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the claims of the genre Culturists]undatedprosehandwritten1 leaf; One leaf with notes about how American

At the bottom is a longer prose note describing Whitman's goals for a large work about the American West

It is possible these lines were composed between 1861 and 1870, when Whitman had most reason to employ

After all, Not to Create Only, written for the opening of the fortieth Annual Exhibition of the American

Sheets from the pamphlet were included in some copies of the 1871 Leaves of Grass.

11tex.00003xxx.00501[Americans are charged with disproportionate brag and]1819-1872poetryprose1 leafhandwritten

[Americans are charged with disproportionate brag and]

Grier, the handwriting in the first and third paragraphs is that of the 1850s or 1860s; that of the second

night," perhaps related to the poem eventally titled Night on the Prairies, first published in the 1860

duk.00268xxx.00621MS q 29Poem [There can be no greatest]1860 or beforepoetryprose1 leafhandwritten; Notes

The Cruise]1860 or beforepoetryprose1 leafhandwritten; Scrap with what are apparently two trial versions

," possibly related to With Antecedents, which was first published in the New-York Saturday Press (1860

The poem was revised as Chants Democratic. 7 in Leaves of Grass (1860–1861) and took its final title,

suggests that "this sort of moralizing . . . belongs to [Whitman's] journalizing of the 1840s through the 1860s

Both poems were first published in Drum-Taps in 1865.

Lines from the notebook were used in Song of Myself and A Song of the Rolling Earth, which appeared in

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

It is unclear whether Whitman was simply paraphrasing Hunter's translation, or whether both stories were

The text Whitman quotes comes from the Westminster Review, American Edition, LI, (July 1849): 187 (see

Stovall, Notes on Whitman's Reading, American Literature 26, no. 3, [November 1954]: 361).

writers (see Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 5:1860

The text Whitman quotes comes from the Westminster Review, American Edition, LI, (July 1849): 186 (see

Stovall, Notes on Whitman's Reading, American Literature 26, no. 3, [November 1954]: 361).

probably related to lines on the same topic in A Song of Joys, first published as Poem of Joys in the 1860

approximately four lines, written and revised in ink, that may be related to the poem Year of Meteors. (1859–1860

Some of the terms in the list at the bottom of the scrap were added to the poem eventually titled "A

added, but two of the terms that are struck through on this manuscrpit ("saltmaking" and "arsenal") were

early in 1855poetryprose1 leafhandwritten; This draft fragment includes phrases and poetic lines that were

As if it were anything to analyze fluids and call certain parts oxygen or hydrogen, or to map out stars

The various dates referenced suggest that the earliest portions of it were written sometime after 1845

earliest date for the writing on the verso is likely March 1853, when the two Cumberland Street houses were

nyp.00511xxx.00048[I can tell of the long besieged city]I can tell of the long besieged city1845–1855prosepoetry1

leafhandwritten; A scrap of paper with poetic lines that were used in revised form in the 1855 edition

The lines contained in this manuscript were eventually used in the poem ultimately titled Song of Myself

[I can tell of the long besieged city]

ideas in this manuscript came from an article entitled Thoughts on Reading that appeared in the American

Whig Review in May 1845 (Notes on Whitman's Reading, American Literature 26.3 [November 1954]: 352).

American literature must become distinct

1860prosehandwritten1 leaf; Edward Grier suggests that this manuscript was probably written prior to 1860

sentiment between it and the initial line of No. 4 of the Thoughts cluster published first in the 1860

similar manuscripts that are numbered sequentially and probably date from around or before 1855: see "American

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

Whitman marked this line in an article published in an 1846 issue of the American Whig Review (Translators

of Homer American Whig Review 4, no. 1 [July 1846]: 364).

men, "capable of deeds of might, blessings, poems, enlightenment," with the suggestion that these were

.00522Like Earth O RiverLike Earth O River, you offer us burial1848poetry1 leafhandwritten; These lines were

published as The Mississippi at Midnight on March 6, 1848, in the New Orleans Daily Crescent, though they were

Parts of the poem were reworked and first published as section five of Passage to India (1871).

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

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.

149uva.00292xxx.00112xxx.00085A City WalkAbout 1855poetryhandwritten1 leaf4.5 x 12 cm; A faint horizontal

line beneath part of "A City Walk," along with the words' capitalization and central position on the

18 in his Blue Book revisions of the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.

This title was changed in the Blue Book to City of orgies, walks and joys and finally became City of

The poem was retitled Crossing Brooklyn Ferry in 1860. A City Walk

If it was the 1860 edition, as his style of inscription here appears to indicate, it is possible that

this leaf could represent an early stage of the poem that would eventually become City of Orgies, 1867

in the 1860 edition.

These were further revised for the 1856 Poem of Many in One, after which the first verse drafted on this

The two verses below this, however, were preserved relatively unchanged through the poem's many transformations

in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.. A plate mark can be clearly seen on the verso.

to the (eventual) second verse paragraph in section 6 of Starting from Paumanok, first published in 1860

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

and structure, the manuscript most closely resembles lines 39–43 in Debris, a poem published in the 1860

revision and expansion to have eventually formed part of section 21 of the cluster Calamus in the 1860

Lines similar to the last several in this manuscript were also reworked in the notebook Talbot Wilson

in the upper right corner, perhaps indicating that Whitman was considering a title similar to the 1860

before the poem was first published in 1855, unless this is in fact a reworking of the section for the 1860

the first-person perspective in these draft lines, Emory Holloway has speculated that they likely were

The first several lines of Pictures (not including this line) were eventually revised and published as

My Picture-Gallery in The American in October 1880.

manuscript notes may also date to that period, although the draft lines on the reverse of the leaf, which were

The notes were revised and incorporated into the first poem in that edition, eventually titled Song of

relationship with the lines on another manuscript in the University of Virginia collection, which were

revised to form part of section 14 of Chants Democratic in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, a set

American air I have breathed

.00045Merely What I tell isBetween 1850 and 1860poetryhandwritten1 leaf4 x 15 cm; These manuscript lines were

resemblance to ideas expressed in the opening lines of poem #14 of Chants Democratic and Native American

, which first appeared in the 1860 Leaves of Grass.

and 1860poetryhandwritten1 leaf8 x 15.5 cm; This manuscript was probably written between 1850 and 1860

The lines are similar in subject to lines in the poem To One Shortly To Die, first published in the 1860

Fragmentary lines written on the back of this manuscript leaf (uva.00561) were used in the poem eventually

(uva.00278) are similar in idea to lines in the poem To One Shortly To Die, first published in the 1860

The lines were used in the first poem in that edition, eventually titled Song of Myself.

and 1860poetryhandwritten1 leaf4 x 14.5 cm; This manuscript was probably written between 1850 and 1860

The lines were used in the poem To One Shortly to Die, first published in the 1860 edition of Leaves