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The essay was reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) before finally being collected in Complete Prose
leafhandwritten; This is an unsigned draft of Grand Is the Seen, a poem first published in Good-Bye My
Good-Bye My Fancy was then included as the second annex to the Deathbed edition of Leaves of Grass (1891
Surface 40 contains, among other notes, a cancelled line reading "yet my soul-dearest leaves—the hardest
for a set of Whitmans's books: "Dear Sir, I shall be glad to supply you with a set (Two Volumes) of my
South"—which was first published in theMay, 1890 Century and then included in the second annex Good-Bye My
to my Notes" is written along the top of the page.
Some lines in this manuscript can also be found in [I just spin out my notes], another prose manuscript
.00986My Native Sand and Salt Once MoreJuly 25 '81—Far Rockaway LI1881prose4 leaveshandwritten; A draft of My
26Come, said my Soul… Proof with signature.loc.00183xxx.00596Come, Said My Soul1881poetryhandwritten1
On verso reads "Copyright 1881, By Walt Whitman, All rights reserved" Come, Said My Soul
Whitman writes about this in the passage Paumanok, and My Life on It as a Child and a Young Man, published
29Queries to My 70th Year (1888).
The lines were revised and published as Queries to My Seventieth Year in 1888. [Here fretful]
.00004xxx.00319My Canary Birdabout 1888poetryhandwritten1 leaf; This is a manuscript draft of the poem, My
My Canary Bird
17unc.00012xxx.00486Then my mother hastening1883-1888prose1 leafhandwritten; This manuscript contains
Then my mother hastening
1888poetryhandwritten1 leaf; Draft of a poem later revised and published under the title Queries to My
My Seventieth Year
Sheets.loc.00218xxx.00384My 71st Yearabout 1889poetryhandwritten1 leaf18.75 x 20.25 cm; A proof sheet of My
My 71st Year
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
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
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
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
This manuscript contributed to American's Bulk Average, which first appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891
It was publised with the revised title in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891). Interpolation Sounds
It was reprinted, without the subtitle, in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) and in the Good-By my Fancy annex
passage used in a note (entitled "Another Note") to the poem An Ended Day published in 1891 in Good-Bye My
leaf; A draft entitled This Journey (the manuscript suggests Whitman was also considering the title My
reciting (published as Old Chants in 1891), Grand is the seen (first published in 1891), Death dogs my
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
and I1886 or 1887prose22 leaveshandwritten; A late-stage draft, with printer's notes, of the essay My
My Book and I
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
s Purport (only two lines of the twelve-line poem of the same title first published in 1891), My task
Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher, which was published first in The Cosmopolitan (October 1887) and reprinted in Good-Bye My
which it underwent various changes in content, title, and position until being joined with Now List to My
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!
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).
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).
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]).
Retitled To the Pending Year, the poem appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy in 1891. To the year 1889
Portions of this manuscript appeared in Some Personal and Old-Age Jottings, first published in Good-Bye My
General Philip Henry Sheridan's death (on August 5), and later as Interpolation Sounds in Good-Bye My
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
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
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
It was later reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), under the title American National Literature before