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Typical American Canoes at the Annual Meet in Peconic Bay

  • Date: After August 16, 1890; August 16, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
Text:

Typical American Canoes at the Annual Meet in Peconic Bay

The Poet Laureate as Philosopher and Peer

  • Date: After February 1, 1884; 1884
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Henry Stevens Salt | Ernest Radford
Text:

Would to heaven that it were so!

As he himself says:— "If these brief lays, of sorrow born, Were taken to be such as closed Grave doubts

and answers here proposed, Then these were such as men might scorn."

Children's Hospital" passionately asserting that she could not serve in the wards unless Christianity were

crouch whom the rest bade aspire. ****** Shakespeare was of us, Milton was for us, Burns, Shelley, were

Mrs. Siddons as Lady Macbeth

  • Date: After February 1, 1878; February 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | George Joseph Bell
Text:

cases requires skill more or less mechanical, which technical skill is often called 'art' as if there were

They were made in 1809, or about that time, and are contained in three volumes, lettered 'Siddons,' which

Exalted prophetic tone, as if the whole future were present to her soul.

UPPOSE an English Prime Minister were to persuade himself and a large section of the public that the

every circumstance of cruelty and indignity which could add bitterness to death; and suppose a bill were

Prophecy that soon the Atlantic

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; 24 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

influence has been more perceptible since the close of the Eastern war, by which quite a number of them were

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:

were even then the remains of an ancient city."

The population were in a state of terror and despair, and hopes were expressed and reports whispered,

Formerly, these were reluctant to mingle with the American population, but this state of things is rapidly

They were met by the Americans under General Jackson, 6000 strong.

—Over one-half of the population are Americans, of British descent.

Annotations Text:

At one time this scrapbook likely contained numerous additional manuscript pages that were later removed

This list of one week's

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

one week's issue of patents from the National Patent office at Washington illustrates America and American

—(Remember the show at the Crystal Palace, and the American Institute Fairs.)

Gallegher, Alleghany City, Pa. Needles for sewing: Benjamin Garvey, New York, N. Y.

He dates the origin of mankind

  • Date: Undated; Unknown; 22 April 1857; 13 February 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
Text:

Population of the World. Mr. C. F. W.

Deitterich, a statistician and director of the Statistical Department of Berlin, estimating the population

American Institute Farmers Club

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; 22 April 1857; 18 April 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

American Institute Farmers Club April 21, '57 Origin and unchangeable nature of Plants and Animals. —

also contends that there is no upward progression into another of any species—that all are as they were

The North American Indian, as he was found here by our ancestors, was a carnivorous animal, as untamable

Yet when we suppose the age was faultless, or that all were actuated by pure and patriotic motives, or

American Institute Farmers Club

Fourier and His Ideas.

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; 7 April 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
Text:

Because they were implanted in us by God for this and no other purpose; 2d.

enter respectively into marital relations with new partners, then we say that his views on this point were

Oliver Goldsmith

  • Date: Around 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

See Stovall, "Notes on Whitman's Reading," American Literature 26 (November 1954), 348.

Annotations Text:

See Stovall, "Notes on Whitman's Reading," American Literature 26 (November 1954), 348.; Transcribed

Wednesday Evening, June 10

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; 31 May 1856; 10 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
Text:

While those on one side were thus passing down in line to the stern, those on the other, having faced

about, were passing up toward the bow, drawing their poles floating on the water.

They were the most athletic, restless, and reckless set of men the country ever produced.

In their habits, the keel-boatmen were lawless in the extreme, and would set the civil authorities at

Had their numbers increased with the population of the West, they would have endangered the peace of

Settlers and Indian Battles

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; 22 March 1856; 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown | Henry David Thoreau
Text:

I think posterity will doubt if such things ever were; if our bold ancestors who settled this land were

They were vapors, fever and ague of the unsettled woods.

