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the claims of the genre Culturists]undatedprosehandwritten1 leaf; One leaf with notes about how American

At the bottom is a longer prose note describing Whitman's goals for a large work about the American West

It is possible these lines were composed between 1861 and 1870, when Whitman had most reason to employ

After all, Not to Create Only, written for the opening of the fortieth Annual Exhibition of the American

Sheets from the pamphlet were included in some copies of the 1871 Leaves of Grass.

11tex.00003xxx.00501[Americans are charged with disproportionate brag and]1819-1872poetryprose1 leafhandwritten

[Americans are charged with disproportionate brag and]

Grier, the handwriting in the first and third paragraphs is that of the 1850s or 1860s; that of the second

night," perhaps related to the poem eventally titled Night on the Prairies, first published in the 1860

duk.00268xxx.00621MS q 29Poem [There can be no greatest]1860 or beforepoetryprose1 leafhandwritten; Notes

The Cruise]1860 or beforepoetryprose1 leafhandwritten; Scrap with what are apparently two trial versions

," possibly related to With Antecedents, which was first published in the New-York Saturday Press (1860

The poem was revised as Chants Democratic. 7 in Leaves of Grass (1860–1861) and took its final title,

Among the handwritten notes are several sets of ideas for poems that were never published and phrases

These were perhaps copied into the Brainard volume as he worked to write a poem in Gilchrist's honor,

Both poems were later included in November Boughs (1888) and in subsequent printings of Leaves of Grass

Among the many accusations and calumnies which were heaped upon this despised people, there was none

The answer is plain,by the hands of wicked men, and because his works were righteous, and theirs were

Know ye not that so many of us as were baptised into Jesus Christ, were baptised into his death ?

But they were not necessary, and perhaps not suited to any other people than they to whom they were written

Were you ever tempted by any devil but one in your own souls? No: you never were.

.00232Not to DazzleBefore or early in 1855number of leaves unknownprosepoetry; Lines from this manuscript were

suggests that "this sort of moralizing . . . belongs to [Whitman's] journalizing of the 1840s through the 1860s

Both poems were first published in Drum-Taps in 1865.

Lines from the notebook were used in Song of Myself and A Song of the Rolling Earth, which appeared in

appeared as the fourth poem in the 1855 Leaves; and A Song of Joys, which appeared as Poem of Joys in the 1860

from about 40˚ 34´ to 41˚ 10´ North Latitude, and from 2˚ 58´ to 5˚ 3´ East Longitude from Washington City

miles the hour without diminution or interruption, in an eastwardly direction, sweeping past the American

by the wreck of the British sloop of war Sylph, as well as parts of the vessel and cabin furniture, were

The force of the current between Oyster Pond Point and Plumb Island is very great, yet it is exceeded

afloat during low water of spring-tides, moored to the quays which bound the seaward sides of the city

It is unclear whether Whitman was simply paraphrasing Hunter's translation, or whether both stories were

The text Whitman quotes comes from the Westminster Review, American Edition, LI, (July 1849): 187 (see

Stovall, Notes on Whitman's Reading, American Literature 26, no. 3, [November 1954]: 361).

writers (see Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 5:1860

The text Whitman quotes comes from the Westminster Review, American Edition, LI, (July 1849): 186 (see

Stovall, Notes on Whitman's Reading, American Literature 26, no. 3, [November 1954]: 361).

probably related to lines on the same topic in A Song of Joys, first published as Poem of Joys in the 1860

approximately four lines, written and revised in ink, that may be related to the poem Year of Meteors. (1859–1860

Some of the terms in the list at the bottom of the scrap were added to the poem eventually titled "A

added, but two of the terms that are struck through on this manuscrpit ("saltmaking" and "arsenal") were

early in 1855poetryprose1 leafhandwritten; This draft fragment includes phrases and poetic lines that were

As if it were anything to analyze fluids and call certain parts oxygen or hydrogen, or to map out stars

The various dates referenced suggest that the earliest portions of it were written sometime after 1845

earliest date for the writing on the verso is likely March 1853, when the two Cumberland Street houses were

nyp.00511xxx.00048[I can tell of the long besieged city]I can tell of the long besieged city1845–1855prosepoetry1

leafhandwritten; A scrap of paper with poetic lines that were used in revised form in the 1855 edition

The lines contained in this manuscript were eventually used in the poem ultimately titled Song of Myself

[I can tell of the long besieged city]

ideas in this manuscript came from an article entitled Thoughts on Reading that appeared in the American

Whig Review in May 1845 (Notes on Whitman's Reading, American Literature 26.3 [November 1954]: 352).

