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[In the main I]

  • Date: about 1891
Text:

1891prose1 leafhandwritten; Draft fragment of American National Literature, first published in Good-Bye My

Old Chants

  • Date: ca. 1891
Text:

Old Chants first appeared in Truth (19 March 1891), and was reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).

Queries To My Seventieth Year

  • Date: 1888
Text:

hun.00011xxx.00320HM 11207Queries To My Seventieth YearTo my seventieth year1888poetry1 leafhandwritten

; Heavily revised draft, signed, of Queries to My Seventieth Year, a poem first published in the May

Queries To My Seventieth Year

Drift Sands.

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads was drawn from three previously published pieces (A Backward Glance on My

Own Road [1884], How I Made a Book [1886], and My Book and I [1887]).

Drift Sands

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads was drawn from three previously published pieces (A Backward Glance on My

Own Road [1884], How I Made a Book [1886], and My Book and I [1887]).

Notes and Flanges.—No. 1.

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads was drawn from three previously published pieces (A Backward Glance on My

Own Road [1884], How I Made a Book [1886], and My Book and I [1887]).

[Ripple and echoes from the]

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

Travel'd Roads was mostly made up of material from three previously published pieces: A Backward Glance on My

Own Road (1884), How I Made a Book (1886), and My Book and I (1887).

Drift Sands

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

Travel'd Roads was mostly made up of material from three previously published pieces: A Backward Glance on My

Own Road (1884), How I Made a Book (1886), and My Book and I (1887).

[To the liquid]

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads was drawn from three previously published pieces (A Backward Glance on My

Own Road [1884], How I Made a Book [1886], and My Book and I [1887]).

To the year 1889

  • Date: late 1888 or very early in 1889
Text:

Retitled To the Pending Year, the poem appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy in 1891. To the year 1889

Whitman, Walt, poet, was born May 31

  • Date: 1888
Text:

Portions of this manuscript appeared in Some Personal and Old-Age Jottings, first published in Good-Bye My

wooding at night

  • Date: Between 1848 and 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—"Step-along, my bullies!" Come, bullies, hop, now! hop now!" (9 Mixture of passengers .

1848 New Orleans

  • Date: Between 1848 and 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

My situation is rather a pleasant one.

There are many peculiarities in New Orleans that I shall jot down at my leisure in these pages.

My health was most capital; I frequently thought indeed that I felt better than ever before in my life

After changing my boarding house, Jef. and I were, take it altogether, pretty comfortable.

My own pride was touched—and I met their conduct with equal haughtiness on my part.

O Captain! my Captain!

  • Date: March 9, 1887
Text:

brn.00001xxx.00218Whitman, Walt to Hay, JohnO Captain! my Captain!

March 9, 1887poetry1 leafhandwritten; A signed, dated, handwritten copy of "O Captain! My Captain!

O Captain! my Captain!

O Captain! my Captain!

  • Date: March 9, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

O Captain! my Captain! O Captain! my Captain!

my Captain!

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse

My Captain!," which was published first in 1865.

O Captain! my Captain!

Annotations Text:

This manuscript is a signed, dated, handwritten copy of "O Captain! My Captain!

of the verso of this manuscript is currently unavailable.; A signed, dated, handwritten copy of "O Captain

My Captain!," which was published first in 1865.; Transcribed from digital images of the original.

Shakspere's Cipher

  • Date: 1887–1891
Text:

Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher, which was published first in The Cosmopolitan (October 1887) and reprinted in Good-Bye My

Shakspere—Bacon's Cipher

  • Date: 1887–1891
Text:

Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher, which was published first in The Cosmopolitan (October 1887) and reprinted in Good-Bye My

[One main]

  • Date: about 1887
Text:

leafhandwrittenprinted; Clipping, with handwritten revisions, of a passage from A Backward Glance on My

This passage was incorporated into My Book and I, which was first published in the January 1887 issue

It is unclear whether this manuscript was created in the processes that produced My Book and I or if

[Time always without break]

  • Date: 1887
Text:

which it underwent various changes in content, title, and position until being joined with Now List to My

My Book and I

  • Date: 1886 or 1887
Text:

and I1886 or 1887prose22 leaveshandwritten; A late-stage draft, with printer's notes, of the essay My

My Book and I

Good-Bye My Fancy

  • Date: about 1891
Text:

OV 2Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), Manuscript draftloc.05454xxx.00459Good-Bye My Fancyabout 1891poetryhandwrittentypedprinted78

78 pages of text numbered by Whitman, and is housed along with other materials related to Good-Bye My

, Lingering Last Drops, Good-bye My Fancy, On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!

s Purport (which includes three poems originally composed separately, My task, Death dogs my steps, and

Good-Bye My Fancy

Good-Bye My Fancy

  • Date: about 1891
Text:

OV 2Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), Manuscript draftloc.05452xxx.00459Good-Bye My Fancyabout 1891poetryprosehandwrittenprintedabout

10 leaves; Manuscript and corrected print material that was included in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).

Good-Bye My Fancy

My Task

  • Date: about 1891
Text:

1891poetryhandwritten1 leaf28 x 22 cm; 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.

