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The Johns Hopkins University holds one Whitman poetry manuscript (a handwritten version of O Captain!
My Captain!)
It was reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy in 1891, with the additional note: "General Sheridan was buried
The Pallid Wreath, which was published in the Critic 18 (10 January 1891) and reprinted in Good-Bye My
leaveshandwritten; Lightly revised printer's copy of For Queen Victoria's Birthday, which was published in Good-Bye My
, a poem first published in Good-Bye My Fancy in 1891. On, on the Same, ye Jocund Twain, Manuscript
leafhandwritten; Draft fragment of a note for the short poem An Ended Day, which was first published in Good-Bye My
OV 2Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), Manuscript draftloc.05458xxx.00459Good-Bye My Fancy1891poetryprintedhandwritten14
leaves; Manuscript and corrected print material that was included in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).
Good-Bye My Fancy
152yal.00146xxx.00866Walt Whitman's Last—Good-Bye My Fancy1891prose1 leafhandwritten; A draft of Walt
Walt Whitman's Last—Good-Bye My Fancy
treatise on the theory behind Leaves of Grass, which includes a plug for Whitman's latest work, Good-Bye My
jhu.00001xxx.00218MS. 7O Captain! My Captain!
April 30, 1890poetry1 leafhandwritten; A handwritten version of O Captain! My Captain!
O Captain! My Captain!
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!
26Death Dogs My Steps (1890).
A.MS. draft.loc.00120xxx.00406Death Dogs My Stepsabout March 3, 1890poetryhandwritten1 leaf12 x 19 cm
; Draft of Death Dogs My Steps written in ink on the inside of a discarded and opened out envelope, addressed
Death Dogs My Steps
It was later reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), under the title American National Literature before
reprinted as Some Personal and Old-Age Jottings in the February 28, 1891 issue of The Critic, in Good-Bye My
which was first published in the August 16, 1890 issue of the Critic and later reprinted in Good-Bye My
leafhandwritten; Manuscript notes, heavily revised, apparently for the preface to Whitman's 1891 volume Good-Bye My
before being collected in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891). [Then Another and very grave point]
This is a draft of the essay Whitman later published as American National Literature in Good-Bye My Fancy
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).
It later appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) and, as part of the Good-Bye my Fancy annex, in the so-called
Critic (titled Shakspere for America) on September 27, 1890, and then included in Whitman's Good-Bye My
It was later published under the title Some Personal and Old-Age Jottings in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891)
Review in November 1890 and later reprinted in the Pall Mall Gazette (17 November 1890) and in Good-Bye My
the recto are prefatory in nature and reflect the spirit of the preface to Whitman's 1891 Good-Bye My
the mullein and the bumble-bee" is on page 36 of the section entitled Gathering the Corn of Good-Bye My
published in Have We a National Literature, (North American Review, 152, March 1891), and in Good-bye My
(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
On the verso is a note in Whitman's hand reading "to my 2d & last Annex for L of G."
leafhandwritten; This manuscript contains part of an autobiographical sketch on the composition of Good-bye My
Man's Rejoinder, first published in the Critic 17 (16 August 1890) before being reprinted in Good-Bye My
O'Connor, pub'd posthumously in 1891, which appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), and in William Douglas
Whitman included this preface in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) as Preface to a volume of essays and tales
November, 1889 issue of The Century Magazine, (one full, one partial) which included Whitman's poem My
only three pages of one of the copies are available (cover, table of contents, and the page on which My
My 71st Year
loc.04657xxx.00948[To-day completes my three-score-and]1889prosepoetry1 leafprintedhandwritten; Printer's
[To-day completes my three-score-and]
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
the verso (not in Whitman's hand) makes reference to the title of this poem, as well as to Good-Bye My
The poem was retitled To the Pending Year for its inclusion in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) Have I no word
22tex.00036xxx.00384MY 71st YEARMY 71st YEAR1889poetry1 leafproof with revisions; Corrected proof of My
MY 71st YEAR
It later appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) and, as part of the Good-Bye my Fancy annex, in the so-called
which was published in Lippincott's Magazine as To the Sunset Breeze in December 1890, in Good-Bye My
Fancy (1891) and, as part of the Good-Bye my Fancy annex, in the so-called deathbed edition of Leaves
Retitled To the Pending Year, it was included in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) and, as part of the Good-Bye
my Fancy annex, in the so-called deathbed edition of Leaves of Grass (1891–92).
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!
Whitman originally included the poem in his 1891 manuscript for the Good-Bye My Fancy annex to Leaves
General Philip Henry Sheridan's death (on August 5), and later as Interpolation Sounds in Good-Bye My
red1888poetryhandwrittenprinted1 leaf; Handwritten notes and corrections on a printed copy of the poem O Captain
My Captain!
1891prose1 leafhandwritten; Draft fragment of American National Literature, first published in Good-Bye My
Old Chants first appeared in Truth (19 March 1891), and was reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).
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
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]).
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]).
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]).
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).