 10 x 7 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  Content:  A notebook bound by Whitman and tied with red ribbon. It contains addresses of many soldiers hospitalized at Armory Square Hospital in Washington. Short case histories follow most of the names. Also contains trial lines for the poem "Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night," first published in 1865. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Vocalism Whitman Archive ID: uva.00193 Title:  Orators Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 5 leaves, 22 x 13.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  Content:  The poem was originally numbered 67, and the partly erased pencil note "Needs to be/ re-written/ or excluded" appears in the upper-right corner of the first leaf. Whitman also numbered the leaves in pencil in their lower-left corners. The leaves correspond to verses in section 12 of "Chants Democratic" in the 1860 Leaves of Grass. After excising and altering numerous verses of the poem and numbering different verse paragraphs for the "Chants Democratic" version, Whitman next made the poem the second numbered section of the last "Leaves of Grass" cluster in the 1867 edition. From 1872 to 1876 it bore the title "To Oratists." Then, in 1881, Whitman deleted several lines, joining this poem with a previously unconnected poem known as "Voices" to form "Vocalism" in the cluster "Autumn Rivulets," a position and identity the now-composite poem retained from that point on. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00209 Title:  Voices Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  This poem became section 21 of the cluster "Leaves of Grass" in the 1860 edition. In 1867 Whitman placed it after what would eventually become "All is Truth" and "Germs" as section 3 of a "Leaves of Grass" group in the annex "Songs Before Parting." In 1872 Whitman restored the title "Voices." In 1881 he dropped the first two verses and added "Voices" (as verse paragraph 2) to the previously unrelated poem "To Oratists" to form "Vocalism" in the cluster "Autumn Rivulets". Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Voice from Death, A Whitman Archive ID: yal.00060 Title:  A Voice from Death Date: June 1889 Physical Description: 5 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  Content:  This is a signed manuscript of "A Voice from Death," a poem written in response to the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, flood in the spring of 1889 in which 2,000 people died after a dam collapsed following the torrential rains. This poem was published on June 7, 1889, in the New York World. The manuscript is the printer's copy and each page is mounted separately and bound in a volume with a lettered title page and a portrait frontispiece by E. Whittlesey Kotz. Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Voice of the Rain, The Title:  "The Voice of the Rain" Date: about 1885 Physical Description: 5 leaves, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Five proof sheets of the poem "The Voice of the Rain," which was published first in 1885. Two of the proofs have notations and corrections in Whitman's hand (one showing a rejected title, "The Rain Enigma"), and one has a notation on the verso. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Wallabout Martyrs, The Whitman Archive ID: uva.00171 Title:  The Wall about Martyrs Date: 1888 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 11.5 cm x 20.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  This manuscript contains a draft version of the poem "The Wallabout Martyrs" first published in the New York Herald, March 16, 1888. A note at the bottom states: "sent to Herald March 11" indicating the draft was likely completed around the time of publication. On the verso of the leaves appear scraps of a letter and an envelope addressed to Whitman in Camden. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Wandering at Morn Whitman Archive ID: loc.00019 Title:  The Singing Thrush Date: February 28, 1873 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12 x 19 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  A draft of "The Singing Thrush"(first published in 1873 and later published under the title "Wandering at Morn") written in pencil, with corrections and changes (some in ink) on a folded sheet of stationery. The draft is signed and dated Washington, February 28, 1873. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Warble for Lilac-Time Title:  "Warble for Lilac-Time" Date: May, 1870 Content:  A copy of the May, 1870 issue of The Galaxy, containing Whitman's poem "Warble for Lilac-Time." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00047 Title:  Warble for Lilac-Time Date: 1870-1881 Physical Description: 4 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  Content:  Fair copy draft of the poem "Warble for Lilac-Time," first published in the Galaxy 9 (May 1870). Whitman revised the poem for reprinting in Passage to India (1871), in the New York Daily Graphic (12 May 1873), in the group "Passage to India" of Leaves of Grass (1872) and Two Rivulets (1876), and in its present form in Leaves of Grass (1881-82). Repository: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library

