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and nobody else am the

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  • Title: and nobody else am the
  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: uva.00280
  • Source: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia. Transcribed from digital images of the original. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: Whitman probably drafted this manuscript in the early 1850s as he was composing the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass. The lines were used in the first poem in that edition, eventually titled "Song of Myself."
  • Related Item(s):
    • More draft lines of poetry are written on the back of this leaf. See uva.00560.
    • See wwa.00057.
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "and nobody else am the." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 08 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: uva.00280.xml (TEI)

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Textual Feature Appearance
Overwritten brown with strikethrough
Added inline purple with double underline
Uncertain gray with wavy underline
Supplied from another source turquoise with brackets
Metamark green with triple underline
Long deletion gray background with top and bottom border
  [begin leaf 1 recto] [cut away] am myself ^and nobody else, am the greatest traitor, I went myself myself first to the headland,—my  
  own hands carried me there. The headland itself seems to [illegible]   [begin leaf 1 verso]
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