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

A.MS. draft.loc.00037xxx.00053[Yet completion were lacking if]between 1850-1860poetryhandwritten1 leaf26.5

[Yet completion were lacking if]

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

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).

.; yal.00452 were paid for with steamships

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

/ If nothing lay more developed the quahaug and its callous shell were enough. / Mine is no callous shell

Both poems were first published in the 1855 first edition of Leaves of Grass.; duk.00883 To be at all

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

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

These lines were removed from the final versioen of the poem.

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

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

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

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

1860prosehandwritten20 leaves; References to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 indicate that parts of this manuscript were

characteristic Whitman fashion, from fragments large and small, with several discontinuities" which were

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

On the back of this leaf (tul.00002) are draft lines that were used in the third poem in the first (1855

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

manuscript in which Whitman discusses false meanings being applied to words, "as the term calling the American

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

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

combination of "Love" and "Dilation or Pride" is also articulated in Chants Democratic (No. 4) in the 1860

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

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

Although Whitman never published any of these notes in his lifetime, they were used, in some cases word

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

.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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

to Walt Whitman in 1860–1861.

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.

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