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Washington's Monument, February, 1885 Whitman Archive ID: pml.00009 Title:  [Thou, Washington, art the worlds] Date: about 1885 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Early draft of the poem originally published as "Ah, Not This Granite Dead and Cold" in 1885 and later as "Washington's Monument, February, 1885." Written on both sides of a thin leaf of paper. Repository: The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York Whitman Archive ID: pml.00010 Title:  Ah, not that granite dead and cold! Date: about 1885 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Draft of the poem originally published as "Ah, Not This Granite Dead and Cold" in 1885 and published as "Washington's Monument, February, 1885." Repository: The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York Whitman Archive ID: pml.00001 Title:  Ah, not this granite dead and cold Date: about 1885 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Draft of the poem originally published in 1885 as "Ah, Not This Granite Dead and Cold" and later as "Washington's Monument, February, 1885." Repository: The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York Title:  "Ah, Not This Granite Dead and Cold" Date: about 1885 Physical Description: 3 leaves, 24.5 x 15 cm, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Proof with Whitman's holograph corrections. Published first under this title in 1885. Later published as "Washington's Monument, February, 1885." Folder also contains two copies of an uncorrected, final proof. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: pml.00005 Title:  Beyond this granite dead and cold Date: 1885 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Draft of the poem originally published in 1885 as "Ah, Not This Granite Dead and Cold" and later as "Washington's Monument, February, 1885." Written on a piece of paper with an envelope pasted at the bottom, postmarked February 18, 1885. Repository: The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

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We Two, How Long We were Fool'd Whitman Archive ID: uva.00181 Title:  You and I Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 3 leaves, all leaves 21 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  Content:  Originally numbered 84, this poem appeared in the 1860 Leaves of Grass as main section 7 of "Enfans d'Adam," and was retitled within the group "We Two—How Long We Were Fool'd" in 1867. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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What am I After All Whitman Archive ID: uva.00210 Title:  Leaf [What am I after all but a] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This poem became section 22 of the cluster "Leaves of Grass" in the 1860 edition. In 1867 Whitman dropped the second 1860 verse and made it section 4 of a "Leaves of Grass" group in the annex "Songs Before Parting". Whitman gave it the title "What Am I After All" in Passage to India (1871), and in 1881 it was finally transferred to the cluster "Autumn Rivulets." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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What Best I See in Thee Title:  "What Best I See in Thee" Date: about 1881 Content:  Proof of "What Best I See in Thee," first published in 1881, with no annotations on the sheet. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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What Place Is Besieged? Whitman Archive ID: uva.00320 Title:  Leaf [What place is besieged] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21.5 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one leaf of pink paper (21.5 x 13 cm), in black ink, with a fair copy of the poem at the bottom of the leaf and a deleted draft featuring heavy revisions in the same ink and in pencil at the top. This poem was originally numbered 68, and its title was "Leaflet—." In 1860 it became the second numbered verse paragraph of section 31 of "Calamus." In 1867 Whitman split up the two paragraphs and made them separate poems; these verses were moved to a position between the "Calamus" and a "Leaves of Grass" cluster and permanently retitled "What Place Is Besieged?" In 1881 the poem was transferred to the cluster "Inscriptions." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: loc.00323 Title:  Whispers of Heavenly Death Date: about 1870 Physical Description: 15 leaves, 20 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  Content:  Mostly mounted clippings of poems taken from Leaves of Grass, stitched and tied with ribbon by Walt Whitman. An autograph title page is followed by pages numbered in red pencil 469-484. One poem, "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," on p. 481 is written entirely in Walt Whitman's hand, and other corrections and additions are in Whitman's hand throughout. The poems included are: "Whispers of Heavenly Death," "Yet, Yet Ye Downcast Hours," "As Nearing Departure" (later published, in a different form, as "As the Time Draws Nigh"), "Darest Thou Now O Soul," "Of Him I Love Day and Night," "Quicksand Years That Whirl Me I Know Not Whither" (later published as "Quicksand Years"), "That Music Always Round Me," "As If a Phantom Caress'd Me," "O Living Always, Always Dying," "Here, Sailor!" (later published as "What Ship Puzzled at Sea"), "A Noiseless Patient Spider," "To One Shortly to Die," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," "This Day, O Soul," "What Place is Besieged?," "The Last Invocation," and "Pensive and Faltering." