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Search : William White
Section : Literary Manuscripts

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"Summer Duck"

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1855
Text:

William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a possible relationship between the opening words and the first poem of the 1855 edition,

[med Cophósis]

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1854
Text:

William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

Diary in Canada

  • Date: 1880
Text:

William White, in his edition of Whitman's Daybooks and Notebooks, noted a relationship between material

9th av.

  • Date: between 1854 and 1860
Text:

William White, in his edition of Whitman's Daybooks and Notebooks (New York: New York University Press

noted a relationship between rough drafts of poems in this notebook (called An Early Notebook in White's

"Summer Duck"

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

. / And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me, / And consider the green and violet and

"Summer Duck" or "Wood Duck" "wood drake" very gay, including in its colors white, red, yellow, green

William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a possible relationship between the opening words and the first poem of the 1855 edition,

Annotations Text:

William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a possible relationship between the opening words and the first poem of the 1855 edition,

med Cophósis

  • Date: Between 1852 and 1854
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Shade —An twenty-five old men old man with rapid gestures—eyes black and flashing like lightning—long white

William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

Annotations Text:

William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New

White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

The horizon's edge

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, eventually titled "There Was a Child Went Forth": "And grass, and white

and red morningglories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phoebe-bird, / ... / And the appletrees

cottonwood

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

cottonwood—mulberry— chickadee—large brown water-dog— —black-snake—garter snake— —vinegar-plums—persimmon— — wh white-blossom

place with a pistol and killed himself, and I came that way and stumbled upon him locust, birch with white

reckon think mind less you very are a good manure —but that I do not smell— —I smell the your beautiful white

Annotations Text:

and "And as to you corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, / I smell the white

[White Butterflies]

  • Date: 1878–1882
Text:

140ucb.00068xxx.00959Over the glistening bronze brook[White Butterflies]1878–1882prose3 leaveshandwritten

[White Butterflies]

[The ball-room was swept]

  • Date: about 1860
Text:

12tex.00011xxx.00705The Ballroom was swept and the floor white…[The ball-room was swept]about 1860poetry1

leafhandwritten; Three lines of a poem beginning "The ball-room was swept, and the floor white."

['76 White Horse]

  • Date: 1876
Text:

154ucb.00055xxx.00811Cloudy and Coolish['76 White Horse]1876prose2 leaveshandwritten; A Draft fragment

–1883) as part of Autumn Side-Bits, which was later collected in Complete Prose Works (1892). ['76 White

Maize-Tassels

  • Date: undated
Text:

Written at the top of the manuscript is the note, "White Horse notes."

scene in the woods on

  • Date: 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Hospital Note Book Walt Whitman This prose narrative (probably describing the battle of White Oak Swamp

scene in the woods on the peninsula—told me by Milton Roberts, ward G (Maine) after the battle of White

The prose narrative at the beginning probably describes the battle of White Oak Swamp and is the basis

Annotations Text:

The prose narrative at the beginning probably describes the battle of White Oak Swamp and is the basis

[My two theses]

  • Date: about 1856
Text:

theses]about 1856poetryhandwritten1 leaf4 x 16 cm pasted to 10.5 x 16 cm; On a small composite leaf of white

[When I heard at the close of]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00080[When I heard at the close of]1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leaves15 x 9.5 cm; On two leaves of white

paper, both measuring 15 x 9.5 cm; the lower half of the second page is pasted over with a section of white

Autobiographical Data

  • Date: Between 1848 and 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Winter of 1840, went to white stone, and was there till next spring.— Went to New York in May 1841, and

Edward the Confessor, a Saxon, king.— Harold, son of a nobleman.— His pretensions were opposed by William

, Duke of Normandy.— The crown had been left William by Edward the Confessor.— Pope in favor of William

William entered England, fought Harold, defeated him, and gained the crown.

William the Conqueror 1087 William Rufus, son " 1100 Henry I.

Of this broad and majestic

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Text:

Later in the manuscript he writes of "the buckwheat and its white tops and the bees that hum there all

day," and on page 36 of the 1855 Leaves he writes of the "white and brown buckwheat, a hummer and a

The mountain‑ash

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

The mountain‑ash, a large shrub, 16 or 2 0 ft high—northern part of the state of New York —has white

blossoms—blooms early in the spring—has then a pleasant perfume—the hill‑sides where it grows thickly look white

An Ossianic Paragraph

  • Date: After 1846; 13 November 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
Text:

went out by night and struck the bosky shield, and called to him the spirits of the heroes and the white-armed

To me, too, came those visionary shapes; floating slowly and gracefully, their white robes would unfurl

The Indians in American Art

  • Date: After January 1, 1856; January 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
Text:

else in the other extreme, hung about with skulls, scalps, and the half-devoured fragments of the white

the costumed European less; for it cannot be hidden that it is the seductive blandishments of the white

West knew the Indians when comparatively untainted by the white man's vices.

seated on one side of the house, and the English on the other, who, after lecturing them upon the white

Poem

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

titled "Song of Myself," first published as the first poem in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass: "The white-topped

Walt Whitman's Reading: A Bibliographical Handlist

  • Date: 1921; 1906–1996; 1959
Text:

White 1825 1, 5, 7-9, 11, 23-25, 37, 41, 45, 47-48, 76-77 loc.03449 Thompson, Benjamin F.

