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Documents Related to the 1855 Leaves of Grass: Copyright Materials

  • Creator(s): Nicole Gray
Text:

One Williams College copy has a blank copyright page; two other copies, now at the University of Virginia

White notes by way of context that "the scrapbook was used by Whitman to keep clippings from newspapers

In research for a short article describing the discovery, William White determined that the document

White also identified the "Mr.

White, William. "More About the 'Publication' of the First American Literature 28.4 (1957): 516–17.

"Black and White Slaves."

  • Date: 2 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

"Black and White Slaves." "Black and White Slaves."

texts show that he had little tolerance for abolitionism, that he thought blacks were inferior to whites

The lithograph to which Whitman refers was actually entitled "Black and White Slavery," and was created

by a Northern slavery apologist named Edward Williams Clay.

It compares Britain's "white slaves" (factory workers) to America's black slaves in an effort to show

Annotations Text:

texts show that he had little tolerance for abolitionism, that he thought blacks were inferior to whites

Vintage Books, 1996), 125–127.; The lithograph to which Whitman refers was actually entitled "Black and White

It compares Britain's "white slaves" (factory workers) to America's black slaves in an effort to show

Street Yarn

  • Date: 16 August 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Rusty black costume; white choker; look oddly compounded of severity, superiority, curiosity, apprehension

Dirty finery, excessively plentiful; paint, both red and white; draggle-tailed dress, ill-fitting; coarse

Nicholas Hotel was built in 1853 to rival the luxurious Astor Place with its white marble facade and

A well-built, portly old man, full, ruddy face, abundant wavy—almost frizzly—white hair, good forehead

It is the firm of William C.

Annotations Text:

Nicholas Hotel was built in 1853 to rival the luxurious Astor Place with its white marble facade and

Documents Related to the 1855 Leaves of Grass: Binding Records

  • Creator(s): Nicole Gray
Text:

Information about bindings has been supplemented by a transcription and explanation of this statement in White

White, 353. Whitman varied in his reports of how many copies were printed.

White, William. "The First (1855) 'Leaves of Grass': How Many Copies?"

One Wicked Impulse! A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

  • Date: September 8, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The first, titled "The White Dove.—( A Hymn for Children )," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

Annotations Text:

The first, titled "The White Dove.—(A Hymn for Children)," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

The first, titled "The White Dove.—(A Hymn for Children)," is attributed to Fredrika Bremer.

[We have read with attention]

  • Date: 1 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (London: Verso, 2002

William Leete Stone (1793–1844) was described in an 1856 biographical sketch as "the editor and one of

In Whitman's written appeal to the minds of all men (where "all men" refers to native-born white males

Annotations Text:

Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (London: Verso, 2002

In Whitman's written appeal to the minds of all men (where "all men" refers to native-born white males

Old Land Marks

  • Date: 18 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

This "constitution" allowed suffrage for all white (domestic and naturalized) males over twenty-one.

until 1843 that there was a new official state constitution that dropped the property requirement for white

The liberal party sided with Thomas Dorr, who advocated for suffrage for all white males (see previous

Annotations Text:

This "constitution" allowed suffrage for all white (domestic and naturalized) males over twenty-one.

until 1843 that there was a new official state constitution that dropped the property requirement for white

no.1 (1955), 24–50.; The liberal party sided with Thomas Dorr, who advocated for suffrage for all white

Waterworks editorials in the Brooklyn Daily Times

  • Date: 2024
  • Creator(s): Stephanie M. Blalock | Kevin McMullen | Stefan Schöberlein | Jason Stacy
Text:

William White's 1969 bibliography of Whitman's journalism largely replicates this decision.

Reconstructing Whitman's Desk at the Brooklyn Daily Times Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2015 33 1 21–50 White

, William Walt Whitman's Journalism: A Bibliography Detroit, MI Wayne State University Press 1969 Written

A Peep at the Israelites

  • Date: 28 March 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

A white silken mantle, somewhat like a scarf, was worn by every person; it encircled the neck, falling

The silk scarf that Whitman is referring to is a tallit, a white garment that is shawl-like and is worn

platform which made part of this structure, there was another figure standing, half shrouded in a white

Scott" and "Shakespeare's Shylock" are both Jewish characters in works from Sir Walter Scott and William

Similarly, Shylock is a character from the William Shakespeare play, The Merchant of Venice .

Annotations Text:

.; The silk scarf that Whitman is referring to is a tallit, a white garment that is shawl-like and is

Washington

  • Date: 12 March 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The "President's closing Levee" was the open inaugural reception at the White House, held the evening

5000 guests, including Frederick Douglass, who had initially been barred by guards from entering the White

Never before was such a compact jam in front of the White House, all the grounds filled, and away out

As the President came out on the capitol portico, a curious little white cloud, the only one in that

Annotations Text:

.; The "President's closing Levee" was the open inaugural reception at the White House, held the evening

5000 guests, including Frederick Douglass, who had initially been barred by guards from entering the White

The 1855 Leaves of Grass: A Bibliography of Copies

Text:

William F.

William E.

William Michael Rossetti W. B.