Imagination and Fact

  • Date: 1852 or later; January 1852; Unknown
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | ["W.D."] | Anonymous
Text:

The false and the phantasmal have ever been considered the necessary complements, as it were, of our

They heard gods in winds and in fire—and altars to these were among the earliest raised.

The forests were sacred to the universal Pan—his fauns, sylvans and satyrs; every oak had its hamadryad

The Swiss peasants were successful, and are held in honorable remembrance forever.

We have a thousand proofs that they were rude, bad, ignorant times.

Annotations Text:

Grass points out that this is a revised reprint of an article by the same title published by the American

A Sermon Preached in the Central Reformed Protestant Dutch Church

  • Date: After July 27, 1851; 1851
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Jacob Brodhead
Text:

In 1660, the population was one hundred and thirty- four souls: in 1698 it had increased to five hundred

During this period, and for a long time afterwards, almost all the inhabitants of Brooklyn were Dutch

In that year, a number of emigrants, chiefly Walloons, were sent out from Holland to Manhattan, under

Francis Bright, who came out in 1629, were the first regularly ordained ministers in Massachusetts.

All around were then open cultivated fields with farm houses.

Modern English Poets

  • Date: After December 1, 1851; December 1851
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
Text:

other European power, seated upon what must one day have been the easternmost projection of the American

Both shrouded as it were from the world, and dedicated to the service of Apollo almost from their very

Her first attempts at verse were given to the Athenaeum without any signature, or indeed even initial

word, and call Browningesque; for we question if, till Miss Barrett wrote, so singular a position were

Robert Chambers

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; 1850
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Ludwig Herrig | Robert Chambers
Text:

With Wales, it contains fifty-two counties, or thirty-seven millions of acres, and a population of about

legislative system till 1800, contains thirty-two counties, or twenty millions of acres, and a population

at a more rapid pace than any other part of the civilised world, some of the states of the North American

Barbadoes, Trinidad, and the other West India colonies, are less populous, the full amount being in each

In Ireland, the population is divided into seven hundred and fifty-two thousand persons in connexion

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

  • Date: After 1849; 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Henry David Thoreau | Unknown
Text:

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

Robert Southey

  • Date: After 1847; February 1851; September 25, 1847
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
Text:

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.

Annotations Text:

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.

Early Roman History

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; April 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
Text:

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.

The History of Long Island

  • Date: After 1842; 1843
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Benjamin F. Thompson
Text:

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

A Defence of the Christian Doctrines of the Society of Friends

  • Date: After 1838; 1825
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
Text:

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.

Report of the Special Committee

  • Date: After March 26, 1849; 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Thomas P. Teale
Text:

how it should be administered, and who were qualified and who not.

, and why they were so willing to give the price required for it.

they could go, and when they were wanted again they would be sent for.

This news was not long in reaching the American Legislative Assembly who were then in session in Westchester

This valuable property, of right belongs to the city of Brooklyn.

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

  • Date: After 1849; 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Henry David Thoreau
Text:

His lays were heard in the pauses of the fight.

to blow through the long corridor of the canal, which is here cut straight through the woods, and were

When we reached the Concord, we were forced to row once more in good earnest, with neither wind nor current

Niembsch Lenau

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

actual life, Schiller the ideal Goethe mixes both actual and ideal Niebelungen Lied—scene much in the city

Dates referring to China

  • Date: Around June 23, 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The Americans are in very good repute in China—the English and French very bad.— June 23d '57 Talk with

Canton, and all through the country: A religious building : There would be here and there in the cities

—Away in the interior is Pekin, the great city, the "Chinaman's heaven."

Brutish human beings

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

June '57) describes to me a very low kind of human beings he saw in one of the Ladrone islands—they were

They were two in number. About three feet high; weighed between 47 and 50 pounds.

