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3yal.00006xxx.00139Sea Captains, Young or Oldabout 1873poetry2 leaveshandwritten; This manuscript is
a signed draft of Sea Captains, Young or Old, which was published first in the New York Daily Graphic
Sea Captains, Young or Old
1Drift Sandsloc.04185xxx.00310[Sands on the Shores of my 64th year]about 1883poetry1 leaf6 x 14 to 20.5
x 16.5 cmhandwritten; Trial titles and notes, including Sands on the Shores of my 64th year.
[Sands on the Shores of my 64th year]
1Drift Sandsloc.04229xxx.00310[Sands on the Shores of my 60th year]about 1879poetry1 leaf6 x 14 to 20.5
x 16.5 cmhandwritten; Trial titles and notes, including Sands on the Shores of my 60th year.
[Sands on the Shores of my 60th year]
bv6tex.00067xxx.00380Good-bye My Fancy: Sail out for Good, Eidólon YachtSail out for good, Eidólon yacht1890poetry1
It was reprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891).
Poem in the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass: "The best I had done seemed to me blank and suspicious, / My
The lines "I am too great to be a mere President or Major General / I remain with my fellows—with mechanics
fool and the wise thinker" may be related to a similar phrase in the poem eventually titled Who Learns My
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).
A.MS. draft.loc.00088xxx.00236Returning to my pages' front oncebetween 1871 and 1876poetryhandwritten1
Returning to my pages' front once
pri.00035xxx.00808[Returned from my four months]1879–1882prose1 leafhandwritten; A short note in which
[Returned from my four months]
to an "Elder Brother" is reminescent of lines "And I know that the hand of God is the elderhand of my
own, / And I know that the spirit of God is the eldest brother of my own."
leafhandwritten; This manuscript bears some similarity in subject to the poem that became Who Learns My
of the poem (not including this line) were revised and published in The American in October 1880 as My
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
reprinted as Some Personal and Old-Age Jottings in the February 28, 1891 issue of The Critic, in Good-Bye My
. / I intend to reach them my hand and make as much of them as I do of men and women" (1855, p. 64).
See in particular the lines: "The supernatural of no account . . . . myself waiting my time to be one
Whitman included this preface in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) as Preface to a volume of essays and tales
Grier notes that a portion of this notebook (beginning "How spied the captain and sailors") describes
The first several lines of draft were revised and published as My Picture-Gallery in The American in
The Pallid Wreath, which was published in the Critic 18 (10 January 1891) and reprinted in Good-Bye My
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
The poem first appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy in 1891.
, a poem first published in Good-Bye My Fancy in 1891. On, on the Same, ye Jocund Twain, Manuscript
(first published in 1891), My task (published as part of L. of G.'s Purport in 1891), L. of G.'
s Purport (only the first two lines of the poem of the same title published in 1891), Death dogs my steps
s Purport (only two lines of the twelve-line poem of the same title first published in 1891), My task
Critic (titled Shakspere for America) on September 27, 1890, and then included in Whitman's Good-Bye My
Review in November 1890 and later reprinted in the Pall Mall Gazette (17 November 1890) and in Good-Bye My
Man's Rejoinder, first published in the Critic 17 (16 August 1890) before being reprinted in Good-Bye My
reciting (published as Old Chants in 1891), Grand is the seen (first published in 1891), Death dogs my
Old Chants first appeared in Truth (19 March 1891), and was reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).
Echoes cluster, first published in Lippincott's Magazine 47 (March 1891) and then reprinted in Good-bye My
The writing on the verso (not in Whitman's hand) makes reference to Good-Bye My Fancy and to Sounds of
red1888poetryhandwrittenprinted1 leaf; Handwritten notes and corrections on a printed copy of the poem O Captain
My Captain!
27O Earth, My Likeness (1860).
A.MS. draft.loc.00225xxx.00099[O Earth, my likeness]1860poetryhandwritten1 leaf20.5 x 16 cm; A draft
of the poem first published as Calamus, No. 36 in 1860 (Earth, My Likeness in the final version of Leaves
[O Earth, my likeness]
pml.00002xxx.00218MA 1212O Captain! My Captain!27 April 1890poetryhandwritten1 leaf; O Captain!
My Captain!
Mitchell's hand says, "To give Walt a little money I offered for a gentleman 100$ for an autograph copy of My
Captain—I pin it to Furness note April 1890."
O Captain! My Captain!
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!
ihm.00002xxx.00218O Captain! My Captain!
1889-1890poetry1 leafhandwritten; A manuscript copy of O Captain! My Captain!
O Captain! My Captain!
O Captain! My Captain!
jhu.00001xxx.00218MS. 7O Captain! My Captain!
April 30, 1890poetry1 leafhandwritten; A handwritten version of O Captain! My Captain!
O Captain! My Captain!
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]).
verses in this notebook were published posthumously as [I Stand and Look], Ship of Libertad, and Of My
Surface 40 contains, among other notes, a cancelled line reading "yet my soul-dearest leaves—the hardest
The poem is one of the thiry-one poems included in Second Annex--Good-Bye My Fancy, 1891–1892.
Whitman retitled the poem To My Soul when it was first published, in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass
It was later reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), under the title American National Literature before
149uva.00009xxx.00713[My two theses]about 1856poetryhandwritten1 leaf4 x 16 cm pasted to 10.5 x 16 cm
[My two theses]
harness," "traces," "the bit"—may relate to the extended metaphor developed in following lines: "Deluding my
bribed to swap off with touch, and go and graze at the edges of me, / No consideration, no regard for my
draining strength or my anger, / Fetching the rest of the herd around to enjoy them awhile, / Then all
those used in Unnamed Lands, a poem published first in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.; duk.00003 My
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
My Spirit sped back to
1888poetryhandwritten1 leaf; Draft of a poem later revised and published under the title Queries to My
My Seventieth Year
revision Whitman published these verses in the October 30, 1880 issue of The American under the title My
My picture gallery
My own visits and distributions
.00096xxx.00661My Own Poemsundatedpoetryhandwritten1 leaf25.5 x 12.5 cm; Rough draft of a poem entitled My
This draft was published posthumously as My Own Poems. My Own Poems
.; uva.00601 My hand will not hurt what