Content:
This one-page prose draft regarding the birthplace of Elias Hicks was
likely one of the manuscripts from which Whitman fashioned his 1888 essay "Notes (such as they
are) founded on Elias Hicks," first published in
November Boughs
and later reprinted in
Complete Prose Works
(1892). The reference to Elias Hicks's daughter Martha Hicks
Aldrich as "still living" suggests that Whitman began writing this
manuscript before 1862, the year of Martha's death. The reference, in
the revision of this passage, to her death "a year or two ago," "about
1863," would seem to indicate that at least that portion of the
manuscript was written around 1865. Whitman planned to write an essay
about Elias Hicks for many years. While finishing preparations for the
printing of
November Boughs,
Whitman told
Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were written as many as thirty years
ago. Some of them I have written within the past year. They are a
miscellaneous lot but they all belong in the same stream." (See Traubel,
With Walt Whitman in Camden,
2: 42.) The present manuscript is stored together with many other
manuscripts on the topics of Elias Hicks and Quakerism. Those that
directly contributed to the published essay are described separately.
Those whose relationship to the published essay are unclear are not
included at this stage of our work.
Content:
Two manuscript leaves pasted to a backing scrap to create a continuous
inscribed surface. The notes here about Elias Hicks's early life
probably contributed to Whitman's 1888 essay "Notes (such as they are) founded on Elias
Hicks," first published in
November
Boughs
and later reprinted in
Complete Prose Works
(1892).
Whitman planned to write an essay about Elias Hicks for many years.
While finishing preparations for the printing of
November Boughs,
Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of
these bits were written as many as thirty years ago. Some of them I have
written within the past year. They are a miscellaneous lot but they all
belong in the same stream." (See Traubel,
With
Walt Whitman in Camden,
2: 42.) The present
manuscript is stored together with many other manuscripts on the topics
of Elias Hicks and Quakerism. Those that directly contributed to the
published essay are described separately. Those whose relationship to
the published essay are unclear are not included at this stage of our
work.
Content:
On one side of the manuscript leaf are notes about demonyms for the
people of various places in North America. Whitman made use of this list
in his essay "Slang in America," which
was first published in the November 1885 issue of
The North American Review
and later
collected in
November Boughs
(1888) and
Complete Prose
Works
(1892). The other side, which has been
cancelled, contains a partial draft of an article written in response to
an unidentified author who had apparently found fault with American
politics and newspaper literature. It is unknown whether the writing on
this side led to publication. No images of this item are currently
available.
Content:
A rough draft fragment of Whitman's essay on Elias Hicks, first published in
November Boughs
(1888) as "Notes (such as they are) founded on Elias Hicks." An image of the verso is currently unavailale.
Whitman Archive Title: The mob, the trial of Warren Hastings
Content:
A manuscript with heavily-edited draft lines from Whitman's essay "Notes (such as they are) founded on Elias Hicks," which first appeared in
November Boughs
in 1888. The essay was also included in
Complete Prose Works
in 1892. Hicks (1748-1830) was a Quaker preacher and abolitionist who Whitman greatly admired.
Content:
The spirit of this note made it into the "Lingering Note" at the end of Whitman's essay "Elias Hicks, Notes (such as they are)"
in
November Boughs
(1888).
Apparently, Whitman intended to write a longer essay which did not
allude to Hicks. Grier dates this scrap from the 1870s because of the
steadiness of the handwriting (
Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts
[New York: New York University Press], 6, 2101).
Content:
This manuscript contains a passage that would appear within the essay"Notes (Such as They Are) Founded on Elias Hicks"in
November Boughs
in 1888.
Content:
This manuscript contains a passage that would appear in "Notes (Such as They Are) Founded on Elias Hicks"in
November Boughs
in 1888, which was a prefatory note for the essay "Elias Hicks."
Content:
This manuscript contains a biographical note about the religious leader and
abolitionist Elias Hicks (1748-1830). Parts of this note would be published in
"Notes (Such as They Are) Founded
on Elias Hicks" in
November
Boughs
in 1888 and was later retained in the
Complete Prose Works
, published in
1892.
Content:
Notes on the life dates of various famous figures. Whitman used this
information for "Notes (such as they are)
founded on Elias Hicks," an essay that was first published in
November Boughs
(1888) and later reprinted in
Complete
Prose Works
(1892). The fragmentary names at
the top of the list are those of Thomas Jefferson and Johann Heinrich
Pestalozzi. Whitman planned to write an essay about Elias Hicks for many
years. While finishing preparations for the printing of
November Boughs,
Whitman told Horace
Traubel, "Some of these bits were written as many as thirty years ago.
