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between rough drafts of poems in this notebook (called An Early Notebook in White's edition) and the 1860

On surface 54 is a passage that seems to have contributed to the 1860 poem that became Song at Sunset

visit to Egypt, two sets of manuscript notes about Egypt that Edward Grier dates to between 1855 and 1860

Black Presence in Whitman's Manuscripts, in Whitman Noir: Black America and the Good Gray Poet (Iowa City

Two entries for "George Fitch" are listed in the New York City directory for 1855–56.

Grier postulates that "the three young men mentioned here were probably itinerant omnibus drivers" (Notebooks

Two entries for "George Fitch" are listed in the New York City directory for 1855–56.

Grier postulates that "the three young men mentioned here were probably itinerant omnibus drivers" (Notebooks

Two entries for "George Fitch" are listed in the New York City directory for 1855–56.

Grier postulates that "the three young men mentioned here were probably itinerant omnibus drivers" (Notebooks

opposite side, as in some very similar notes currently housed at Duke University, point toward the 1860

See Holloway, A Whitman Manuscript, American Mercury 3 (December 1924), 475–480. See also Andrew C.

One passage seems to have contributed to the 1860–1861 poem that Whitman later titled Our Old Feuillage

The first several lines of that poem (not including the line in question) were revised and published

as My Picture-Gallery in The American in October 1880 and then in Leaves of Grass as part of the Autumn

The manuscript is written on the blank side of an 1850s tax form from the City of Williamsburgh.

Fredson Bowers, have generally assumed that Whitman used the Williamsburgh tax forms from 1857 to 1860

The city of Williamsburgh was incorporated with Brooklyn effective January 1855, so the forms would have

been obsolete after that date (Whitman's Manuscripts: Leaves of Grass [1860] [Chicago: University of

At least two of the tax forms Whitman used were dated 1854 (see, for instance, "Vast national tracts"

or amusements or the costumes of young men, can long elude the jealous and passionate instinct of American

Fredson Bowers, have generally assumed that Whitman used the Williamsburgh tax forms from 1857 to 1860

The city of Williamsburgh was incorporated with Brooklyn effective January 1855, so the forms would have

been obsolete after that date (Whitman's Manuscripts: Leaves of Grass [1860] [Chicago: University of

At least two of the tax forms Whitman used were dated 1854 (see, for instance, "Vast national tracts"

on ornament and they appear in the poem, Suggestions, which initially appeared in Leaves of Grass (1860

just as will much here directly at our doors, or the corners of our streets curbstones, or in our City

Hall.— After all is said, however, the work of establishing and raising the character of cities of course

.— All that there is in what The enti What men think enviable, if it were could be collected together

princely youth of Athens—cross-questioning—his big paunch—his bare feet—his subtle tongue— These pages were

These pages were written by Whitman in the early to mid-1850s.

most selfish interests of a few, and The offices great city are not principally created for as to be

—They are part of the organic motion of the city, for the life and health of it from head to foot.— WW

WW After all has been is said, however, it the work of establishing and raising the character of cities

Transcribed from digital images of the original that were posted to Sotheby's website.

.; Transcribed from digital images of the original that were posted to Sotheby's website.; Poetic lines

The notes on American character relate to ideas expressed in "Song of Myself," most directly to the line

True noble expanded American character is raised on a far more lasting and universal basis than that

Every American young man should carry himself with the finished and haughty bearing of the greatest ruler

st an oo d in the presence of my superior.— I could now abase myself if God If the presence of Jah were

God were made visible immediately before me, I could not abase myself.

conveniences — and possessed Every one of these officers should be possessed with the genuine eternal American

—The right sort of men will exemplify them just as well here directly at our doors or in our City Hall

Joel Myerson (New York: Garland, 1993), 2:522-523; Major American Authors on CD-Rom: Walt Whitman (Westport

Joel Myerson (New York: Garland, 1993), 2:522-523; Major American Authors on CD-Rom: Walt Whitman (Westport

.— For the city or state to become the general guardian or overseer and dry nurse of a man, and point

tractsBetween 1854 and 1860prosehandwritten2 leaves; The first manuscript leaf is written on the back of a City

Fredson Bowers, have generally assumed that Whitman used the Williamsburgh tax forms from 1857 to 1860

The city of Williamsburgh was incorporated with Brooklyn effective January 1855, so the forms would have

been obsolete after that date (Whitman's Manuscripts: Leaves of Grass [1860] [Chicago: University of

difficult to date conclusively, but it was almost certainly written after 1854 and probably before 1860

Readers were used to formal portraits of authors, usually in frock coats and ties.

Very often they were posed at reading tables with books spread open before them or holding a thick volume

Grass, in addition to a few images and phrasings that Whitman used in the second (1856) and third (1860

A brief passage on surface 12 possibly contributed to the poem first published in 1860 as the fourth

Two passages on surface 21 were used in the tenth poem of the 1855 Leaves of Grass, later titled There

Two of the draft lines of poetry on surface 31 were used in the untitled third poem of the Debris cluster

in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.