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Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Library of Congress

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Text:

Other correspondents include Anne Burrows Gilchrist, Thomas Biggs Harned, William Sloane Kennedy, James

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Walt Whitman Collection, Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Text:

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.

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Liverpool Central Library

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Text:

The Liverpool Central Library; William Brown St.; Liverpool, L38EW; England

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 | Bucke, R.M. | Burroughs, John
Text:

The correspondence includes two longer runs, one to William O' Connor and the other to his wife, Ellen

William O'Connor, author of The Good Gray Poet (1866), was one of Whitman's closest friends until an

Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Text:

Johnston, William Douglas O'Connor, and Horace and Anne Montgomerie Traubel.; This catalog includes item-level

He first read Whitman's poetry in William M.

Sail out for good? for aye, O mystic yacht!

  • Date: 1890 or 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

of me Heave the anchor short, Raise main-sail and jib—steer forth, for aye O little white-hull'd sloop

Ship Ahoy!

  • Date: January 2, 1891
Text:

On the verso of the manuscript is a cancelled letter to Whitman from William S.

Copy of the OConnor preface

  • Date: 1890
Text:

O'Connor, pub'd posthumously in 1891, which appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), and in William Douglas

Preface

  • Date: 1890
Text:

.00323xxx.00586Preface1890prose1 leafhandwrittenprinted; A corrected galley proof of Whitman's Preface to William

National Literature

  • Date: 1890 or 1891
Text:

the backing sheet's lower right corner is dated 1907 and indicates that he presented this item to William

Certainties, Faith, Counterbalances, Alternation

  • Date: About 1887 or 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

On the back of this manuscript is an undated letter to Whitman from Talcott Williams.

After the dazzle of Day

  • Date: 1887 or 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Walt Whitman sent to pub. in Herald early in Feb. '88 For Francis Howard Williams | May 1896 | Traubel

The Dead Emperor

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

The poem mourns the death of Emperor William I of Germany on 9 March 1888, and the Herald of 10 March

wooding at night

  • Date: Between 1848 and 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—he was called "Doctor"; wore a white cravat; was deaf, tall, apparently rheumatic, and slept most of

Certainties, Faith, Counterbalances, Alternation

  • Date: about 1887 or 1888
Text:

; Written in ink on the back of a discarded letter (cancelled by a diagonal strike) from Talcott Williams

Sail out for Good Eidolon yacht

  • Date: about 1891
Text:

Written on this small white sheet are the title of the poem (Sail out for good Eidólon yacht) and trial

After the Dazzle of Day

  • Date: 1887 or 1888
Text:

In the lower right-hand corner is the notation: "For Francis Howard Williams, May 1896, Traubel."

If I should need to name, O Western World!

  • Date: October 25, 1884
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

spasmic geyser‑loops ascending to the skies, ap— pearing appearing and disappearing, Nor Oregon's white

Camden - Phila

  • Date: 1884
Text:

On the reverse of the manuscript is a note by William Sloane Kennedy. Camden - Phila

With husky‑haughty lips, O Sea!

  • Date: Late 1883 or early 1884
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

night I wend thy surf‑beat shore, Imaging to my sense thy varied strange suggestions, Thy troops of white‑maned

September 11, 12, 13—1850

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—Her father was Major Van Velsor, and her mother's name Naomi Williams.— Capt.

Williams had his wife, her parents, fine old couple, exceedingly generous— I remember them both (my mother's

—Her mother 's (my great grandmother's) maiden name was Mary Woolley, and her father Capt: Williams,

Here is a list of the immediate family

  • Date: about 1883
Text:

It consists of draft versions of the heading for William Douglas O'Connor's The Good Gray Poet (1866)

Paumanok

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

copy.loc.00259xxx.00312Paumanokabout 1888poetryhandwritten1 leaf12 x 21 cm; Written in ink on a sheet of white

Hands Round

  • Date: Between 1865 and 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Onward, on, Circling, circling, moving roundward & onward As our hands we grasp for the Union all Red, white

, blue to eastward , western westward Red, white, blue, to the sou northern , southern with the breezes

Diary in Canada

  • Date: 1880
Text:

William White, in his edition of Whitman's Daybooks and Notebooks, noted a relationship between material

A Clear Midnight

  • Date: about 1880
Text:

Williams" dated December 2, 1880. The poem was first published in 1881. A Clear Midnight

[New York visit]

  • Date: 1878
Text:

The essay was reprinted with revisions as Death of William Cullen Bryant in Specimen Days in 1882.

[White Butterflies]

  • Date: 1878–1882
Text:

140ucb.00068xxx.00959Over the glistening bronze brook[White Butterflies]1878–1882prose3 leaveshandwritten

[White Butterflies]

Out from Behind this Mask

  • Date: About 1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The poem was written in response to an engraving by William J.

['76 White Horse]

  • Date: 1876
Text:

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

Waves in the Vessel's wake

  • Date: About 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

hastening waves from afar, smaller on larger, And the far billows reaching up, with their prying looks and white

Ashes of Roses

  • Date: Between 1868 and 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

but all through the land The names of the flowers. lilacs roses early lilies the colors, purple & white

Sparkles from the Wheel

  • Date: 1871
Text:

Those who envy or calumniate great men, hate God William Blake[.]"

This journey

  • Date: about 1871–1874 and about 1891
Text:

White" between 1871 and 1874. This journey

[The trilogy]

  • Date: about 1871
Text:

On the verso of one of the leaves is a letter from William Black seeking Whitman's autograph.

