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Hildreth vol 1 page 42, The plot described in this notebook corresponds to Whitman's novel Life and Adventures
relationship with 'A Song for Occupations' and 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry'" ( Notebooks and Unpublished Prose , 1:
Edward Grier, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1:
Watch Quartier Au Loete Swisse No. 51,575 1 3 0 00 50 A Ap 14 " 17 19 2 5 37 80 75 25 M Ju " s to 2n
Is picture enough nder Feb Ma 77 Jun Jul 79 -1 D 81 Amount rec'd received from Mr. V. A.
Edward Grier, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1:
lines, as well as the "generic or cosmic or transcendental 'I'" that appears in Leaves of Grass (Grier, 1:
notebook (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
"How spied the captain and sailors") describes the wreck of the ship San Francisco in January 1854 (1:
notebook that rearranges the ordering in an attempt to capture Whitman's intended textual flow, see Grier, 1:
Clerke's Rudiments & Practice 1 vol.
Ruggles 24 East Warren Wilson 4 Greene near Cumberlan 1 door This notebook contains several dated entries
feet muffled. orders that men should tread light & only speak in whispers— Then between 12 midnight & 1
diarrhea father Ranson Northrop Webster, Monroe co N.Y. some brandy ward A bed 41 Pleasant Borley co A 1
Grier, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1:128
.— 1* The constitution covenants that the free states shall give up runaway servants—that we all know
Grier, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1:209
See Grier, 1:141.
See Grier, (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1:144.
Edward Grier, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1: