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

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

—I know if it were the main matter, as under the name of pray Religion the original and main matter.

See Emory Holloway, ed., The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, New York: Doubleday

See Emory Holloway, ed., The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, New York: Doubleday

connections are more conclusive than others, but it is clear that at least some of the ideas and images here were

See Emory Holloway, ed., The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, New York: Doubleday

These comments were revised and published in A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads,, the essay that Whitman

1870poetry1 leafhandwritten; Fragment of approximately forty words, in which the poet writes that if he "were

Whatever I say of myself, you shall apply to yourself If you do not, it is were time lost listening to

eventually titled "Song of Myself": "All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own, / Else it were

81. were paid for with a steamship s or , or would come cheap.— I am not stuck up for these reasons;

Additional poetic lines are drafted on the back of this manuscript leaf. were paid for with steamships

Walt Whitman's Caution, a poem first appearing as one of the Messenger Leaves in Leaves of Grass (1860

A N American bard at last!

The interior American republic shall also be declared free and independent.

But where in American literature is the first show of America?

Where is the vehement growth of our cities?

Walt Whitman was born on Long-Island, on the hills about thirty miles from the greatest American city

indelibly fix it and publish it, not for a model but an illustration, for the present and future of American

letters and American young men, for the south the same as the north, and for the Pacific and Mississippi

Of pure American breed, of reckless health, his body perfect, free from taint from top to toe, free forever

cruise with fishers in a fishing smack—or with a band of laughers and roughs in the streets of the city

Both manuscript drafts were probably originally continuous with manuscript drafts on another leaf, from

Both manuscript drafts were probably originally continuous with manuscript drafts on another leaf, from

.; Both manuscript drafts were probably originally continuous with manuscript drafts on another leaf,

contains a list of trial titles, probably for the poem first published as Calamus 15 in Leaves of Grass (1860

[To What You Said] bears a strong relationship to the Calamus poems that were composed between 1857-1860

some corrections, of the poem eventually titled To Foreign Lands, first published in Leaves of Grass (1860

Draft, with many corrections, of To Him That Was Crucified, a poem first published in Leaves of Grass (1860

I think if there were nothing more developed, the clam in its callous shell in the sand, were august

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

Are the American aborigines and the neg a z Z ambo or a foreheadless c C rowfoot or Comanche Camanche

It became "Burial Poem" in 1856, "Burial" in 1860 and 1867, and took its final title, "To Think of Time

, of the first poem in the cluster titled Thoughts when it was first published in Leaves of Grass (1860

of the seventh poem in the cluster titled Thoughts when it was first published in Leaves of Grass (1860

despair went through his side from him , when he saw that the black dressed mourners who stood nearest were

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.; On the

—These truths lie at the are the foundation of American politics: Whitman probably drafted this manuscript

consistent with the free spirit of this age, and with the American truths of politics?

On the verso is a fragment of an apparent letter, which Edwin Haviland Miller dates August 1860, to Thayer

These lines were removed from the final version of the poem.; On the back of this manuscript is a poetry

However, those portions of the manuscript have not been found and there is no evidence that they were

However, those portions of the manuscript have not been found and there is no evidence that they were

—Do you suppose because the American government has been formed, and public schools established, we have

—The prisoners were allowed no light at night.— No physicians were allowed provided.— Sophocles, Eschylus

—Great as their remains are, they were transcended by other works that have not come down to us.

Virtue and about Vice These pages were written by Whitman in the early to mid-1850s.

The lines at the end of this manuscript were also reworked and used for a different section of the same

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

The lines at the end of this manuscript were also reworked and used for a different section of the same

and vaccination, gunpow der and spinning-jennies; but are our people half as peaceable and happy as were

or clusters of poems, including "The States," "Prairies," "Prairie Spaces," "Prairie Babes," and "American

the late 1850s, it's possible that this last title is related to the Chants Democratic and Native American

cluster in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.

; He complains with sarcastic voice of my lagging I feel apt to clip it, and go; I am W W— — the American

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

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

, which appeared in the poem that eventually would be titled "Song of Myself": "Walt Whitman, an American

The reference to the "Russian serf" was dropped from the poem after the 1860 edition. Russian serfs

or allusion to them whatever, except as they relate to the new, present things—to our country—to American

Whitman reworked some of those ideas on ornament and they appear in the poem "Says" in the 1860 edition

Whitman reworked some of those ideas on ornament and they appear in the poem "Says" in the 1860 edition

. ix).; Whitman reworked some of those ideas on ornament and they appear in the poem "Says" in the 1860

for ornaments nothing outre can be allowed, / And that anything is most beautiful without ornament" (1860

. ***** They were the glory of the race of rangers, Matchless with a horse, a rifle, a song, a supper

if our colors were struck and the fighting done?

