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Who wills with his own

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  • Title: Who wills with his own
  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: uva.00283
  • 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: This manuscript is distantly similar in topic and wording to language in the preface to the 1855 Leaves of Grass, suggesting the manuscript may have been written in the early to mid-1850s. In his transcription, Richard Maurice Bucke combines it with three other manuscripts: see nyp.00095, nyp.00097, and uva.00134 (Notes and Fragments [London, Ontario: A. Talbot & Co., printers, 1899], 28–29). Though the subject matter is similar, the manuscripts do not appear to be continuous.
  • Notes written on manuscript: On leaf 1 recto, in unknown hand: "30"
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Who wills with his own." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 08 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: uva.00283.xml (TEI)

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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] Who wills with his own brain, 
  the good sweet of the float of the earth 
  descends and surrounds him, 30 If he you be a laborer or apprentice or 
  solitary farmer, it is the same.   [begin leaf 1 verso]
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