Whitman appends this clipping on William Cowper's poetry to a commentary on British poets.

Campbell, William W.

Bohn Cowper, William The poetical works of William Cowper, with a biographical notice by H.F.

Shaw Consuelo William H.

Hands Round

  • Date: Between 1865 and 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Onward, on, Circling, circling, moving roundward & onward As our hands we grasp for the Union all Red, white

, blue to eastward , western westward Red, white, blue, to the sou northern , southern with the breezes

distinctness every syllable the flounderer

  • Date: 1840s or early 1850s
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

every syllable the flounderer spoke, up to his hips in the snow, and blinded by the cutting sharp white

crystals making that made the air densely one opaque white.

This journey

  • Date: about 1871–1874 and about 1891
Text:

White" between 1871 and 1874. This journey

Sail out for Good Eidolon yacht

  • Date: about 1891
Text:

Written on this small white sheet are the title of the poem (Sail out for good Eidólon yacht) and trial

[Peace no more]

  • Date: undated
Text:

leaf16 x 19 cm; A draft beginning "Peace no more, but flag of war" written in pencil on a sheet of white

How would it do

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
Text:

city—ma femme—O never forgotten by me Maine Fish— Codfish mackarel mackerel herring salmon lumber) white

one third of all the U.S. ship building Lumbering— Merrimac state New Hampshire "granite state" the white

Carolina, extending into Virginia—10x30 miles full of pine, juniper & cypress trees, with white & red

Pedee —the Santee the Edisto —the Palmetto—40 feet high (the "Cabbage Palm) —the laurel, with large white

sand-hills of the middle-Country, like agitated waves—the pleasant table-lands beyond Arkansas Rivers—the White

Paumanok

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

copy.loc.00259xxx.00312Paumanokabout 1888poetryhandwritten1 leaf12 x 21 cm; Written in ink on a sheet of white

Africa (The Equator

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

miles the Congo, (1000 miles or more, emptying into the Atlantic through Lower Guinea The Nile The white

black and venerable vast mother, the Nile, White River , away down in Ethiopia, emptying in the Nile

[This moment as I sit alone]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00331xxx.00066xxx.00089[This moment as I sit alone]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leafcm; On one leaf of white

Nehemiah Whitman

  • Date: Between 1845 and 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

on the old Hills homestead at West Hills—which was inherited by his son, His wife was Phebe Sarah White

— Sarah White born about 1713 " died " 180 1 see next page—bottom Jesse Whitman, born Jan. 29, 1749 died

—Lived in Classon from May 1st '56, '7 '8 '9 Lived in Portland av. from May 1st '59 '60 '61 Sarah White

[A leaf for hand-in-hand]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00066xxx.00098[A leaf for hand-in-hand]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf14.5 x 9 cm; On one leaf of white

Calamus-Leaves

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

50-51uva.00310xxx.00066xxx.00083Calamus-Leaves1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf15 x 9 cm; On white wove

Where the little musk ox

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

life car is drawn on its slip‑noose At dinner on a dish of huckleberries, or rye bread and a round white

In the garden

  • Date: late 1850s
Text:

1850spoetryhandwritten1 leaf8.5 x 10 cm pasted to 20 x 16 cm; A composite leaf consisting of two pieces of white

[Earth]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

-51uva.00312xxx.00066xxx.00099[Earth]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf14.5 x 9.5 cm; On one leaf of white

City of my walks and joys

  • Date: late 1850s
Text:

1850spoetryhandwritten1 leaf8.5 x 10 cm pasted to 20 x 16 cm; On a composite leaf consisting of two pieces of white

[Sometimes]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

51uva.00328xxx.00066xxx.00103[Sometimes]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf15 x 9.5 cm; On one leaf of white

[How can there be immortality]

  • Date: about 1855
Text:

]about 1855poetryhandwritten1 leaf4.5 x 14.5 cm; These lines, appearing on a very small section of white

[I dreamed in a dream of a]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00066xxx.00100[I dreamed in a dream of a]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf9.5 x 9 cm; On one leaf of white

[To the young man]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00337xxx.00066xxx.00104[To the young man]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf15 x 9 cm; On one leaf of white

[O you whom I often and silently come where you are]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

often and silently come where you are]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf14.5 x 9 cm; On one leaf of white

[scene in the woods on]

  • Date: 1863–1864
Text:

homemade notebook which contains, among other notes, an account of the retreat following the battle of White

To a Cantatrice

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

On one section of the same leaf of white ruled laid paper used for To a Historian, and with another fragment

[Here the frailest leaves of me]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00095xxx.00105[Here the frailest leaves of me]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf15 x 9.5 cm; On one leaf of white

halt in the shade

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— wood-duck on my distan le around. purposes, nd white playing within me the tufted crown intentional

Annotations Text:

I believe in those winged purposes, / And acknowledge the red yellow and white playing within me, / And

To a new personal admirer

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

admirer1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 13 x 11.5 cm; leaf 2 20 x 16 cm; On two pieces of white

[I saw in Louisiana a]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00066xxx.00087[I saw in Louisiana a]1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leaves15 x 9.5 cm; On two leaves of white

[What think you I have]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

you I have]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf8.5 x 9 cm pasted to 6.5 x 9 cm; On a composite leaf of white

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