Some of them I have written within the past year. They are a
miscellaneous lot but they all belong in the same stream." (See Traubel,
With Walt Whitman in Camden,
2: 42.) The present manuscript is stored together with many other
manuscripts on the topics of Elias Hicks and Quakerism. Those that
directly contributed to the published essay are described separately.
Those whose relationship to the published essay are unclear are not
included at this stage of our work.
Whitman Archive Title: consent of all the other sects
Content:
One page of a late draft, probably the printer's copy, of the essay
"Notes (such as they are) founded on
Elias Hicks," which was first published in
November Bough
s (1888) and later
reprinted in
Complete Prose Works
(1892). Whitman planned to write an essay about Elias Hicks
for many years. While finishing preparations for the printing of
November Boughs,
Whitman told Horace
Traubel, "Some of these bits were written as many as thirty years ago.
Some of them I have written within the past year. They are a
miscellaneous lot but they all belong in the same stream." (See Traubel,
With Walt Whitman in Camden,
2: 42.) The present manuscript is stored together with many other
manuscripts on the topics of Elias Hicks and Quakerism. Those that
directly contributed to the published essay are described separately.
Those whose relationship to the published essay are unclear are not
included at this stage of our work.
Content:
The writing on this small scrap, regarding the so-called "Hicksite
Separation" within the Religious Society of Friends, forms part of a
note, headed "Note.—The Separation,"
included in the essay "Notes (such as they
are) founded on Elias Hicks." This essay was first published
in
November Boughs
(1888) and later reprinted in
Complete
Prose Works
(1892). Whitman planned to write
an essay about Elias Hicks for many years. While finishing preparations
for the printing of
November Boughs,
Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were written as many as
thirty years ago. Some of them I have written within the past year. They
are a miscellaneous lot but they all belong in the same stream." (See
Traubel,
With Walt Whitman in Camden,
2: 42.) The present manuscript is stored together with many
other manuscripts on the topics of Elias Hicks and Quakerism. Those that
directly contributed to the published essay are described separately.
Those whose relationship to the published essay are unclear are not
included at this stage of our work.
Whitman Archive Title: The Hicksite separation appears
Content:
The information on this small scrap was used for a note, headed "Note.—The Separation," included in the
essay "Notes (such as they are) founded on
Elias Hicks." This essay was first published in
November Boughs
(1888) and later
reprinted in
Complete Prose Works
(1892). Whitman planned to write an essay about Elias Hicks
for many years. While finishing preparations for the printing of
November Boughs,
Whitman told Horace
Traubel, "Some of these bits were written as many as thirty years ago.
Some of them I have written within the past year. They are a
miscellaneous lot but they all belong in the same stream." (See Traubel,
With Walt Whitman in Camden,
2: 42.) The present manuscript is stored together with many other
manuscripts on the topics of Elias Hicks and Quakerism. Those that
directly contributed to the published essay are described separately.
Those whose relationship to the published essay are unclear are not
included at this stage of our work.
Whitman Archive Title: Instructive, recurring back
Content:
This manuscript about the life of George Fox, written in ink with some
corrections in pencil, appears to be a draft introduction for the
section headed "George Fox (and
Shakspere)" in the essay "Notes
(such as they are) founded on Elias Hicks." This essay was
first published in
November Boughs
(1888) and later reprinted in
Complete
Prose Works
(1892). Whitman abandoned the
approach to his topic that is suggested in the first paragraph of the
manuscript, but the paragraph indicated by the pointing hand, at the
bottom of the manuscript, contains the kernel of a key paragraph in the
published version. Whitman planned to write an essay about Elias Hicks
for many years. While finishing preparations for the printing of
November Boughs,
Whitman told Horace
Traubel, "Some of these bits were written as many as thirty years ago.
Some of them I have written within the past year. They are a
miscellaneous lot but they all belong in the same stream." (See Traubel,
With Walt Whitman in Camden,
2: 42.) The present manuscript is stored together with many other
manuscripts on the topics of Elias Hicks and Quakerism. Those that
directly contributed to the published essay are described separately.
Those whose relationship to the published essay are unclear are not
included at this stage of our work.
Content:
These notes are based on Whitman's reading of the third volume of George
L. Craik and Charles Macfarlane's
The Pictorial
History of England
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848).
He incorporated some of this information into his essay "Notes (such as they are) founded on Elias
Hicks," which was first published in
November Boughs
(1888) and later
reprinted in
Complete Prose Works
(1892). Whitman planned to write an essay about Elias Hicks
for many years. While finishing preparations for the printing of
November Boughs,
Whitman told Horace
Traubel, "Some of these bits were written as many as thirty years ago.