My Task

Old-Age Recitatives

  • Date: about 1891
Text:

s Purport (only two lines of the twelve-line poem of the same title first published in 1891), My task

Proudly the flood comes in

  • Date: About 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

jibs appear in the offing—steamers with pennants of smoke— and under the noonday forenoon sun Where my

Where my gaze as now sweeps ocean river and bay.

Had I the Choice

  • Date: About 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the undulation of your one wave, its trick to me transfer W C ould you but breathe one breath upon my

[Which leads me to another point]

  • Date: about 1891
Text:

This manuscript contributed to American's Bulk Average, which first appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891

Interpolation Sounds

  • Date: ca. 1888
Text:

It was publised with the revised title in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891). Interpolation Sounds

A Twilight Song

  • Date: about 1890
Text:

It was reprinted, without the subtitle, in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) and in the Good-By my Fancy annex

[He Went Out With the Tide]

  • Date: 1885-1891
Text:

passage used in a note (entitled "Another Note") to the poem An Ended Day published in 1891 in Good-Bye My

This Journey

  • Date: about 1891
Text:

leaf; A draft entitled This Journey (the manuscript suggests Whitman was also considering the title My

An Old Man's Recitatives

  • Date: about 1890
Text:

reciting (published as Old Chants in 1891), Grand is the seen (first published in 1891), Death dogs my

[But outset and sure]

  • Date: about 1891
Text:

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

How I made a book

  • Date: 1885-1886
Text:

manuscript also contains two clippings (with handwritten revisions) of the essay A Backward Glance on My

How I Made a Book, A Backward Glance on my Own Road and My Book and I (which was published in Lippincott's

For Queen Victoria's Birthday

  • Date: about 1890
Text:

Whitman later included this poem in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891). For Queen Victoria's Birthday

By day the distant

  • Date: October 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

smoke Some vast soul, like a planet's, bound, arrested, tied, Watching the distant, shadowy sails, the My

With husky‑haughty lips, O Sea!

  • Date: Late 1883 or early 1884
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Where day and night I wend thy surf‑beat shore, Imaging to my sense thy varied strange suggestions, Thy

By thine own lips, O Sea

  • Date: 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Counting the tally of the surf‑suggestions wordless utterance of these liquid tongues And To pass within my

utterance tale of subterranean toil and wrongs Unf For once Seems here C c onfided to me * To pass within my

[Many consider the expressions]

  • Date: 1884–1888
Text:

appeared uncorrected in the 5 January 1884 issue of the Critic with the title, A Backward Glance on My

combined with two other pieces of journalism (How I Made a Book, Philadelphia Press, 11 July 1886; My

My 71st Year

  • Date: about 1889
Text:

Sheets.loc.00218xxx.00384My 71st Yearabout 1889poetryhandwritten1 leaf18.75 x 20.25 cm; A proof sheet of My

My 71st Year

My 71st Year

  • Date: about 1889
Text:

Sheets.loc.00340xxx.00384My 71st Yearabout 1889poetryhandwritten1 leaf11.5 x 15 cm; Proof sheet of My

My 71st Year was first published in 1889. My 71st Year

My 71st Year

  • Date: about 1889
Text:

Sheets.loc.02503xxx.00384My 71st Yearabout 1889poetryhandwritten1 leaf11.5 x 15 cm; Proof sheet of My

My 71st Year was first published in 1889. My 71st Year

My 71st Year

  • Date: about 1889
Text:

Sheets.loc.02504xxx.00384My 71st Yearabout 1889poetryhandwritten1 leaf11.5 x 15 cm; Proof sheet of My

My 71st Year was first published in 1889. My 71st Year

My 71st Year

  • Date: about 1889
Text:

Sheets.loc.02505xxx.00384My 71st Yearabout 1889poetryhandwritten1 leaf11.5 x 15 cm; Proof sheet of My

My 71st Year was first published in 1889. My 71st Year

September 11, 12, 13—1850

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— The old house in which my father's grand parents lived, (and their parents probably before them, )

—Some of them are yet represented by descendants in New England My father's grandfather was quite a large

My father's father I never saw.— Mother's family lived only two or three miles from West Hills—on a

—Her mother 's (my great grandmother's) maiden name was Mary Woolley, and her father Capt: Williams,

the lampblack and oil with which the canvass covering of the stage was painted, would make me.— After my

[Here fretful]

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

29Queries to My 70th Year (1888).

The lines were revised and published as Queries to My Seventieth Year in 1888. [Here fretful]

My Canary Bird

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

.00004xxx.00319My Canary Birdabout 1888poetryhandwritten1 leaf; This is a manuscript draft of the poem, My

My Canary Bird

Then my mother hastening

  • Date: 1883-1888
Text:

17unc.00012xxx.00486Then my mother hastening1883-1888prose1 leafhandwritten; This manuscript contains

Then my mother hastening

My Seventieth Year

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

1888poetryhandwritten1 leaf; Draft of a poem later revised and published under the title Queries to My

My Seventieth Year

The wreck of the "Mexico"

  • Date: 1882
Text:

Whitman writes about this in the passage Paumanok, and My Life on It as a Child and a Young Man, published

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