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red1888poetryhandwrittenprinted1 leaf; Handwritten notes and corrections on a printed copy of the poem O Captain
My Captain!
reinforce the truthfulness of Pierson's stories about the "koboo," Whitman mentions the fact that Captain
Captain Walter M.
OV 2Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), Manuscript draftloc.05452xxx.00459Good-Bye My Fancyabout 1891poetryprosehandwrittenprintedabout
10 leaves; Manuscript and corrected print material that was included in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).
Good-Bye My Fancy
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
Portions of this manuscript contributed to Some Personal and Old-Age Jottings, Good-Bye My Fancy (1891
manuscript also contains two clippings (with handwritten revisions) of the essay A Backward Glance on My
How I Made a Book, A Backward Glance on my Own Road and My Book and I (which was published in Lippincott's
Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher, which was published first in The Cosmopolitan (October 1887) and reprinted in Good-Bye My
The poem first appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy in 1891.
Whitman later included this poem in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891). For Queen Victoria's Birthday
appeared uncorrected in the 5 January 1884 issue of the Critic with the title, A Backward Glance on My
combined with two other pieces of journalism (How I Made a Book, Philadelphia Press, 11 July 1886; My
Whitman included this preface in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) as Preface to a volume of essays and tales
treatise on the theory behind Leaves of Grass, which includes a plug for Whitman's latest work, Good-Bye My
Man's Rejoinder, first published in the Critic 17 (16 August 1890) before being reprinted in Good-Bye My
of the lines only to reintroduce them in Sands at Seventy (1888), under the title Small the Theme of My
Both One's-self I Sing and Small the Theme of My Chant appeared in the 1892 edition of Leaves of Grass
reprinted as Some Personal and Old-Age Jottings in the February 28, 1891 issue of The Critic, in Good-Bye My
371886, Apr. 15, "Abraham Lincoln"loc.01762xxx.00531[The subject or text of my]1879–1887prose1 leafhandwrittenprinted
[The subject or text of my]