Some of them I have written within the past year. They are a
miscellaneous lot but they all belong in the same stream." (See Traubel,
With Walt Whitman in Camden,
2: 42.) The present manuscript is stored together with many other
manuscripts on the topics of Elias Hicks and Quakerism. Those that
directly contributed to the published essay are described separately.
Those whose relationship to the published essay are unclear are not
included at this stage of our work.
Content:
A one-page draft fragment, heavily revised, related to the "George Fox (and Shakspere)" section of
Whitman's 1888 essay "Notes
(such as they are) founded on Elias Hicks," first published
in
November Boughs
and later reprinted in
Complete Prose Works
(1892). Whitman planned to write an essay about Elias Hicks
for many years. While finishing preparations for the printing of
November Boughs,
Whitman told Horace
Traubel, "Some of these bits were written as many as thirty years ago.
Some of them I have written within the past year. They are a
miscellaneous lot but they all belong in the same stream." (See Traubel,
With Walt Whitman in Camden,
2: 42.) The present manuscript is stored together with many other
manuscripts on the topics of Elias Hicks and Quakerism. Those that
directly contributed to the published essay are described separately.
Those whose relationship to the published essay are unclear are not
included at this stage of our work.
Whitman Archive Title: [Often too in real size and value]
Content:
A heavily revised and struck through prose draft fragment, portions of which appeared in the last paragraph of "Notes (such as they are) founded on Elias Hicks,"
November Boughs
(1888) before being collected under the same title in
Complete Prose
(1892).
Whitman Archive Title: The Conscience - the moral one,
Content:
This manuscript fragment regarding the importance of the spiritual aspect
of human consciousness is probably part of a draft of "A Lingering Note" in "Notes (such as they are) founded on Elias
Hicks." The essay was first published in
November Boughs
(1888). The leaf has been pasted to a backing sheet, rendering the verso inaccessible.
Content:
This short note refers to a passage in the third edition of Edward
FitzGerald's
The Rubáiyát of Omar
Khayyám, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia,
published in
1872. Whitman quotes stanza 66 of FitzGerald's work in his
essay "Notes (such as they are) founded on
Elias Hicks," which was first published in
November Boughs
(1888) and later
reprinted in
Complete Prose Works
(1892). He had apparently intended to include, as a footnote
to his quotation, the next three stanzas of the Rubáiyát, but
these do not appear in the article as it was printed.
Content:
This manuscript fragment seems to have functioned partly as reading notes
and partly as draft material for the "George Fox (and Shakspere)" section of
"Notes (such as they are) founded on
Elias Hicks." The essay was first published in November
Boughs (1888) and later reprinted in
Complete Prose Works
(1892).
Whitman Archive Title: [or even scientific values, having]
Content:
This manuscript fragment is a partial draft of "George Fox (and Shakspere.)", the final
section of "Notes (such as they are) founded
on Elias Hicks," an essay first published in November Boughs
(1888) and later reprinted in
Complete Prose Works
(1892).
Content:
Heavily corrected draft of a phrase that appears at the end of the "Prefatory Note" section of "Notes (such as they are) founded on Elias
Hicks," an essay first published in
November Boughs
(1888) and later
reprinted in
Complete Prose Works
(1891–1892). The draft is written on what was
apparently a book wrapper. The printed text on the inside of the wrapper
is from the
Seventh Annual Report of the Dante
Society,
which was dated May 15,
1888.
Whitman Archive Title: [The following are but casual fragments]
Content:
A small scrap on which is written a heavily revised sentence of the
"Prefatory Note" in "Notes (such as they are) founded on Elias
Hicks," an essay first published in
November Boughs
(1888) and later
reprinted in
Complete Prose Works
(1891–1892).
Whitman Archive Title: [—while so many kings, generals, philosophers, poets]
Content:
This manuscript fragment, written as a series of phrases interspersed
with names and dates, is an early draft toward the introductory
paragraph of "Notes (such as they are)
founded on Elias Hicks," an essay that was first published in
November Boughs (1888) and later reprinted in
Complete Prose Works
(1892).
Whitman Archive Title: [While the great composers Beethoven]
Content:
This manuscript fragment is an early draft of material Whitman used in
the introductory paragraph of "Notes (such as
they are) founded on Elias Hicks," an essay that was first
published in November Boughs (1888) and later
reprinted in
Complete Prose Works
(1892). See also tex.00204, a closely related manuscript. The leaf has been pasted to a backing sheet, rendering the verso inaccessible.
Content:
Brief notes on the reigns of Frederick the Great and King George III,
labelled for use in "Notes (such as they are)
founded on Elias Hicks," an essay that was first published in
November Boughs (1888) and later reprinted in
Complete Prose Works
(1892).