William F. Channing William D. O'Connor Ellen M.

William B.

Prohibition of Colored Persons

  • Date: 6 May 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Oregon prohibits colored persons, either slave or free, from entering the State—making an exclusively white

The great obstacle to Southern progress and enterprise is well-known to be the fact that White Labor

It would be altogether a contest with reference to the interest of the masses of the Whites, and would

Who believe that the Whites and Blacks can ever amalgamate in America? Or who wishes it to happen?

Besides, is not America for the Whites? And is it not better so?

Tammany Meeting Last Night

  • Date: 6 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

William C. Gover, The Tammany Hall Democracy of the City of New York [New York: Martin B.

White and Company, 1895], 4: 37). addressed the assemblage, and spurred them on to do their best in the

The Era , edited at this time by Parke Godwin (the son-in-law of poet and editor William Cullen Bryant

Annotations Text:

White and Company, 1895], 4: 37).; John Hughes (1797–1864) was a Catholic, Irish-born bishop and later

Good for Governor Walker!

  • Date: 6 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the Jury-box, vote in all elections, meet us in social intercourse, and intermarry freely with the whites

The doctrine of the perfect equality of the white with the black in all respects whatsoever, social and

The Free State theory is that the West is the white man's land—the land for free independent farmers,

such a State government as will result in large plantations, full of African slaves, crowding out the white

farmer, white emigrant, and white poor family.

White labor, versus Black labor

  • Date: 25 May 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White labor, versus Black labor White labor, versus Black labor.

whether it be submitted to the inhabitants of that territory for their fiat, the great cause of American White

indeed formed upon the wishes of the people, no doubt or shadow of doubt clouds the prospects of the White

Newspaperial Etiquette

  • Date: 18 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White, 1840], 753). themselves on their "influence."

Government Printing Office, 1884], 90; William Huntzicker, Popular Press, 1833–1865 [Westport, CT: Greenwood

Annotations Text:

White, 1840], 753).; Whitman's sarcastic comment is poking fun at the self-perceived influence of New

Reconciliation.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

again, this soil'd world; For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead, I look where he lies white-faced

and still in the coffin—I draw near, Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the

Reconciliation.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

again, this soil'd world; For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead, I look where he lies white-faced

and still in the coffin—I draw near, Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the

Reconciliation

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

again, this soil'd world: …For my enemy is dead—a man divine as myself is dead; I look where he lies, white-faced

and still, in the coffin—I draw near; I bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the

The Late Riots

  • Date: 15 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

One of his loyal followers was William Ford, also known as Bill.

White, 1839], 427). attracted, probably, by the expectation of seeing "fun."

Annotations Text:

White, 1839], 427).; The Sixth Ward, also called "Five Points," was a poor, predominantly Irish, neighborhood

Reconciliation.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

again, this soil'd world: …For my enemy is dead—a man divine as myself is dead; I look where he lies, white-faced

and still, in the coffin —I draw near; I bend down, and touch lightly with my lips the white face in

The Celebration

  • Date: 28 April 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Water Department—Birkenbein, White, Moore, Barond, City Comptroller, J. N. Dutton.

Williams. Health Officer, Arthur Hughes. NEW HAVEN—Aldermen—H. S.

White, Ald. Huntley, and ex-Ald. Bannon acting as vice-chairmen.

Marion Hose Company No. 1—William H. Lawrence Foreman with a full company numbering 30.

White, whose own fair proportions distracted by no means from those of his noble team.

Patroling Barnegat.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

piercing and pealing, Waves, air, midnight, their savagest trinity lashing, Out in the shadows there milk-white

wending, Steadily, slowly, through hoarse roar never remitting, Along the midnight edge by those milk-white

Patroling Barnegat.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

piercing and pealing, Waves, air, midnight, their savagest trinity lashing, Out in the shadows there milk-white

wending, Steadily, slowly, through hoarse roar never remitting, Along the midnight edge by those milk-white

"Marble Time" in the Park.

  • Date: 4 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

See: John Boag, Popular and Complete English Dictionary (London: William Collins, 1848), 903. twice the

White, 1839], 532). to the north. What troops of children, large and small, appear on every side!

Annotations Text:

White, 1839], 532).; "fen scrapins" was perhaps a slang term used during the game of "Ring Taw."

Public School Training

  • Date: 5 November 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Whiting for the exclusion from the list of studies prescribed for our public schools of such branches

Whiting’s resolution that they are, the poor—for whom mainly the schools are designed—reap no benefit

Whiting’s resolution will not be summarily ignored—but that it will provoke at least discussion and inquiry

Old Ireland.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

grave an ancient sorrowful mother, Once a queen, now lean and tatter'd seated on the ground, Her old white

cold ground with fore- head forehead between your knees, O you need not sit there veil'd in your old white

Old Ireland.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

grave an ancient sorrowful mother, Once a queen, now lean and tatter'd seated on the ground, Her old white

cold ground with fore- head forehead between your knees, O you need not sit there veil'd in your old white

The Mask thrown off

  • Date: 7 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White, 1839], 732). from Austrian monasteries—be permitted thus to dictate what Tammany Tammany, fully

From Scene II, Act III of William Shakespeare's Macbeth .

Annotations Text:

White, 1839], 732).; Tammany, fully known as Tammany Hall, was the political machine of the Democratic

Claims of Partisans

  • Date: 22 April 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

featured many sensationalized stories that were discredited, The Sun persisted in some form until 1950 (William

, Light and Shadows of Irish Life (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1838), 141; "Patrick," William

according to the belief of these sage, grave men, The phrase "sage, grave men" comes from a line in William

originally worked to elect Jeffersonian Republicans and to extend the right to vote to non-property owning white

Annotations Text:

originally worked to elect Jeffersonian Republicans and to extend the right to vote to non-property owning white

Old Ireland.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

grave, an ancient sorrowful mother, Once a queen—now lean and tatter'd, seated on the ground, Her old white

on the cold ground, with forehead between your knees; O you need not sit there, veil'd in your old white

Old Ireland

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

grave, an ancient sorrowful mother, Once a queen—now lean and tatter'd, seated on the ground, Her old white

on the cold ground, with forehead between your knees; O you need not sit there, veil'd in your old white

Defining "Our Position"

  • Date: 30 March 1842
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White, 1839]).

White, 1839]). This piece is unsigned.

Annotations Text:

White, 1839]).

White, 1839]).; Our transcription is based on a digital image of an original issue.

Leaves of Grass, "There Was a Child Went Forth Every"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morningglories, and white and

sunset . . . . the river between, Shadows . . aureola and mist . . light falling on roofs and gables of white

There Was a Child Went Forth.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

at sunset— the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, the light falling on roofs and gables of white

Leaves of Grass 1

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

sun- set sunset —the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, light falling on roofs and gables of white

There Was a Child Went Forth.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass and white and red morning-glories, and white and

at sunset, the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, the light falling on roofs and gables of white

Leaves of Grass 9

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

afar at sunset— the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, light falling on roofs and gables of white

There Was a Child Went Forth.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass and white and red morning-glories, and white and

at sunset, the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, the light falling on roofs and gables of white

Central American Affairs

  • Date: 2 December 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In Panama, the writer states, the ordinary relative positions of whites and blacks are reversed.

and most of the principal authorities of the place are black, and they mete out less justice to a white

Political parties in Panama and indeed in the whole State are divided into the whites and blacks, and

Literary Notices

  • Date: 10 August 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

As full and fine scenery and properties are to the acting of Macready William Charles Macready (1793–

of which the Pictorial England is among the neatest......No. 6 opens with the drowning of Prince William

Prince William Adelin (1103–1120), only legitimate son of King Henry I, Duke of Normandy, drowned in

the White Ship tragedy (November 25th, 1120) trying to save his half–sister. and his sister Matilda

(1103–1120), Countess of Perche, illegitimate daughter of King Henry I and half–sister to Prince William

Annotations Text:

William Adelin (1103–1120), only legitimate son of King Henry I, Duke of Normandy, drowned in the White

An Old Landmark Gone

  • Date: 9 October 1862
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

British General William Howe defeated American General George Washington.

In time, it too gave place, and was also torn down, to make room for the present white marble church

William Hartshorne, William Hartshorne was a printer and mentor to Walt Whitman.

In Cabin'd Ships at Sea.

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

waves—In such, Or some lone bark, buoy'd on the dense marine, Where, joyous, full of faith, spreading white

spread your white sails, my little bark, athwart the imperious waves!

In Cabin'd Ships at Sea.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

imperious waves, Or some lone bark buoy'd on the dense marine, Where joyous full of faith, spreading white

spread your white sails my little bark athwart the imperious waves, Chant on, sail on, bear o'er the

In Cabin'd Ships at Sea.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

imperious waves, Or some lone bark buoy'd on the dense marine, Where joyous full of faith, spreading white

spread your white sails my little bark athwart the imperious waves, Chant on, sail on, bear o'er the

Scantlings. White

Text:

White

Poem of the Child That Went Forth, and Always Goes Forth, Forever and Forever

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

sun- set sunset , the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, light falling on roofs and gables of white

Leaves of Grass, "Sauntering the Pavement or Riding the Country"

  • Date: 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

unearthly cry, Its veins down the neck distend . . . . its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites

Off the word I have spoken I except not one . . . . red white or black, all are deific, In each house

soiree, I heard what the run of poets were saying so long, Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white

She sits in an armchair under the shaded porch of the farmhouse, The sun just shines on her old white

Faces

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the unearthly cry, Its veins down the neck distend, its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites

Off the word I have spoken I except not one—red, white, black, are all deific; In each house is the ovum—it

Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white froth and the water-blue. Behold a woman!

She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farm-house, The sun just shines on her old white

Faces.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the unearthly cry, Its veins down the neck distend, its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites

Off the word I have spoken I except not one—red, white, black, are all deific, In each house is the ovum

soiree, I heard what the singers were singing so long, Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white

She sits in an armchair under the shaded porch of the farmhouse, The sun just shines on her old white

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