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Hudson's 'Thoughts on Reading,' American Whig Review, 1 (May 1845), 483–496, which he clipped and annotated
" (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:95).
the 1850s (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
.— 1* The constitution covenants that the free states shall give up runaway servants—that we all know
Grier, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1:209
1854–1855" (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
before 1855" (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
that "the small writing suggests a date in the 1850s" (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1:
announces that after the 1st of January next, his publication will be issued monthly in quarto form, at $1
growing value of property in lower Manhattan, Trinity sold the park to the Hudson River Railroad for $1
Those concerned may be classed as: 1. Those who left the city.
( The Knickerbocker, or New York Monthly Magazine , 37 [January 1851], 70–1). they gradually scatter
Louis is about 38 1-2 deg. and San Francisco 37 1-2 north latitude.
Maud, Sec. ii., St. 1. "Do you suspect death? If I were to suspect death, I should die now.
Miller, Jr.) have included as the last stanza of Kentucky (see image 1).
1856 Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia PS3201 1856, copy 1
Leaves of Grass Page 1.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 LEAVES OF GRASS. 1
exaltations, They come to me days and nights and go from me again, But they are not the Me myself. 1*
to 7, indicating their degrees of development, 1 meaning very small, 2 small, 3 moderate, 4 average,
. ∗ The organs are marked by figures from 1 to 7, indicating their degrees of development, 1 meaning
Poem of Walt Whitman, an American. 1 — Poem of Walt Whitman, an American.
exaltations, They come to me days and nights and go from me again, But they are not the Me myself. 1*
disembarcation, the founding of a new city, The voyage of those who sought a New England and found it, The Year 1
Weather-beaten vessels, landings, settlements, the rapid stature and muscle, The haughty defiance of the Year 1—