Some contradict it, and say they were raised in this country."

incline to the opinion that they are real Borneoans. * *What difference does it make whether they were

The Fair Pilot of Loch Uribol

  • Date: After 1872; July to December, 1872
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Robert Buchanan
Text:

neighbouring mountains, hoisted the inverted red flag to the foremast as a signal that the parties on board were

Immortality was realized

  • Date: After 1854
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—Personal qualities were accepted and obeyed:— as (When are they not accepted and obeyed?

composition expression— —but the men and women other nation other empires and states, other mighty and populous

cities, contemporary was with them in other parts of the world, or ages antecedent of them, perhaps

another in methods fit for answering to what was needed.— These other nations unknown empires and cities

Neibelungen-leid

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

.— Grier estimates that this was written between 1856 and 1860 (Walt Whitman: Notebooks and Unpublished

Annotations Text:

Grier estimates that this was written between 1856 and 1860 (Walt Whitman: Notebooks and Unpublished

Tacitus—of the Germans

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

See "Notes on Whitman's Reading," American Literature 26 (November 1954), 355.

Annotations Text:

See "Notes on Whitman's Reading," American Literature 26 (November 1954), 355.; Transcribed from digital

Elias Hicks Contemporaries

  • Date: After 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
Text:

.1809 1847 39 Lincoln.............1809 1865 56 Cumming ..........1810 1870 60 Parker, Theo ......1810 1860

Of all the western stars

  • Date: After December 1885; December 8, 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Alfred Lord Tennyson | Unknown
Text:

Webb, President of the Free College of the City of New York, and from Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Rev. Wm.

Æschuylus

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

Dating this piece is difficult; Grier estimates that the notes were written after 1873 (Walt Whitman:

Annotations Text:

Dating this piece is difficult; Grier estimates that the notes were written after 1873 (Walt Whitman:

The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires

  • Date: 1890 or later; 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | C.F. Volney
Text:

city into a solitude of mourning and of ruins!

Notwithstanding this, the Turks were beaten by the Russians, and the man who then predicted the fall

We were slaves, we might command; but we only wish to be free, and liberty is but justice. 79 Mollas,

they were committed by those men, who, descending from their cages, thus indemnified themselves for

the Fortunate Islands, the abode of eternal spring; and beyond were the hyperborean regions, placed

Whitman's pre-Leaves of Grass Marginalia on British Writers

  • Creator(s): Kenneth M. Price
Text:

[Walt Whitman], "An English and an American Poet," American Phrenological Journal , 90-91.

models and politics that were all awry: "Of the leading British poets many who began with the rights

"Thoughts on Reading, " American Whig Review 1 (1845), 485. Figure 2.

"Taylor's Eve of the Conquest," , American Edition, 89 (1849), 186. Figure 4.

He was certain that poetry must reach the people and on (what he thought were) their terms.

Whitman and World Cultures

  • Creator(s): Caterina Bernardini
Text:

For Whitman, these disciplines, and his own interest in and dedication to them, were often conflated:

"There were busy, populous, and powerful nations, on all the continents of the earth, at intervals [.

Through the stretch of time [. . .] there were busy, populous, and powerful nations."

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995. Camboni, Marina. Il corpo dell'America: 1855 .

"Whitman and American Empire."

Walt Whitman's Reading: A Bibliographical Handlist

  • Date: 1921; 1906–1996; 1959
Text:

from Persian mysticism to nineteenth-century phrenological journals, the influences on Whitman's work were

English Writers Philadelphia Grigg and Elliot's 1841 1862-1888 New York City Volume now held in Library

loc.03428 Underlines and manicules The Vanity and the Glory of Literature The Edinburgh Review, American

These accompany Whitman's notes on ancient European and Asian populations.

History of the American Revolution Berrian, William An Historical Sketch of Trinity Church, N.Y.

Introduction to Whitman's Annotations and Marginalia

  • Creator(s): Matt Cohen
Text:

poetry, Whitman famously depicts himself as a "rough," whose poetry is an organic expression of the American

Images obtained from our library partners were scanned at 600dpi in tif format.

Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time.

American Literature 22 (March 1950): 29-53. Frey, Ellen Frances.