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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What Ship Puzzled at Sea Whitman Archive ID: loc.00323 Title:  Whispers of Heavenly Death Date: about 1870 Physical Description: 15 leaves, 20 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  Content:  Mostly mounted clippings of poems taken from Leaves of Grass, stitched and tied with ribbon by Walt Whitman. An autograph title page is followed by pages numbered in red pencil 469-484. One poem, "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," on p. 481 is written entirely in Walt Whitman's hand, and other corrections and additions are in Whitman's hand throughout. The poems included are: "Whispers of Heavenly Death," "Yet, Yet Ye Downcast Hours," "As Nearing Departure" (later published, in a different form, as "As the Time Draws Nigh"), "Darest Thou Now O Soul," "Of Him I Love Day and Night," "Quicksand Years That Whirl Me I Know Not Whither" (later published as "Quicksand Years"), "That Music Always Round Me," "As If a Phantom Caress'd Me," "O Living Always, Always Dying," "Here, Sailor!" (later published as "What Ship Puzzled at Sea"), "A Noiseless Patient Spider," "To One Shortly to Die," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," "This Day, O Soul," "What Place is Besieged?," "The Last Invocation," and "Pensive and Faltering." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand? Whitman Archive ID: uva.00338 Title:  [What think you I have] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 8.5 x 9 cm pasted to 6.5 x 9 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On a composite leaf of white wove paper consisting of two sections (8.5 x 9 and 6.5 x 9 cm) pasted together. Both sections are in black ink but, as Bowers notes, the lower verses were inscribed using a darker, thicker pen; the upper section is unrevised, but the lower section bears several alterations in the original ink. Pinholes at top of both sections and in the current center. Whitman numbered the page 9, in pencil, in the lower-left corner. Originally the sixth section of the sequence "Live Oak, with Moss," this poem was revised to form section 32 of "Calamus" in 1860, and in 1867 was retitled "What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?" Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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When I Heard at the Close of the Day Whitman Archive ID: uva.00339 Title:  [When I heard at the close of] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 15 x 9.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  On two leaves of white wove paper, both measuring 15 x 9.5 cm; the lower half of the second page is pasted over with a section of white paper (8 x 9 cm) containing four revised verses. In black ink, with revisions in the same ink and in pencil. Pinholes mostly at top of both pages. Whitman numbered the pages 4 and 5, in pencil, in their lower-left corners. The third section of "Live Oak, with Moss" (with ornamental Roman numeral), this poem became section 11 of "Calamus" in 1860 and was permanently retitled "When I Heard at the Close of the Day" in 1867. For an earlier draft of the poem numbered V please see the verso of leaves 15-16 of "Premonition" (1:1:15-16). Bowers (p. 88) supplies the three earlier lines concealed by the paste-on revision to the second leaf. The lines on the first page correspond to verses 1-5 of the 1860 version, and those on the second page ("And when I thought how/ my friend,...") to lines 6-13. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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When I Read the Book Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00082 Title:  The Biography Date: before 1867 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 18 by 11 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Heavily revised draft of the poem "When I Read the Book" that extends onto the verso. The poem was first published in the 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass with the title, "When I Read the Book." In brown leather volume of Whitmaniana. Repository: The Oscar Lion Collection of Walt Whitman, The New York Public Library

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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd Whitman Archive ID: loc.00110 Title:  [Hermit Thrush] Date: about 1865 Physical Description: 4 leaves, 10.5 x 6.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  Content:  Notes about the hermit thrush in a small homemade notebook, which are related to lines in his poem "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," first published in 1865-6. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00052 Title:  [sorrow] Date: about 1865 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  A list of about ninety words expressing sorrow. These words were evidently used as Whitman composed "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," first published in 1865. