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

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

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

partial draft of the poem eventually known as A Broadway Pageant, first published in the June 27, 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

A.MS. draft.loc.00037xxx.00053[Yet completion were lacking if]between 1850-1860poetryhandwritten1 leaf26.5

[Yet completion were lacking if]

The contents of this manuscript were used in Complete Prose (1892), under the title Written Impromptu

Though parts of Our Wounded and Sick Soldiers were partially reprinted in the New York Weekly Graphic

26tex.00055xxx.00708Write a drunken song…Write A Drunken Songprobably between 1860 and 1875poetry1 leafhandwritten

Grass, in addition to a few images and phrasings that Whitman used in the second (1856) and third (1860

A brief passage on surface 12 possibly contributed to the poem first published in 1860 as the fourth

Two passages on surface 21 were used in the tenth poem of the 1855 Leaves of Grass, later titled There

Two of the draft lines of poetry on surface 31 were used in the untitled third poem of the Debris cluster

in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.

was written in August 1865, with the poetic lines likely composed slightly earlier (likely the early 1860s

The second and third scraps were revised and contributed to Distant Sounds.

Both of these prose pieces first appeared in Specimen Days & Collect (1882–1883), and were included in

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

Portions of this manuscript were also used in Autobiographic Note.

published as part of Poem of Salutation in Leaves of Grass (1856), then as part of Salut au Monde in the 1860

–1861, 1867, and 1871–1872 editions of Leaves; these lines were later extracted and published as a separate

This manuscript was likely written in the mid-1860s and was never published. [While the schools]

This manuscript contributed to American's Bulk Average, which first appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891

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

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

The lines were probably drafted for the Centennial of 1876. What the word of power unbroken

The first several lines of Pictures (not including this line) were revised and published as My Picture-Gallery

in The American in October 1880.

This manuscript may relate to the poem titled A Song of Joys, which first appeared in the 1860 Leaves

(1860, p. 259).

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

in his essay Slang in America, which was first published in the November 1885 issue of The North American

of an article written in response to an unidentified author who had apparently found fault with American

.; yal.00452 were paid for with steamships

1872prose6 leaveshandwritten; This manuscript touches on the developing "distinctive metropolitan American

Character" of Washington, including the city's status as a literary center.

Portions of this manuscript were used in Washington as a Central Winter Residence and Authors of Washington

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

This became section 17 of Chants Democratic in the 1860 Leaves of Grass, with leaf 1 corresponding to

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

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

Apollo Summer Garden," which Whitman wrote about in a New York Leader column of 19 April 1862 entitled City

images 84 and 86) contain notes that constitute a draft of a portion of the seventh installment of the City

Surfaces 67 and 69 (images 66 and 68) are early drafts of The City Dead-House, a poem that first appeared

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

," 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,

1859poetryhandwritten2 leaves21 x 13 cm; This poem became section 21 of the cluster Leaves of Grass in the 1860

145ucb.00075xxx.00964Exposition Building—New City Hall—River Trip[visit to Exposition building &c &c]

1879–1882prose4 leaveshandwritten; A draft of Exposition Building—New City Hall—River Trip, first published

preparations for the printing of November Boughs, Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were

apparently based on a photograph of Whitman possibly taken by the photographer, William Kurtz, in the 1860s

tractsBetween 1854 and 1860prosehandwritten2 leaves; The first manuscript leaf is written on the back of a City

Fredson Bowers, have generally assumed that Whitman used the Williamsburgh tax forms from 1857 to 1860

The city of Williamsburgh was incorporated with Brooklyn effective January 1855, so the forms would have

been obsolete after that date (Whitman's Manuscripts: Leaves of Grass [1860] [Chicago: University of

difficult to date conclusively, but it was almost certainly written after 1854 and probably before 1860

The leaves correspond to various numbered sections of the 1860 published version.

revised, partial draft of A Memorandum at a Venture, first published in the June 1882 issue of North American

tramp & strike questionsabout 1882prose1 leafhandwritten; This page of notes about the problems of American

The lines were written while Whitman was reading The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman, for he has noted

Lines from this manuscript were published posthumously as [Glad the Jaunts for the Known].

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

In the 1860 Leaves of Grass Whitman divided the poems again, publishing them in reverse order under the

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

share common ideas expressed throughout Leaves of Grass, especially in many of the new poems to the 1860

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

in its entirety, the seventh line was used in the poem To My Soul, which was first published in the 1860

In 1860 it formed part of the Messenger Leaves cluster under the same title.