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(New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1: 246–280, noted that the notebook contains lines and phrases
On the second page Whitman added, in a combination of normal and blue pencil, the number 43 (1/2).
With the addition of a new first line ("1. Who is now reading this?")
(No. 1), under the section heading Autumn Scenes and Sights.
1[1865 or before], war and hospital notes and memorandaloc.06100xxx.00974?
1-2Miscellaneous notes or remindersloc.05312xxx.00496Allude to the Suez1869-1871prosepoetry1 leafhandwritten
50-51uva.00195xxx.00240American Laws1857-1859poetryhandwritten3 leavesleaf 1 19.5 x 12.5 cm, leaves 2
or earlier (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
(No. 1), under the section heading Autumn Scenes and Sights.
the 1850s (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
manuscript (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
(See Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984] 1:388-397
This poem became section 21 of Calamus in 1860; the lines on the first manuscript page became verses 1-
drivers" (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
about 1889poetryhandwritten1 leaf21 x 27.5 cm; Signed draft of a poem with a variation in line 1 from
on Past and Present, which was published in the Brooklyn Standard between June 3, 1861 and November 1,
phrases contained in this manuscript were included in the thirteenth installment, which appeared on March 1,
This series was published in the Brooklyn Standard between June 3, 1861 and November 1, 1862.
I Get Around, see Floyd Stovall, ed., Prose Works 1892 (New York: New York University Press, 1963), 1:
p. 341 [Long I was held]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf16 x 10 cm; This manuscript became section 1
Whitman numbered this page 1 in pencil.
(Tennyson had responded to Whitman's A Word About Tennyson, published in the Critic on January 1, 1887
1889poetryhandwritten1 leaf13.5 x 18.5 cm; A proof with three emendations and a notation by Horace Traubel: "See notes 1/
of Grass in 1860, with the manuscript leaves corresponding to the published version as follows: leaf 1
to numbered verse paragraphs 1 (now beginning "O bitter sprig!
The example for hexameter (at the bottom of leaf 1 recto) is taken from a line in Homer.
published in an 1846 issue of the American Whig Review (Translators of Homer American Whig Review 4, no. 1
Grier (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1:355–356. dithyrambic trochee
1"Drift Sands"loc.04183xxx.00410Drift Sands.about 1888prosepoetrycorrespondence1 leafhandwritten; Draft
1"Drift Sands"loc.05999xxx.00410Drift Sandsabout 1888prosepoetry1 leafhandwritten; Two draft lines, with
1"Drift Sands"loc.04240xxx.00410Drift Sandsabout 1888prosepoetry1 leafhandwritten; This manuscript of
lcl.00003xxx.00792811 WAL/1/2Erastus HaskellErastus Haskell1878prosehandwritten1 leaf; A draft of the
(No. 1), under the section heading A Fine Winter Day on the Beach.
draft of Whitman's early poem The Play-Ground, which was published in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on June 1,
(No. 1), under the heading Spring Overtures.
Whitman also numbered each leaf in the lower-left corner in pencil: the leaves follow the order 1-9,
9 1/2 (a full page despite its number), and 10-15.
1[1865 or before], war and hospital notes and memorandaloc.01552xxx.00502For Note1863-1875prose2 leaveshandwritten
13.5 cm; Originally numbered 86 and revised by overwriting to 87; Whitman also numbered the leaves 1-
5 (in pencil, lower left corner), with the 1 replacing a 6 and the 2 written over what looks like a 7
(New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1:226–243, noted that the notebook contains lines and phrases
or 1850s (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
the 1850s (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
1[1865 or before], war and hospital notes and memorandaloc.01559xxx.00387[He Went Out With the Tide]1885
in poetry (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
50-51uva.00314xxx.00066[Hours continuing long]1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 9.5 x 9 cm; leaf
Whitman removed the lower section of page 2 from the top of current leaf 1:3:33 ("I dreamed in a dream
The first page contains what would become verses 1-3 in 1860, and the second ("Hours discouraged, distracted
manuscript (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
early in 1855 (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
early in 1855 (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
Song of Myself (Pages 1-23)About 1855prosehandwritten1 leaf; This is a prose manuscript with an unknown
The excised top portion of the leaf became the bottom section of page 2 of 1:3:11, the poem (eighth in
(No. 1.) before appearing in Specimen Days, as part of the section titled New Themes Entered Upon.
Grier, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1:128
It became section 20 of Calamus in 1860; the lines on the first manuscript page correspond to verses 1-
that "the small writing suggests a date in the 1850s" (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1:
1[Before 1882], "The Tramp and Strike Questions"loc.05180xxx.00526The idea of reconciliationBetween 1854
tax form (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
Written in ink on letterhead from the Attorney General's Office, where Whitman was first employed on July 1,