American literature must become distinct

1860prosehandwritten1 leaf; Edward Grier suggests that this manuscript was probably written prior to 1860

sentiment between it and the initial line of No. 4 of the Thoughts cluster published first in the 1860

similar manuscripts that are numbered sequentially and probably date from around or before 1855: see "American

See Emory Holloway, ed., The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, New York: Doubleday

Whitman marked this line in an article published in an 1846 issue of the American Whig Review (Translators

of Homer American Whig Review 4, no. 1 [July 1846]: 364).

The Quirites were a Sabine race. These two towns were hostile to each other.

The senators were chosen for life.

were taken from, before they were conquered.

to the Etruscan city.

Schlegel 272 were hewn.

It is unclear whether Whitman was simply paraphrasing Hunter's translation, or whether both stories were

It is unclear whether Whitman was simply paraphrasing Hunter's translation, or whether both stories were

men, "capable of deeds of might, blessings, poems, enlightenment," with the suggestion that these were

Coleridge, Lloyd, and Lovell were those who were his first intellectual associates; after a time, Wordsworth

, Lamb, and Cottle were added.

All these were men of a peculiar stamp, some of the highest powers.

fitted for emigration to a new world than they were.

Both Lloyd and Lovell were singular beings.

Clipping on final page appeared in Scientific American, 25 September 1847; here it is pasted on a February

1851 essay on Robert Southey from the American Whig Review.

.00522Like Earth O RiverLike Earth O River, you offer us burial1848poetry1 leafhandwritten; These lines were

published as The Mississippi at Midnight on March 6, 1848, in the New Orleans Daily Crescent, though they were

Parts of the poem were reworked and first published as section five of Passage to India (1871).

.— These lines were probably drafted as part of the poem published as "The Mississippi at Midnight" on

March 6, 1848, in the New Orleans Daily Crescent, though they were not included in the published version

These lines were probably drafted as part of the poem published as "The Mississippi at Midnight" on March

6, 1848, in the New Orleans Daily Crescent, though they were not included in the published version of

left for New Orleans in February, 1848, so this manuscript was written after that date.; This lines were

from it, the revealed system of medicine, the Puranas, or sacred histories, and the code of Menu, were

—"A number of glosses or comments on Menu were composed by the Munis, or old philosophers, whose treatises

We seem to be dabbling in the very elements of our present conventional and actual life; as if it were

where how to eat and to drink and to sleep, and maintain life with adequate dignity and sincerity, were

In another era the "lily-of-the valley, cowslip, dandelion," were to work their way down into the plain

Many were spent in travel—some in the pursuit of power and wealth—which pursuit was successful.

the patter of horses' hoofs sounded rapidly on the road—but the beatings of the traveller's heart were

—He came in the day, when crowds were in the rooms—though all to him was a vacant blank—all but the corpse

—And at last he came in the silence of the midnight before the burial, when the tired watchers were asleep

—He bent down his ear to the cold blue lips and listened—but the cold blue lips were hushed for ever.

These bits were written for the Brooklyn Newspapers, Times, Eagle Star etc— Alfred F Goldsmith—June 17

These bits were written for the Brooklyn Newspapers, Times, Eagle Star etc— Alfred F Goldsmith—June 17

After further revision Whitman published these verses in the October 30, 1880 issue of The American under

blank, the manuscript appears to be a set of notes he made between 1857 and 1859 while preparing the 1860

Whitman's Pictures were not published in their entirety until 1925.

149uva.00292xxx.00112xxx.00085A City WalkAbout 1855poetryhandwritten1 leaf4.5 x 12 cm; A faint horizontal

line beneath part of "A City Walk," along with the words' capitalization and central position on the

18 in his Blue Book revisions of the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.

This title was changed in the Blue Book to City of orgies, walks and joys and finally became City of

The poem was retitled Crossing Brooklyn Ferry in 1860. A City Walk

If it was the 1860 edition, as his style of inscription here appears to indicate, it is possible that

this leaf could represent an early stage of the poem that would eventually become City of Orgies, 1867

in the 1860 edition.

These were further revised for the 1856 Poem of Many in One, after which the first verse drafted on this

The two verses below this, however, were preserved relatively unchanged through the poem's many transformations

in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.. A plate mark can be clearly seen on the verso.

to the (eventual) second verse paragraph in section 6 of Starting from Paumanok, first published in 1860

Lines from the manuscript were included in the first poem in that edition, eventually titled Song of

and structure, the manuscript most closely resembles lines 39–43 in Debris, a poem published in the 1860

revision and expansion to have eventually formed part of section 21 of the cluster Calamus in the 1860