Only three guns were in use.

That he was an American, we knew before, for, aside from America, there is no quarter of the universe

he was one of the roughs was also tolerably plain; but that he was a kosmos, is a piece of news we were

repute, and might, on that account, obtain access to respectable people, unless its real character were

impossible to imagine how any man's fancy could have conceived such a mass of stupid filth, unless he were

before introducing us to his poetry, to enlighten our benighted minds as to the true function of the American

The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature.

peace is the routine out of him speaks the spirit of peace, large, rich, thrifty, building vast and populous

statistics as far back as the records reach is in you this hour—and myths and tales the same; If you were

backtop, The faces of hunters and fishers, bulged at the brows …the shaved blanched faces of orthodox citi

The book, perhaps, might be called, American Life, from a Poetical Loafer's Point of View .

Remembrances I plant American ground with, for you young men Lessons to think, I diffuse scatter in the

Written on the back of this leaf is a list of rivers, lakes, and cities that may have contributed to

Remembrances I plant American ground

.; Written on the back of this leaf is a list of rivers, lakes, and cities that may have contributed

On the reverse is a partial draft of the 1860 poem Calamus 9, which was dropped from subsequent editions

clipped-out segment of leaf002v, which continues onto the page that remains here, includes lines that were

Myself and Mine": "Let others praise eminent men and hold up peace—I hold up agitation and conflict" (1860

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

and the neighbor must fetch out a cup and go half halves; for both loved tea, and had no money, and were

Selections and subjects from this notebook were used in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, including

Selections and subjects from this notebook were used in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, including

seemed the sterile & stingy nature, as if too much handiwork or too much lymph in the temperament were

I rubbed my eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book is

Leaves, ultimately titled "Song of Myself," and part of a cluster titled "Debris" that appeared in the 1860

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

Leaves, ultimately titled "Song of Myself," and part of a cluster titled "Debris" that appeared in the 1860

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

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

The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature.

The largeness of nature or the nation were monstrous without a corresponding largeness and generosity

—As if it were necessary to trot back generation after generation to the eastern records!

The American poets are to enclose old and new for America is the race of races.

For such the expression of the American poet is to be transcendant and new.

rowing—the greatest persons come—the president comes and the governors come—political economy —the American

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

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

and the use of the 1855 wrapper paper, this note was likely written sometime between late 1855 and 1860

revised in ink, about the 1833 Leonid meteor shower, likely related to the poem Year of Meteors. (1859–1860

29Poem of Sadnessabout 1860poetry1 leafhandwritten; Manuscript note probably recording the idea for the 1860

The published version of Mediums, originally Chants Democratic No. 16 in the 1860–1861 edition of Leaves

Starting from Paumanok was published first in the 1860–1861 edition of Leaves of Grass as Proto-Leaf.

loosely to ideas expressed in the poem "A Song of Joys," first published as "Poem of Joys" in the 1860

the Crossing the Fulton ferry to-day, I met an old acquaintance, to-day whom I had missed from the city

took hold of some scheme or claim before upon the legislature, and lobbied for it;—he helped men who were

: "If I and you and the worlds and all beneath or upon their surfacees, and all the palpable life, were

What w W hat can may you conceive of or propound name to me in the future, that were a greater miracle

Lines from the notebook were used in "Song of Myself," a version of which was published in the 1855 Leaves

the fourth poem in the 1855 Leaves; and "A Song of Joys," which appeared as "Poem of Joys" in the 1860

nature" that Whitman reworked and used in the poem To a President, first published in Leaves of Grass (1860

Phrases and ideas from this manuscript were incorporated in the poem Unnamed Lands, first published in

the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.

and the phrase about "the buckwheat" from this manuscript appear in the poem as well, although they were

and the phrase about "the buckwheat" from this manuscript appear in the poem as well, although they were

Father," which was first published in Drum-Taps in 1865: "Smell you the buckwheat, where the bees were

27O Earth, My Likeness (1860).

1860poetryhandwritten1 leaf20.5 x 16 cm; A draft of the poem first published as Calamus, No. 36 in 1860