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After further revision Whitman published these verses in the October 30, 1880 issue of The American under

blank, the manuscript appears to be a set of notes he made between 1857 and 1859 while preparing the 1860

Whitman's Pictures were not published in their entirety until 1925.

149uva.00292xxx.00112xxx.00085A City WalkAbout 1855poetryhandwritten1 leaf4.5 x 12 cm; A faint horizontal

line beneath part of "A City Walk," along with the words' capitalization and central position on the

18 in his Blue Book revisions of the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.

This title was changed in the Blue Book to City of orgies, walks and joys and finally became City of

The poem was retitled Crossing Brooklyn Ferry in 1860. A City Walk

If it was the 1860 edition, as his style of inscription here appears to indicate, it is possible that

this leaf could represent an early stage of the poem that would eventually become City of Orgies, 1867

in the 1860 edition.

These were further revised for the 1856 Poem of Many in One, after which the first verse drafted on this

The two verses below this, however, were preserved relatively unchanged through the poem's many transformations

in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.. A plate mark can be clearly seen on the verso.

to the (eventual) second verse paragraph in section 6 of Starting from Paumanok, first published in 1860

Lines from the manuscript were included in the first poem in that edition, eventually titled Song of

and structure, the manuscript most closely resembles lines 39–43 in Debris, a poem published in the 1860

revision and expansion to have eventually formed part of section 21 of the cluster Calamus in the 1860

Lines similar to the last several in this manuscript were also reworked in the notebook Talbot Wilson

in the upper right corner, perhaps indicating that Whitman was considering a title similar to the 1860

before the poem was first published in 1855, unless this is in fact a reworking of the section for the 1860

the first-person perspective in these draft lines, Emory Holloway has speculated that they likely were

The first several lines of Pictures (not including this line) were eventually revised and published as

My Picture-Gallery in The American in October 1880.

manuscript notes may also date to that period, although the draft lines on the reverse of the leaf, which were

The notes were revised and incorporated into the first poem in that edition, eventually titled Song of

relationship with the lines on another manuscript in the University of Virginia collection, which were

revised to form part of section 14 of Chants Democratic in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, a set

American air I have breathed

.00045Merely What I tell isBetween 1850 and 1860poetryhandwritten1 leaf4 x 15 cm; These manuscript lines were

resemblance to ideas expressed in the opening lines of poem #14 of Chants Democratic and Native American

, which first appeared in the 1860 Leaves of Grass.

and 1860poetryhandwritten1 leaf8 x 15.5 cm; This manuscript was probably written between 1850 and 1860

The lines are similar in subject to lines in the poem To One Shortly To Die, first published in the 1860

Fragmentary lines written on the back of this manuscript leaf (uva.00561) were used in the poem eventually

(uva.00278) are similar in idea to lines in the poem To One Shortly To Die, first published in the 1860

The lines were used in the first poem in that edition, eventually titled Song of Myself.

and 1860poetryhandwritten1 leaf4 x 14.5 cm; This manuscript was probably written between 1850 and 1860

The lines were used in the poem To One Shortly to Die, first published in the 1860 edition of Leaves

for A Girl or A Boy of These States, which became the sixth poem in Chants Democratic and Native American

in 1860.

Inscribed and extensively revised in pencil, these verses were part of a larger set of lines before Whitman

transcriptions of other early manuscripts, Edward Grier speculates that Whitman wrote this before 1860

Based on the handwriting, Edward Grier dates it before 1860 (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts

uva.00294xxx.00720Poem of Names"Studies of Womanhood," [ca. 1850–1860]Between 1850 and 1860prosehandwritten1

The name and address, however, were added later, likely in 1881, when Whitman visited Boston several

Although Whitman also visited Boston in 1860, John Soule's photography studio did not move to 338 Washington

The first several lines of draft were revised and published as My Picture-Gallery in The American in

The first several lines of Pictures (not including these lines) were eventually revised and published

as My Picture-Gallery in The American in October 1880.

.; yal.00452 were paid for with steamships

Based on the handwriting, Edward Grier dates the top scrap to the 1860s and the bottom scrap to the 1850s

manuscripts, this manuscript may also relate to lines 39-43 in Debris, a cluster published in the 1860

and confound them, / You shall see me showing a scarlet tomato, and a white pebble from the beach" (1860

It seems he also considered giving that title to the cluster of poems in the 1860 edition that was eventually

and limitless floods," was used, slightly revised, in A Song of Joys, which first appeared in the 1860

This manuscript was probably written between 1850 and 1860. Free cider

Several phrases of the prose on the verso were probably later used, in somewhat revised form, in the

: "The best I had done seemed to me blank and suspicious, / My great thoughts, as I supposed them, were

First published as Calamus. 13 in Leaves of Grass (1860), this poem appeared in later editions of Leaves

The last two phrases of this manuscript were used in the Poem of Joys, first published in the 1860 edition

to the belief that no "detail of the army or navy [. . .] can long elude the [. . .] instinct of American

resembles that of the early editions of Leaves of Grass, so it likely that it was written in the 1850s or 1860s

The first several lines of Pictures (not including this line) were revised and published as My Picture-Gallery

in The American in October 1880.

This manuscript may relate to the poem titled A Song of Joys, which first appeared in the 1860 Leaves

(1860, p. 259).

On the reverse are lines that were possibly also written as part of the process for the creation of that

possibility that Whitman drafted this manuscript in the early 1850s, as he was composing the poems that were

the source of Bucke's transcription have not been found and there is no evidence that the sentences were

Gibson, an American adventurer (Walt Whitman, Selected Poems, 1855–1892, ed.

Martin's Griffin, 1999], 488; Walt Whitman and the Class Struggle [Iowa City: University of Iowa Press

Vaults, a poem that is recorded in a New York notebook (loc.00348) that probably dates to the early 1860s

leafhandwritten; Several words from this manuscript ("loveroot," "silkthread," "crotch," and "vine") were

1993), Elisa New attributes the manuscript to "the period when the first drafts of Leaves of Grass were

The first several lines of that poem were revised and published as My Picture-Gallery in The American

published as part of Poem of Salutation in Leaves of Grass (1856), then as part of Salut au Monde in the 1860

–1861, 1867, and 1871–1872 editions of Leaves; these lines were later extracted and published as a separate