I cross'd the Nevadas

  • Date: About 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

fresh'd refresh'd by the storm, I watch'd with joy the threatening maws of the waves, I mark'd the white

Review—

  • Date: 23–24 May, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

had been battle flags Pioneers with axes on shoulders the crowds the perfect day—the clear sky—the white

Veil with their lids, &c

  • Date: about 1870
Text:

The poem is apparently based on a photograph of Whitman possibly taken by the photographer, William Kurtz

scene in the woods on

  • Date: 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Hospital Note Book Walt Whitman This prose narrative (probably describing the battle of White Oak Swamp

scene in the woods on the peninsula—told me by Milton Roberts, ward G (Maine) after the battle of White

The prose narrative at the beginning probably describes the battle of White Oak Swamp and is the basis

Annotations Text:

The prose narrative at the beginning probably describes the battle of White Oak Swamp and is the basis

from Hookers command

  • Date: 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

men badly burnt by explosion of caissons &c —wrote a number of letters for Ohio & Indiana m en Wm Williams

Armory May 12 William Williams co F. 27th Indiana wounded seriously in shoulder— a he lay naked to the

Williams Lafayette Tippecanoe co. Indiana Noah Laing bed 36 Ward I Mrs. Edwin Burt.

[scene in the woods on]

  • Date: 1863–1864
Text:

homemade notebook which contains, among other notes, an account of the retreat following the battle of White

Nehemiah Whitman

  • Date: Between 1845 and 1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

on the old Hills homestead at West Hills—which was inherited by his son, His wife was Phebe Sarah White

— Sarah White born about 1713 " died " 180 1 see next page—bottom Jesse Whitman, born Jan. 29, 1749 died

—Lived in Classon from May 1st '56, '7 '8 '9 Lived in Portland av. from May 1st '59 '60 '61 Sarah White

Slavery

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— All white working men, South as well as north are or ought to be against them; for the establishment

from the ancles ankles legs of the slave,—if his breast then feel no more the blood whether black or white

seize with violence on what our laws only know, until duly advised different, as peaceful Americans, white

wretched countrymen of mine, born and bred on American soil, his father or grandfather very likely a white

9th av.

  • Date: Between 1854 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

disposition of the notebook and that both of these also differ from the ordering in the transcription of William

White, Daybooks and Notebooks (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 3:777–803.

Annotations Text:

the notebook and that both of these also differ from the ordering in the transcription of William White

women

  • Date: Between about 1854 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Democratic" poem of the 1860 edition of eventually titled "Our Old Feuillage," in which Whitman writes of "White

T bluey spoon-drift, like a white race-horse of brine, speeds before me This section bears some resemblance

The village on the highland, seen from afar at sunset—the sun sh ining on the red white or brown gables

red, white or brown the ferry boat ever plying forever and ever over the river This passage was used

Progenitors

  • Date: 1850s
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

John Williams & Mary Woolley Cold Spring, LI parents of Amy Williams mother's mother They (Capt.

of these poems

  • Date: Between 1845 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Whitman transcribed part of William Collins's "Ode on the Passions" on the back of this leaf. of these

Cultural Geography Scrapbook

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; Date unknown; 1847; 1855; 20 June 1857; 15 August 1857; unknown; 01 October 1857; 13 October 1857; 14 October 1858; 10 October 1858; 15 October 1858; 1849; 09 January 1858; 19 July 1856; 14 March 1857; 06 October 1856; 13 July 1859; 17 February 1860; 12 December 1856; 21 March 1857; 1848; 08 December 1855; 17 August 1857; 05 April 1857; 1857; 26 December 1857; 06 December 1857; 31 January 1857; 28 January 1858; 14 November 1856; 25 May 1857; 07 April 1857; 10 May 1856; 1856; 18 April 1857; 20 May 1857; 25 April 1857; 08 December 1857; 27 December 1856; 12 June 1857; 28 March 1857; 29 March 1857; 25 January 1857; July 1847; 28 November 1858; 21 February 1858; January 9, 1858; December 11, 1857; October 2, 1857; September 12, 1857; 20 December 1856; 05 December 1857; December 26, 1857; January 1, 1858; July 26, 1858; October 26, 1856; October 11, 1857; 30 August 1857; November 2, 1858; January 6, 1858; August 26, 1856; September 16, 1857; 29 December 1857; 07 November 1858; 15 July 1857; 18 December 1857; 20 August 1858; 17 December 1857; 27 January 1858; 20 March 1857; July, August, September, 1849; 26 April 1857; 08 August 1857; November 8, 1858; 26 September 1857; 24 October 1857; 27 July 1857; 26 July 1857; 19 July 1857; 10 August 1857; 25 October 1857; 06 April 1857; 13 June 1857; 11 May 1857; 27 September 1858; 1852; 08 February 1857; 16 March 1859; 28 August 1856; 23 September 1858; 19 November 1858; 29 January 1859; 3 January 1856; 29 August 1856; 31 December 1858; 24 October 1860; 19 April 1858; 4 December 1858; 27 December 1857; 6 December 1857; 17 January 1858; 24 April 1858; 27 December 1858; 25 August 1856; 26 August 1856; 17 January 1857; 11 April 1848; 18 April 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White pine abounds in the northern part, and white and red oak on the coast.

Roger Williams, First Settler of Rhode Island.

Both of these monuments are of white marble.

Along the White River, the St.

The name of William B.

This list of one week's

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; 16 May 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Sub-marine excavator: William Kennish Brooklyn, N.Y., assignor to Andrew B. Gray, San Diego, Cal.

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