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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While Not the Past Forgetting Whitman Archive ID: unc.00008 Title:  While not the past forgetting Date: about 1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  This is a manuscript draft of the poem, "While Not the Past Forgetting." Whitman claimed that the poem was published on May 30, 1888, though no copy of such a version has yet been located. The poem was published in November Boughs in 1888. Repository: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Whispers of Heavenly Death (Cluster) Whitman Archive ID: uva.00307 Title:  As of Eternity Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  Content:  On two leaves of pink paper, both 21 x 13 cm, in black ink, with minor revisions in the same ink. Pinholes mostly in center and at top of both pages. This poem became section 21 of "Calamus" in 1860; the lines on the first manuscript page became verses 1-6, and those on the second ("I hear not the volumes of/ sound merely—...") became 7-9. Retitled "That Music Always Round Me" in 1867, it was transferred in 1871 to the "Whispers of Heavenly Death" cluster in Passage to India. In 1881 Whitman incorporated it, with the rest of the cluster, in the main body of Leaves. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00319 Title:  Leaf [O dying! Always dying!] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21.5 x 12 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On one light blue Williamsburgh tax blank (21.5 x 12 cm), in dark brown ink, with revisions in fine pen and pencil. Whitman penciled in a question mark, in parentheses, next to the title. With the addition of the new first line "O love!" this became section 27 of "Calamus" in 1860. In the 1867 Leaves it was retitled "O Living Always—Always Dying!" Whitman next transferred it to the "Passage to India" supplement bound in with Leaves, where it reappeared in 1876; in the 1881 Leaves Whitman permanently added it to the cluster "Whispers of Heavenly Death." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Whitman Archive ID: uva.00325 Title:  Poemet Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  On two pink leaves (21 x 13 cm), in black ink, with revisions in the same ink and in light ink. Pinholes in center, at top, and in top-left corner. This poem was originally titled "Leaf" and apparently numbered 78; Whitman inscribed its new title, "Poemet," in light ink. It became section 17 of "Calamus" in 1860, with the lines on the first leaf corresponding to verses 1-7 and those on the second ("And what I dreamed I will/ henceforth tell...") to verses 8-13 of the first published version. Retitled "Of Him I Love Day and Night" in 1867, it was transferred to the "Whispers of Heavenly Death" cluster in Passage to India in 1871. In 1881 Whitman incorporated it, with the rest of the cluster, in the main body of Leaves. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Whispers of Heavenly Death (Poem) Whitman Archive ID: loc.00323 Title:  Whispers of Heavenly Death Date: about 1870 Physical Description: 15 leaves, 20 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  Content:  Mostly mounted clippings of poems taken from Leaves of Grass, stitched and tied with ribbon by Walt Whitman. An autograph title page is followed by pages numbered in red pencil 469-484. One poem, "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," on p. 481 is written entirely in Walt Whitman's hand, and other corrections and additions are in Whitman's hand throughout. The poems included are: "Whispers of Heavenly Death," "Yet, Yet Ye Downcast Hours," "As Nearing Departure" (later published, in a different form, as "As the Time Draws Nigh"), "Darest Thou Now O Soul," "Of Him I Love Day and Night," "Quicksand Years That Whirl Me I Know Not Whither" (later published as "Quicksand Years"), "That Music Always Round Me," "As If a Phantom Caress'd Me," "O Living Always, Always Dying," "Here, Sailor!" (later published as "What Ship Puzzled at Sea"), "A Noiseless Patient Spider," "To One Shortly to Die," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," "This Day, O Soul," "What Place is Besieged?," "The Last Invocation," and "Pensive and Faltering." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Who is now reading this? Whitman Archive ID: uva.00317 Title:  43—Leaf Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21.5 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  The original title was "Leaflet." On the second page Whitman added, in a combination of normal and blue pencil, the number 43 (1/2). With the addition of a new first line ("1. Who is now reading this?") the poem became section 16 of "Calamus" in 1860; the lines on the first draft page correspond to verses 2-8 and those on the second page ("Or as if interior in me") to verses 9-10. This was the first and last appearance of the poem during Whitman's lifetime: he rejected it from his "Blue Book Copy" of Leaves of Grass in 1860. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Who Learns My Lesson Complete? Title:  "[med Cophósis]" Date: between 1850-1856 Physical Description: handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  A notebook kept by Whitman in the early to mid-1850s. William White, in his edition of Whitman's Daybooks and Notebooks (New York: New York University Press, 1978. 3 vols.), noted a relationship between this notebook and the poems "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?," "By Blue Ontario's Shore," "Song of the Answerer," and "There Was a Child Went Forth." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: duk.00264 Title:  [The Great Laws do not treasure chips] Date: about 1855 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript contains lines which, after revision, appeared in the eleventh poem in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, later titled "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?" On the verso are cancelled lines, beginning "hands are cut," which later appeared, in a revised form, in "Faces," which was originally published as the sixth poem of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library

