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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,
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?
William White, in his edition of Whitman's Daybooks and Notebooks, noted a relationship between material
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
140ucb.00068xxx.00959Over the glistening bronze brook[White Butterflies]1878–1882prose3 leaveshandwritten
[White Butterflies]
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."
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
Written at the top of the manuscript is the note, "White Horse notes."
theses]about 1856poetryhandwritten1 leaf4 x 16 cm pasted to 10.5 x 16 cm; On a small composite leaf of white
.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
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
White" between 1871 and 1874. This journey
Written on this small white sheet are the title of the poem (Sail out for good Eidólon yacht) and trial
leaf16 x 19 cm; A draft beginning "Peace no more, but flag of war" written in pencil on a sheet of white
copy.loc.00259xxx.00312Paumanokabout 1888poetryhandwritten1 leaf12 x 21 cm; Written in ink on a sheet of white
.00331xxx.00066xxx.00089[This moment as I sit alone]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leafcm; On one leaf of white
.00066xxx.00098[A leaf for hand-in-hand]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf14.5 x 9 cm; On one leaf of white
50-51uva.00310xxx.00066xxx.00083Calamus-Leaves1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf15 x 9 cm; On white wove
1850spoetryhandwritten1 leaf8.5 x 10 cm pasted to 20 x 16 cm; A composite leaf consisting of two pieces of white
-51uva.00312xxx.00066xxx.00099[Earth]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf14.5 x 9.5 cm; On one leaf of white
1850spoetryhandwritten1 leaf8.5 x 10 cm pasted to 20 x 16 cm; On a composite leaf consisting of two pieces of white
51uva.00328xxx.00066xxx.00103[Sometimes]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf15 x 9.5 cm; On one leaf of white
]about 1855poetryhandwritten1 leaf4.5 x 14.5 cm; These lines, appearing on a very small section of white
.00066xxx.00100[I dreamed in a dream of a]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf9.5 x 9 cm; On one leaf of white
.00337xxx.00066xxx.00104[To the young man]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf15 x 9 cm; On one leaf of white
often and silently come where you are]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf14.5 x 9 cm; On one leaf of white
homemade notebook which contains, among other notes, an account of the retreat following the battle of White
On one section of the same leaf of white ruled laid paper used for To a Historian, and with another fragment
.00095xxx.00105[Here the frailest leaves of me]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf15 x 9.5 cm; On one leaf of white
admirer1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 13 x 11.5 cm; leaf 2 20 x 16 cm; On two pieces of white
.00066xxx.00087[I saw in Louisiana a]1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leaves15 x 9.5 cm; On two leaves of white
you I have]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf8.5 x 9 cm pasted to 6.5 x 9 cm; On a composite leaf of white
of a poem inscribed on the first and third sides of two folded half-sheets (20 x 16 cm) of the same white
1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 8 x 9 cm; leaf 2 14.5 x 9.5 cm pasted to 5.5 x 9.5 cm; On two sections of white
1857-1859poetryhandwritten3 leavesleaves 1 and 2 15 x 9.5 cm; leaf 3 6.5 x 9.5 cm; On three pieces of white
1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 9.5 x 9 cm; leaf 2 14.5 x 9 cm pasted to 5 x 9.5 cm; On two pieces of white
of delight" and "tooth prong") probably contributed to the following passage in the same poem: "The white
shall see how I stump clergymen, and confound them, / You shall see me showing a scarlet tomato, and a white
These letters shed particular light on Whitman's relationship with William Michael Rossetti, the Gilchrist
The collection also includes correspondence with her children and Whitman's 1869 letter to Michael William
Literary correspondents include John Burroughs, William Sloane Kennedy, Bernard O'Dowd, Richard Maurice
Bucke, Thomas Biggs Harned, Horace Traubel, Henry Bryan Binns, Mary Mapes Dodge, William Dean Howells
, William Douglass O'Connor, and John Addington Symonds.
Williams" dated December 2, 1880. The poem was first published in 1881. A Clear Midnight
O'Connor, pub'd posthumously in 1891, which appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), and in William Douglas
.00323xxx.00586Preface1890prose1 leafhandwrittenprinted; A corrected galley proof of Whitman's Preface to William
In the lower right-hand corner is the notation: "For Francis Howard Williams, May 1896, Traubel."
The essay was reprinted with revisions as Death of William Cullen Bryant in Specimen Days in 1882.
; Written in ink on the back of a discarded letter (cancelled by a diagonal strike) from Talcott Williams
On the verso of the manuscript is a cancelled letter to Whitman from William S.
The poem mourns the death of Emperor William I of Germany on 9 March 1888, and the Herald of 10 March
It consists of draft versions of the heading for William Douglas O'Connor's The Good Gray Poet (1866)
.00830[Going back far enough]1886prose1 leafhandwritten; A manuscript written by Whitman and sent to William
On the verso Whitman has copied two stanzas of English poet William Collins' The Passions.