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27EuropeBetween 1850 and 1856prosepoetry1 leafhandwritten; A list of European rivers, lakes, and cities

, many of which were included in Poem of Salutation in the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass.

In the 1860 edition of Leaves, and in all subsequent editions, the poem was titled Salut Au Monde!

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).

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.

Literature1850s or 1860sprosehandwritten1 leaf; Whitman's heading indicates that these brief notes were

oratory and goal of becoming a lecturer in the 1850s, though he also maintained these interests in the 1860s

June 9, 1863: "I think something of commencing a series of lectures & readings &c. through different cities

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

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

The poem was first titled Poem of Walt Whitman, an American in the 1856 edition, and Whitman shortened

the title to Walt Whitman in 1860–1861.

and by, above, and My tongue can never be content with harness, below, make a connection with the 1860

In the 1860–1861 edition the phrase also appears in the poem To a Cantatrice (eventually titled To a

War, and was frequently used by Whitman (see Clarence Gohdes, Whitman and the 'Good Old Cause,' American

Edward Grier notes that this manuscript likely was written prior to 1860 (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose

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

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

in 1860.

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

1Untitled and UnidentifiedUndated, on the American Idiomloc.05619xxx.00047his poem of theBetween 1850

The poem originally appeared as the first poem in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, titled Proto-leaf

In the 1856 edition it was titled Poem of Walt Whitman, an American, and Whitman shortened the title

to Walt Whitman in 1860–1861.

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

The pasted-on manuscript scraps were originally part of the notebook "women" (loc.05589), 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

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

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

duk.00029xxx.00048xxx.00121MS q 27Remembrances I plant American groundBetween 1850 and 1855poetry1 leafhandwritten

On the reverse (duk.00884) is a list of rivers, lakes, and cities that likely contributed to Poem of

Salutation in the 1856 edition of Leaves.; duk.00884 Remembrances I plant American ground

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

is written with the hanging indentation characteristic of Whitman's poetry, it is unclear if these were

contributed to this piece of journalism or not, it seems likely that it was composed in the 1850s or 1860s

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.

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

" (tex.00200) two sets of manuscript notes about Egypt that Edward Grier dates to between 1855 and 1860

Both manuscripts were probably written shortly before or early in 1855, though the notes on the backing

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

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.

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.

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

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

leafhandwritten; Draft, with a few corrections, of Tests, a poem published first in Leaves of Grass (1860

One of the lines was included in the 1860 Poem of Joys, which was later entitled A Song of Joys.

poems about "the passion of Woman-Love," along with a few trial lines, all apparently related to the 1860

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

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

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

Ontario's Shore, was retained through subsequent editions of Leaves, although the line was dropped after 1860

The highly bred Irishman, and the educated American seem to me the pinks of travellers.

by some statistician that there are eleven millions of Advertisements published annually in the American

The first charge was never made against the American people before—and will not be relied on by any body

, is, that men have placed a blind faith in one another , and in institutions that, results prove, were

NEW AMERICAN AUTHORESS.—Mrs. Emma D. M.

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

The note is possibly related to the poem Recorders Ages Hence, first published in Leaves of Grass (1860

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

surfaceAbout the 1850s or 1860spoetry1 leafhandwritten; This manuscript, probably written in the 1850s or 1860s

fragment containing phrases that later became part of the poem Unnamed Lands, first published in the 1860

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

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

includes ideas and phrases that resemble those used in Unnamed Lands, a poem published first in the 1860

Whitman reworked some of those ideas on ornament and they appeared in the poem Says in the 1860–1861

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

Since, as Fredson Bowers points out in his introduction to Whitman's Manuscripts: "Leaves of Grass" (1860