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The Johns Hopkins University holds one Whitman poetry manuscript (a handwritten version of O Captain!
My Captain!)
In the 1888 November Boughs, however, Whitman reprinted the 1867 version as Small the Theme of my Chant
manuscript draft may have been written before the Civil War, since it does not include the 1867 line "My
revision Whitman published these verses in the October 30, 1880 issue of The American under the title My
My picture gallery
for a set of Whitmans's books: "Dear Sir, I shall be glad to supply you with a set (Two Volumes) of 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
which it underwent various changes in content, title, and position until being joined with Now List to My
50-51uva.00246xxx.00072[Was it I who walked the]Scented Herbage of My Breast1857-1859poetryhandwritten1
who walked the / earth..." were not used in Calamus, but the five lines beginning "Scented herbage of my
Section 2 of the Calamus group was permanently retitled Scented Herbage of my Breast in 1867.
notice, you Kanuck woods") became verses 6-10; and the lines on the half-page ("I am indifferent to my
the first page correspond to verses 1-3 of the 1860 version, and those on the second page ("Publish my
name and hang up/ my picture...") to lines 4-11.
correspond to verses 1-5 of the 1860 version, and those on the second page ("And when I thought how/ my
lines 2-3 of the 1860 version, and the lines on the second page ("Do you suppose you can easily/ be my
50-51uva.00023xxx.00085City of my walks and joyslate 1850spoetryhandwritten1 leaf8.5 x 10 cm pasted to
City of my walks and joys
In 1860 the first set, with the addition of a new first line ("Here my last words, and the most baffling
brown-black ink, with revisions in lighter ink (including the deletion, undone in 1860, of the phrase "My
My Likeness! [Earth]
poem was revised to form section 32 of Calamus in 1860, and in 1867 was retitled What Think You I Take My
This was revised to become section 40 of Calamus in 1860; in 1867 it was retitled That Shadow, My Likeness
50-51uva.00190xxx.00413xxx.00047Thought [Of closing up my songs by these]1857-1859poetryhandwritten2
Thought [Of closing up my songs by these]
Whitman retitled the poem To My Soul when it was first published, in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass
leaf7 x 15.5 cm; This manuscript bears some similarity in subject to the poem that became Who Learns My
149uva.00009xxx.00713[My two theses]about 1856poetryhandwritten1 leaf4 x 16 cm pasted to 10.5 x 16 cm
[My two theses]
both for magazine publication and for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass, where it was published as My
.; uva.00601 My hand will not hurt what
188uva.00260xxx.00264The sores on my shouldersBetween 1850 and 1855poetryhandwritten1 leaf8 x 15 cm;
on the back of this leaf (uva.00565) relate to the manuscript poem Pictures.; uva.00565 The sores on my
188uva.00565xxx.00259Hear my fifeBetween 1850 and 1860poetryhandwritten1 leaf8 x 15 cm; Whitman probably
first several lines of Pictures (not including this line) were eventually revised and published as My
(uva.00260) appeared, in revised form, in the poem eventually titled The Sleepers.; uva.00260 Hear my
South"—which was first published in theMay, 1890 Century and then included in the second annex Good-Bye My
of Grass, named Lesson Poem in 1856 and finally, beginning with 1871's Passage to India, Who Learns My
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
leafhandwritten; This manuscript contains part of an autobiographical sketch on the composition of Good-bye My
reinforce the truthfulness of Pierson's stories about the "koboo," Whitman mentions the fact that Captain
Captain Walter M.
included in any subsequent editions of Leaves of Grass, Whitman did include it in the 1891 volume Good-Bye My
General Philip Henry Sheridan's death (on August 5), and later as Interpolation Sounds in Good-Bye My
Whitman later included this poem in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891). For Queen Victoria's Birthday
Grass (1891–92), lines from this manuscript appear in both One's-Self I Sing and Small the Theme of My
3yal.00006xxx.00139Sea Captains, Young or Oldabout 1873poetry2 leaveshandwritten; This manuscript is
a signed draft of Sea Captains, Young or Old, which was published first in the New York Daily Graphic
Sea Captains, Young or Old
Retitled To the Pending Year, the poem appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy in 1891. To the year 1889
The first several lines of draft were revised and published as My Picture-Gallery in The American in
leafhandwritten; A scrap of Civil War memoranda headed "51st N Y V" in which Whitman mentions the death of Captain
first several lines of Pictures (not including these lines) were eventually revised and published as My
Portions of this manuscript contributed to Some Personal and Old-Age Jottings, Good-Bye My Fancy (1891
152yal.00146xxx.00866Walt Whitman's Last—Good-Bye My Fancy1891prose1 leafhandwritten; A draft of Walt
Walt Whitman's Last—Good-Bye My Fancy
Man's Rejoinder, first published in the Critic 17 (16 August 1890) before being reprinted in Good-Bye My
O'Connor, pub'd posthumously in 1891, which appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), and in William Douglas
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
Portions of this manuscript appeared in Some Personal and Old-Age Jottings, first published in Good-Bye My
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
A.MS. draft and notes.loc.00287xxx.00263[All my emprises]about 1874poetryhandwritten1 leaf; A draft of
[All my emprises]
. / I intend to reach them my hand and make as much of them as I do of men and women" (1855, p. 64).
See in particular the lines: "The supernatural of no account . . . . myself waiting my time to be one