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With All Thy Gifts Whitman Archive ID: loc.00324 Title:  With all the gifts America Date: about 1873 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Draft entitled "With all the gifts America," published in 1873 under the title "With All Thy Gifts." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "With All Thy Gifts" Date: about 1876 Content:  Proof of "With All Thy Gifts," first published in book form in 1876 (the proof has no printed signature, suggesting that it is for book publication). There are no annotations on the sheet. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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With Antecedents Title:  "[(illeg.) Dick Hunt]" Date: 1856-1857 Physical Description: handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  |  31  |  32  |  33  |  34  |  35  |  36  |  37  |  38  |  39  |  40  |  41  |  42  |  43  |  44  |  45  |  46  |  47  |  48  |  49  |  50  |  51  |  52  |  53  |  54  |  55  |  56  |  57  |  58  |  59  |  60  |  61  |  62  |  63  |  64  |  65  |  66  |  67  |  68  |  69  |  70  |  71  |  72  |  73  |  74  |  75  |  76  |  77  |  78  |  79  |  80  |  81  |  82  |  83  |  84  |  85  |  86  |  87  |  88  |  89  |  90  |  91  |  92  |  93  |  94  |  95  |  96  |  97  |  98  |  99  |  100  |  101  |  102  |  103  |  104  |  105  |  106  |  107  |  108  |  109  |  110  |  111  |  112  |  113  |  114  |  115  |  116  |  117  |  118  |  119  |  120  |  121  |  122  |  123  |  124  |  125  |  126  |  127  |  128  |  129  |  130  |  131  |  132  |  133  |  134  |  135  |  136  |  137  |  138  |  139  |  140  |  141  |  142  |  143  |  144  |  145  |  146  |  147  |  148  |  149  |  150  |  151  |  152  |  153  |  154  |  155  |  156  |  157  |  158  |  159  |  160  |  161  |  162  |  163  |  164  |  165  |  166  |  167  |  168  |  169  |  170  |  171  |  172  |  173  |  174  |  175  Content:  A notebook Whitman used for various purposes in the mid-1850s. Edward F. Grier, in his edition of Whitman's Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984. 6 vols.), noted that the notebook contains lines and phrases that relate to several poems: "Song of the Broad-Axe," "To a Common Prostitute," "You Felons on Trial in Courts," "Starting from Paumanok," "Trickle Drops," "I Was Looking for a Long While," "Poem of Joys," "Facing West from California's Shores," "To the States," "A Song of the Rolling Earth," "On the Beach a Night Alone," "Full of Life Now," and "With Antecedents." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: duk.00301 Title:  [a volume] Date: before 1860 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  Note suggesting a piece of writing to span "the whole range of recorded time," possibly related to "With Antecedents," which was first published in 1860 as "You and Me and To-day." This scrap has been attached by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with "[Remember in Scientific]." Repository: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Whitman Archive ID: uva.00187 Title:  Evolutions Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 6 leaves, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  Content:  On six leaves of pink paper. The deleted title is "Poemet—." "Evolutions.—" is written in light ink, and the number "41—" in a darker ink than the text. Whitman numbered each leaf in pencil in the upper right corner. This poem was first published in the January 14, 1860 issue of the New York Saturday Press under the title "You and Me and To-day," after which it became section 7 of "Chants Democratic" in the 1860 Leaves of Grass. In 1867 Whitman ungrouped it and permanently retitled it "With Antecedents"; in 1881 it was permanently transferred to the new cluster "Birds of Passage." The manuscript leaves correspond to the published verses in the 1860 Leaves of Grass. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea! Whitman Archive ID: loc.00009 Title:  [By day the distant] Date: October, 1883 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 17 x 15 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Lines that likely constitute an early draft of "With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!", a poem published first in Harper's Monthly, March, 1884 Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: yal.00014 Title:  By thine own lips, O Sea Date: about 1884 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This manuscript is a draft of the poem eventually published as "With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!" in the March 1884 edition of Harper's Monthly Magazine. This poem was reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to the 1888 edition of Leaves of Grass. Whitman wrote this draft on the verso of a sheet of stationary for the Sheldon House of Ocean Grove, New Jersey. Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Whitman Archive ID: loc.00012 Title:  By Thine Own Lips, O Sea Date: about 1884 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 26 x 20.5 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  An early draft of the poem published in Harper's Monthly, March, 1884, as "With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!" Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: yal.00002 Title:  with husky-haughty lips, O sea Date: 1884 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a draft of "With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!", first published in Harper's Monthly Magazine in March 1884, written on the verso of a discarded review of John Burrough's Notes on Walt Whitman. This poem was reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass in 1888. Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Whitman Archive ID: unc.00010 Title:  With husky-haughty lips, O sea Date: about 1884 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  Content:  This is a manuscript draft of the poem, "With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!," which was first published in Harper's Monthly in March 1884. Repository: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Whitman Archive ID: yal.00001 Title:  with husky-haughty lips, O Sea! Date: 1884 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a signed and revised draft of "With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!," which was published first in Harper's Monthly Magazine in March 1884. This poem was reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass in 1888. Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Title:  "With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!" Date: 1884 Physical Description: handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Pages from the March, 1884 issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine containing Whitman's poem "With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!" Also included is a clipping from an unknown newspaper ("'84" written in Whitman's hand at the bottom) of the same poem. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: yal.00034 Title:  With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea! Date: 1884 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a printed draft of the poem, "With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!," with corrections in Whitman's hand. The poem was published first in Harper's Monthly Magazine in March 1884, and was reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass in 1888. Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Whitman Archive ID: yal.00036 Title:  With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea! Date: 1884 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a printed draft of the poem, "With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!," with corrections in Whitman's hand. The poem was published first in Harper's Monthly Magazine in March 1884, and was reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass in 1888. Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Woman Waits for Me, A Title:  "[George Walker]" Date: between 1855-1856 Physical Description: handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  A notebook Whitman used for various purposes in the mid-1850s. Edward F. Grier, in his edition of Whitman's Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984. 6 vols), noted that the notebook contains lines and phrases that relate to several poems: "Song of the Broad-Axe," "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Starting from Paumanok," "A Song for Occupations," "By Blue Ontario's Shore," "Salut au Monde!," "To One Shortly to Die," and "A Woman Waits for Me." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: loc.00035 Title:  [I do not relegate you] Date: between 1850-1860 Physical Description: 5 leaves, 26.5 x 15 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On these pages are some lines that would later emerge in "Poem of Procreation" in 1856 (later known as "A Woman Waits for Me"). Portions appear to be trial lines for a poem entitled "Pictures" published posthumously, first in 1925. Other lines have an unknown relationship to Whitman's published work. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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World Below the Brine, The Whitman Archive ID: uva.00204 Title:  Leaf [Sea-water, and all breathing] Date: 1857-1859 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 22 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  Content:  The poem was originally numbered 71 and then modified to 72. These 2 leaves contain verses first published in section 16 of the 1860 Leaves of Grass cluster. In 1867 Whitman transferred this poem to a different "Leaves of Grass" group with the poems that would become "Night on the Prairies" and "I Sit and Look Out." After receiving the title "The World Below the Brine" in the 1871 "Sea-Shore Memories" group of Passage to India, the final change was its transfer to the cluster "Sea Drift" within the main body of Leaves of Grass in 1881. Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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World Take Good Notice Whitman Archive ID: yal.00011 Title:  Rise, Lurid Stars Date: about 1865 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  This is a poem draft, the last three lines of which were later revised and published as "World Take Good Notice" in 1865. On the verso of this draft is a prose fragment discussing slavery and Southern aristocracy. Repository: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Whitman Archive ID: uva.00009 Title:  [My two theses] Date: about 1856 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 4 x 16 cm pasted to 10.5 x 16 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  On a small composite leaf of white wove paper, ruled in blue on one side, containing notes about developing two theses to "run through all the poems . . .." Repository: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

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Years of the Modern Whitman Archive ID: loc.00298 Title:  Songs of Parting Date: about 1881 Physical Description: 18 leaves with handwritten annotations, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  Content:  Bound proofs of Whitman's cluster "Songs of Parting," containing 17 poems. Opposite a portrait of Whitman, the title page reads, "Songs of Parting, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof." These corrections were probably for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. The 17 poems included are: "As the Time Draws Nigh," "Ashes of Soldiers," "Years of the Modern," "Thoughts," "Song at Sunset," "My Legacy," "Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All," "Camps of Green," "Bathed in War's Perfume," "Now Finalé to the Shore," "As they Draw to a Close," "The Untold Want," "Portals," "These Carols," "To the Reader at Parting," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," and "So Long." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours Whitman Archive ID: loc.00323 Title:  Whispers of Heavenly Death Date: about 1870 Physical Description: 15 leaves, 20 x 13 cm, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  Content:  Mostly mounted clippings of poems taken from Leaves of Grass, stitched and tied with ribbon by Walt Whitman. An autograph title page is followed by pages numbered in red pencil 469-484. One poem, "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," on p. 481 is written entirely in Walt Whitman's hand, and other corrections and additions are in Whitman's hand throughout. The poems included are: "Whispers of Heavenly Death," "Yet, Yet Ye Downcast Hours," "As Nearing Departure" (later published, in a different form, as "As the Time Draws Nigh"), "Darest Thou Now O Soul," "Of Him I Love Day and Night," "Quicksand Years That Whirl Me I Know Not Whither" (later published as "Quicksand Years"), "That Music Always Round Me," "As If a Phantom Caress'd Me," "O Living Always, Always Dying," "Here, Sailor!" (later published as "What Ship Puzzled at Sea"), "A Noiseless Patient Spider," "To One Shortly to Die," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," "This Day, O Soul," "What Place is Besieged?," "The Last Invocation," and "Pensive and Faltering." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

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Yonnondio Title:  "Yonnondio" Date: November 26, 1887 Content:  The November 26, 1887 issue of The Critic containing Whitman's poem, "Yonnondio." Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Title:  "Yonnondio" Date: about 1887 Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten Images: forthcoming Content:  Two proofs of "Yonnondio," which was published first in 1887. On one proof is a notation by Horace Traubel ("Received from Walt Whitman June 12, 1888") and on the other are notes and corrections in Whitman's hand. Repository: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00049 Title:  Yonnondio Date: 1887-1888 Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  Content:  Heavily revised draft of the poem "Yonnondio," which first appeared in the Critic 11 (26 November 1887). It was reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888). Repository: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library

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You Felons on Trial in Courts Title:  "[(illeg.) Dick Hunt]" Date: 1856-1857 Physical Description: handwritten View Images:  1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  |  31  |  32  |  33  |  34  |  35  |  36  |  37  |  38  |  39  |  40  |  41  |  42  |  43  |  44  |  45  |  46  |  47  |  48  |  49  |  50  |  51  |  52  |  53  |  54  |  55  |  56  |  57  |  58  |  59  |  60  |  61  |  62  |  63  |  64  |  65  |  66  |  67  |  68  |  69  |  70  |  71  |  72  |  73  |  74  |  75  |  76  |  77  |  78  |  79  |  80  |  81  |  82  |  83  |  84  |  85  |  86  |  87  |  88  |  89  |  90  |  91  |  92  |  93  |  94  |  95  |  96  |  97  |  98  |  99  |  100  |  101  |  102  |  103  |  104  |  105  |  106  |  107  |  108  |  109  |  110  |  111  |  112  |  113  |  114  |  115  |  116  |  117  |  118  |  119  |  120  |  121  |  122  |  123  |  124  |  125  |  126  |  127  |  128  |  129  |  130  |  131  |  132  |  133  |  134  |  135  |  136  |  137  |  138  |  139  |  140  |  141  |  142  |  143  |  144  |  145  |  146  |  147  |  148  |