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This manuscript is probably part of an early draft of the preface for that volume.
The first part of this manuscript resembles a line in the fifth poem of that edition, eventually titled
manuscript left unpublished by Whitman, containing ideas potentially connected with the unpublished short story
The first part of this prose fragment also may relate to the following line from the preface to the 1855
duk.00027) is a poetry manuscript containing ideas possibly connected to Whitman's unpublished short story
The January 1844 issue of The Knickerbocker magazine featured a story called Ganguernet: Or, 'A Capital
The story includes a scene with a nearly identical plot to the one described in this portion of Whitman's
It is unclear whether Whitman was simply paraphrasing Hunter's translation, or whether both stories were
According to Edward Grier, this scrap may have been part of a larger manuscript of notes about other
According to Edward Grier, this scrap may have been part of a larger manuscript of notes about other
As if it were anything to analyze fluids and call certain parts oxygen or hydrogen, or to map out stars
At some point, this manuscript formed part of Whitman's cultural geography scrapbook (owu.00090).
One of the names referenced on the verso, "Covert," appears in Whitman's short story "Revenge and Requital
Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:
A note on leaf 27 recto includes the date April 19, 1847, and the year 1847 is listed again as part of
Myself: Walt Whitman and the Making of Leaves of Grass (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010), 2–
and the Composition of Leaves of Grass: The Talbot Wilson Notebook, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 20:2
Earth O River, you offer us burial1848poetry1 leafhandwritten; These lines were probably drafted as part
Parts of the poem were reworked and first published as section five of Passage to India (1871).
This page of notes, numbered "2," describes the journey across Lake Erie; Whitman's visits to Buffalo
.00480MS q 111wooding at nightbetween 1848 and 1887prose2 leaveshandwritten; Manuscript that chronicles part
Daily Eagle in the days leading up to the launch, and the launch itself was reported in an unsigned story
.00112xxx.00085A City WalkAbout 1855poetryhandwritten1 leaf4.5 x 12 cm; A faint horizontal line beneath part
Walks Down This Street;about 1856poetryhandwritten1 leaf7 x 16 cm paster to 4 x 15.5 cm; Both parts of
deleted with a single pencil stroke, appear after revision and expansion to have eventually formed part
The poem was later published in Leaves of Grass as part of the Autumn Rivulets cluster.
leaf7 x 21 cm; The laid paper was originally the last page of a letter; a few illegible words and part
the lines on another manuscript in the University of Virginia collection, which were revised to form part
The lines eventually became part of the independent poem Poets to Come.
book in a conversation with Horace Traubel on December 9, 1889 (With Walt Whitman in Camden, 6:180–2)
brain]about 1855poetryhandwritten1 leaf5 x 16 cm; Draft lines of an incomplete poem, of which other parts
Inscribed and extensively revised in pencil, these verses were part of a larger set of lines before Whitman
The poem was later published in Leaves of Grass as part of the Autumn Rivulets cluster.
It probably relates to the seventh poem in that edition, originally untitled, part of which eventually
The poem was later published in Leaves of Grass as part of the Autumn Rivulets cluster (1881, p. 310)
On the reverse are lines that were possibly also written as part of the process for the creation of that
It was also part of a series of reviews printed separately and included in some copies of the 1855 edition
Other lines and words became part of the opening lines of Broad-Axe Poem and Bunch Poem in the 1856 edition
On the reverse (nyp.00733) are lines used in a different part of the same poem.; nyp.00733 Night of south
First published as part of Poem of Salutation in Leaves of Grass (1856), then as part of Salut au Monde
On the back of this manuscript is a prose fragment containing phrases that later became part of the poem
11You lusty and graceflu youthBetween 1850 and 1855poetry1 leafhandwritten; An early version of a part
relate to the second poem in the 1855 edition of Leaves, ultimately titled A Song for Occupations, and part
duk.00066xxx.01167ChronologicalBetween 1854 and 1860prose1 leaf, with 2 pasted-on attachmentshandwritten
backing sheet with two smaller manuscript scraps pasted on, which together, at one time, likely formed part
The pasted-on manuscript scraps were originally part of the notebook "women" (loc.05589), which probably
Prose notes written on the back of the bottom paste-on (duk.00878) relate to what became section 2 of
prayBefore or early in 1855poetryprose1 leafhandwritten; An early scrap of prose material similar to parts
1850 and 1860prosehandwritten20 leaves; References to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 indicate that parts
especially in the early pages, on the Constitution as a contract reflects his reading of at least parts
The reverse side of the leaf is part of a manuscript (duk.00066) discussing the conception of time.;
another scrap, the reverse of which (duk.00878) features prose notes that relate to what became section 2
The writing on the reverse side of the leaf (duk.00001) contributed to a different part of the poem that
On the reverse (duk.00032) is also an early version of a part of Great Are the Myths.; duk.00032 Are
.00047his poem of theBetween 1850 and 1860poetryprose2 leaveshandwritten; These two scraps once formed part
The identity of the "large, good-looking woman" and the source of the story about Tom Thumb are unknown
number at the top of the manuscript is not inconsistent with the possible positioning of these lines as part
great Meteor]between 1850-1860poetryhandwritten2 leaves25 x 18 cm; A draft of an unpublished poem, part