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

Some pieces which were pasted together have been lifted and photographed separately to show lines obscured

The poems were apparently never further developed and were never published.

Based on this date it can be speculated that the notes were written late in 1875 (a possibility corroborated

by the list of names), but the poem(s) may have been inscribed in the late 1860s or earlier.

seem to meabout 1860poetryhandwritten1 leaf13 cm x 11.5 cm; This manuscript is a draft of lines that were

published in Chants Democratic, number 13, in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.

however, the lines on this manuscript are a draft of the section of the poem that was deleted after the 1860

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

Walt Whitman's law] in the composition process, correspond, like [Of Biography], to section 13 of the 1860

version of the poem Chants Democratic and Native American which was revised and permanently retitled

These lines were eventually revised to form section 13 of the 1860 version of the poem Chants Democratic

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.

Premonition was published as the introductory poem to the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass under the title

verso of leaf 15 and part of leaf 16 appears a draft of what would become section 11 of Calamus in the 1860

1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf16 x 10 cm; After being incorporated as the first main section of Enfans d'Adam in 1860

1859poetryhandwritten3 leavesall leaves 21 x 13 cm; Originally numbered 84, this poem appeared in the 1860

of Grass as main section 7 of Enfans d'Adam, and was retitled within the group We Two—How Long We Were

cm, leaf 2 11 x 16 cm; This poem, numbered 82 in pencil, became main section 8 of Enfans d'Adam in 1860

50-51uva.00183xxx.00005xxx.00047xxx.00062[Once I passed through a populous]I am the child of Democracy1857

16 cm; The recto verses appearing on this manuscript became the main section 9 of Enfans d'Adam in 1860

and were retitled Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City in 1867.

[Once I passed through a populous]

This poem was revised to form main section 10 of Enfans d'Adam in 1860, and in 1867 was given two new

was held]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf16 x 10 cm; This manuscript became section 1 of Calamus in 1860

The five verses beginning "Was it I who walked the / earth..." were not used in Calamus, but the five

beginning "Scented herbage of my breast" became the opening verses of section 2 of the cluster in the 1860

1859poetryprosehandwritten5 leaves20 x 16 cm; The verses on the recto became lines 6-40 of section 2 of Calamus in the 1860

The pages were folded and pinned together to form a small pamphlet.

The lines on page 1 became verses 1-8 of section 4 of Calamus. in 1860; page 2 ("Solitary, smelling the

The lines on the first leaf became verses 1-9 of section 7 of Calamus in 1860, and the second leaf's

The lines on the first leaf became verses 1-5 of section 8 of Calamus in 1860; the second leaf's lines

There were no further appearances of this poem during the poet's lifetime, Whitman having canceled it

in his Blue Book Copy of the 1860 Leaves.

numbers) in the lower-left corner of each page; his partly erased pencil note "(finished in/ the other city

removed the lower section of page 2 from the top of current leaf 1:3:33 ("I dreamed in a dream of a/ city

This poem, the eighth in the sequence Live Oak, with Moss, became section 9 of Calamus in 1860.

The first page contains what would become verses 1-3 in 1860, and the second ("Hours discouraged, distracted

The seventh poem in the sequence Live Oak, with Moss, became section 10 of Calamus in 1860 and was permanently

The lines on the first page correspond to verses 1-3 of the 1860 version, and those on the second page

of Live Oak, with Moss (with ornamental Roman numeral), this poem became section 11 of Calamus in 1860

The lines on the first page correspond to verses 1-5 of the 1860 version, and those on the second page

This poem, featuring a new first line, became section 12 of Calamus in 1860; in 1867 Whitman dropped

The first page contains verses corresponding to lines 2-3 of the 1860 version, and the lines on the second

After adding several verses, Whitman designated this poem section 13 of Calamus in the 1860 Leaves, and

, after dropping the first two and last three lines of the 1860 version, permanently retitled it Roots

The first section of the original sequence Live Oak, with Moss, this became section 14 of Calamus in 1860

12 cm; Written on a light blue Williamsburgh tax blank, this poem became section 15 of Calamus in 1860

the poem became section 16 of Calamus in 1860; the lines on the first draft page correspond to verses

of the poem during Whitman's lifetime: he rejected it from his Blue Book Copy of Leaves of Grass in 1860

It became number 17 of the Calamus cluster in 1860, with the lines on the first leaf corresponding to

pasted over some lines in the top-left corner of the larger piece, from the top of which other lines were

The verses became section 18 of Calamus in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass; the poem was permanently

titled City of Orgies in 1867.

City of my walks and joys

The group first appeared in print in the 1860 Leaves of Grass with this poem as section 1.

On the reverse of the leaf (uva.00023) are verses that became section 18 of Calamus in the 1860 edition

of Leaves of Grass; the poem was permanently titled City of Orgies in 1867.

It became section 20 of Calamus in 1860; the lines on the first manuscript page correspond to verses

This poem became section 21 of Calamus in 1860; the lines on the first manuscript page became verses

It was numbered section 22 of Calamus in 1860: the lines on the first page correspond to verses 1-6 of

the 1860 version, and those on the second ("You give me the pleasure") to verses 7-10.

original sequence Live Oak, with Moss (with ornamental Roman numeral), it became section 23 of Calamus in 1860

In 1860 Whitman designated it section 25 of Calamus, transforming the title into a new first line and

this became section 27 of Calamus in 1860.

the new first line "A promise and gift to California,") this poem became section 30 of Calamus in 1860

In 1860 it became the second numbered verse paragraph of section 31 of Calamus.

In 1867 Whitman split up the two paragraphs and made them separate poems; these verses were moved to

In 1860 the first set, with the addition of a new first line ("Here my last words, and the most baffling

The second set was revised to form section 38 of Calamus in 1860; in 1867 it was further revised and

With substantial additions and revisions this evolved into section 37 of Calamus in 1860; after further

14.5 x 9.5 cm), in brown-black ink, with revisions in lighter ink (including the deletion, undone in 1860

Moss (with the Roman numeral ornamentally drawn), this was revised to become section 36 of Calamus in 1860

In 1860 this poem was substantially revised to form section 34 of Calamus; in 1867 it was retitled I

Both sections are in black ink but, as Bowers notes, the lower verses were inscribed using a darker,

section of the sequence Live Oak, with Moss, this poem was revised to form section 32 of Calamus in 1860

This poem became section 39 of Calamus in 1860; in 1867 Whitman replaced the third line with a new one

original sequence Live Oak, with Moss (with ornamental Roman numeral), it became section 42 of Calamus in 1860

This was revised to form section 41 of Calamus in 1860 and was permanently retitled Among the Multitude

numeral), this was reformatted and renumbered but otherwise left unrevised as section 43 of Calamus in 1860

This was revised to become section 40 of Calamus in 1860; in 1867 it was retitled That Shadow, My Likeness

years old the/ eighty-first year of The States" indicate that Whitman composed the poem in 1857; these were

revised to read "I, forty years old the Eighty-third Year of The States" in the 1860 Leaves, in which