The following manuscripts, unless otherwise noted, are housed in the University of Virginia's Valentine-Barrett collection. All images are used with permission.
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34- As of Eternity [two leaves]
 
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52- Buds
 
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City of my walks and joys
 
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Confession-Drops
 
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Earth! Though you look so impassive
 
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Here the frailest leaves of me
 
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Hours continuing long, sore and heavy-hearted [three leaves]
 
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Hush'd be the camps today. April 19th 1865[Rutgers University]
 
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I dreamed in a dream of a city
 
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I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing [two leaves]
 
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In the garden, the world, I, Adam, again wander
 
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71- Leaf / A promise to Indiana
 
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44- Leaf / O dying! Always dying!
 
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43- Leaf / May-Be one will read this [two leaves]
 
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69- Leaf / What place is besieged
 
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A leaf for hand-in-hand!
 
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Long I thought that knowledge alone would suffice me [three leaves]
 
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Not the heat flames up and consumes
 
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O you whom I often and silently come where you are
 
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O your path stretch path far[Huntington Public Library]
 
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Of the doubts, the uncertainties after all [two leaves]
 
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79- Poemet [two leaves]
 
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54- Prairie-Grass
 
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84- Razzia
 
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Scented herbage of my breast [six leaves]
 
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Sometimes, with one I love I fill myself with rage
 
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That shadow, my likeness
 
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These I, singing in spring, collect for lovers,
 
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This moment as I sit alone
 
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To a new personal admirer [two leaves]
 
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95- To A Stranger [two leaves]
 
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?101- To one a century hence, or any number of centuries hence
 
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?100 To One Who Will Understand
 
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To the young man, many things to absorb
 
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Was it I who walked the earth disclaiming all except what I had in myself? [two leaves]
 
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Waves in the Vessel's Wake [Mills College Library]
 
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What think you I have taken my pen to record?
 
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When I heard at the close of the day [two leaves]
 
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You bards of ages hence! [three leaves] 
 
 
 
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