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

The 1860–61 edition of Leaves of Grass introduced two new poems created in this way: Poem of Many in

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

manuscriptAmerican Poets1850–1891prosehandwritten; A partial draft of Old Poets, first published in North American

American Poets

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

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

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

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

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

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

in 1860.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

manuscript also resemble lines 39–43 in the untitled fourteenth poem of the Debris cluster of the 1860

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

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

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

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

" (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

similar manuscripts that are numbered sequentially and probably date from around or before 1855: see "American

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

The notes are similar to many of Whitman's other jottings about family in the 1850s and 1860s.

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

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

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

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

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

ultimately titled A Song for Occupations, and part of a cluster titled Debris that appeared in the 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

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

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

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

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

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

to Walt Whitman in 1860–1861.

duk.00162xxx.00048MS q 203It were unworthy a live man to prayBefore or early in 1855poetryprose1 leafhandwritten

These lines were present in the first version of the poem in 1855, suggesting a date of before or early

It were unworthy a live man to pray

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

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.

1Undated, on the American idiomloc.05211xxx.00952List of serviceable1850-1856prose1 leafhandwritten;

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

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