Walt Whitman and the American Reader. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Esp. 73-78.

Whitman Reads New York

  • Creator(s): Kevin McMullen
Text:

Written on the back of tax forms from the City of Williamsburgh, the manuscripts were likely, at one

of ships, my city."

my city!" And its fifth and final usage in 1860 comes in the volume's concluding poem, "So long!"

on earth to lead my city, the city of young men, the Mannahatta city—But when the Mannahatta leads all

the cities of the earth."

The Slavonians and Eastern Europe

  • Date: August 1849 or later; August 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
Text:

The Slavonians and Eastern Europe. 283 and adds the interesting fact, that they were in a good state

Specimens of wood found there were in an excellent state of preservation.

Even they, however, were doomed at last to foreign invasion.

, seeds that were but revived by the German Luther?

Even in her worst days, were her serfs more degraded beings than those of Russia now?

Christopher under Canvass

  • Date: June 1849 or after; June 1849
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | [John Wilson?]
Text:

Would that Lord Bacon were here! And thus we are led to a deeper truth.

History, without doubt, as Lord Bacon says—it borrows thence its mould, not rigorously, but with exceeding

Lessing's Laocoön

  • Date: After January 1, 1851; January 1851
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | J.D.W.
Text:

the arrow ; and these moments are all so closely connected, and yet so distinct one from another, were

uncorrupted frame, Such as the heavens produce; and round the gold Two brazen rings of work divine were

Th' embroidered sandals on his feet were tied; The starry falchion glitter'd at his side; And last his

That the writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were ignorant of the true principles of

In the correspondence between Goethe and Schiller, of which there is a translated American edition, we

Goethe—from about 1750

  • Date: Undated; circa 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
Text:

"The Sorrows of Werter Werther " seems to us a wondrously trashy production, and, were it appearing now

, principle, or geniality, although with considerable power of simulating sympathy with all three, were

He passes with the general crowd upon whom the American glance descends with certain blending of curiosity

The Social Contract

  • Date: After 1837
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Text:

—Thus reasoned the Emperor Caligula, according to Philon, proving plausibly enough that the kings were

—Aristotle had said, before them all, that men are not equal by nature, but that some were born for slavery

undeveloped is, in not realizing that the individual , man or woman is the head and ideal, and the State, City

Edmund Spenser: born about 1553—died 1599.

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

.— Even at the time of writing them, Spenser's words, in his poems, were many of them unusual, obsolete

delivers the king & queen, marries the daughter.— Grier estimates that this was written in 1859 or 1860

Annotations Text:

Grier estimates that this was written in 1859 or 1860.

Our own account of this poem, "the German Iliad"

  • Date: 1854 or later
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Then said the lady Brunhilde, "Nay, The King, your brother, is most noble—If none were living but you

Dryden 1631 to 1701

  • Date: Undated; 1853
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Charles Knight
Text:

The great characteristics of Franklin were perseverance, temperance, and common sense.

Spinal idea of a Lesson

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

Spinal idea of a "Lesson" Founding a new American Religion (?

Chronological

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

era," (the birth of Christ.) about the year 536 Moses of course was born in Egypt, while the Jews were

The pasted-on manuscript scraps were originally part of the notebook "women," which probably dates from

about 1854 to about 1860.

Both manuscript scraps were probably written shortly before or early in 1855, though the notes on the

continuation of the text on the reverse of both paste-ons with the notebook leaves from which they were

Annotations Text:

The pasted-on manuscript scraps were originally part of the notebook "women," which probably dates from

about 1854 to about 1860.

Both manuscript scraps were probably written shortly before or early in 1855, though the notes on the

may have been written at a later date.; The notes written on the pasted-on parts of this manuscript were

continuation of the text on the reverse of both paste-ons with the notebook leaves from which they were

Generalities

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; unknown
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown
Text:

Gorilla—those reports and notices related of the much dreaded, ape-like animal of the African wilds, that were

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