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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

1883prose3 leaveshandwritten; Three-page draft of The Attempted Official Suppression, a section of Part

2, Chapter 1, History of Leaves of Grass, in Richard Maurice Bucke's 1883 biography, Walt Whitman.

In the 1867 and 1871–72 editions it appeared again as 2 in clusters titled Thoughts.

Finally, in Leaves of Grass (1881–82) Whitman combined parts of this and another poem, again titled Thoughts

, and included it in the By the Roadside cluster. 2

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

50-51uva.00188xxx.00297A Sunset Carol1857-1859poetryhandwritten6 leavesleaf 1 25.5 x 12.5 cm, leaves 2-

In 1867, he gave it the permanent title Song at Sunset and moved it to the supplement Songs Before Parting

; in 1871 it was finally transferred to the cluster Songs of Parting within the main body of Leaves of

manuscript left unpublished by Whitman, containing ideas potentially connected with the unpublished short story

.00309xxx.00413Thought [Of these years I sing]1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 21.5 x 13 cm, leaf 2

Whitman combined it with the second Thought to form the poem Thoughts in the supplement Songs Before Parting

In 1871 Thoughts appeared in the cluster Songs of Parting within the main body of Leaves of Grass, and

songs by these]1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 9 x 12.5 cm pasted to 17.5 x 13.5 cm, leaf 2

Whitman combined it with the second Thought to form the poem Thoughts in the supplement Songs Before Parting

In 1871 Thoughts appeared in the cluster Songs of Parting within the main body of Leaves of Grass, and

(No. 2.), which was published in the Critic on April 9, 1881.

Though he did not include this essay as a whole in Specimen Days & Collect (1882–83), Whitman reprinted parts

eventually become All is Truth and Germs as section 3 of a Leaves of Grass group in the annex Songs Before Parting

In 1881 he dropped the first two verses and added Voices (as verse paragraph 2) to the previously unrelated

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

(No. 2), Critic (9 April 1881).

For the complex history of how Whitman, for Specimen Days, mined his six-part Critic series on How I

These notes first appeared in the 9 April 1881 issue of The Critic as part of How I Get Around at Sixty

(No. 2), under the section heading Convalescent Hours.

scrap, regarding the so-called "Hicksite Separation" within the Religious Society of Friends, forms part

(See Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, 2: 42.)

Howell1863prosehandwritten1 leaf; This manuscript contains notes on the story of a young soldier, Benjamin

placed before Starting from Paumanok at the beginning of the book; in that edition he also transferred part

of verse 2 to As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shore (later the line was dropped and the title was revised

duk.00027) is a poetry manuscript containing ideas possibly connected to Whitman's unpublished short story

.00066xxx.00081To a new personal admirer1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 13 x 11.5 cm; leaf 2

featuring a new first line, became section 12 of Calamus in 1860; in 1867 Whitman dropped the last 2

1/2 lines and permanently retitled it Are you the New Person Drawn Toward Me?

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

The identity of the "large, good-looking woman" and the source of the story about Tom Thumb are unknown

Williams" dated December 2, 1880. The poem was first published in 1881. A Clear Midnight

Whitman used many of the scences from Roberts's story in the poem, A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and

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

Section 2 of the Calamus group was permanently retitled Scented Herbage of my Breast in 1867.

On the second page Whitman added, in a combination of normal and blue pencil, the number 43 (1/2).

the poem became section 16 of Calamus in 1860; the lines on the first draft page correspond to verses 2-

Whitman also numbered each leaf in the lower-left corner in pencil: the leaves follow the order 1-9, 9 1/2

The expression "the Eightieth year of / These States" at the top of leaf 2 indicates that Whitman was

No. 2, Daily Standard (5 June 1861). Hendrik Hudson

27Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone (1887)loc.00223xxx.00369[Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone]May 2, 1887poetryhandwritten1

Alone first published in 1887, with Whitman's signature at the bottom and "Camden NJ" and the date, May 2,

On the verso is a letter from Henry Hopkins dated November 2, 1891. [The tangled long]

to correct a pencil number 7 to a 1, and on the third side the blue pencil corrected a pencil 8 to a 2.

Calamus, but the five lines beginning "Scented herbage of my breast" became the opening verses of section 2

manuscript draft of the poem, My Canary Bird, which was first published in the New York Herald on March 2,

2-3New York City notebookloc.05080xxx.00982Notebook Walt Whitman1857-1861prose22 leaveshandwritten; Two

article An Old Brooklyn Landmark Going, published in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on 10 October 1861, page 2.

.00496Fables1871poetryhandwritten1 leaf23 x 20 cm; This poem became numbered verse paragraph 4 of section 2

361876, Oct.2, "In Memory of Thomas Paine," signed draftloc.01076xxx.00943[Some 35 years ago]1876prosehandwritten6

leaves; Dated "Oct 2 '76" on the last page, this manuscript is a draft of Whitman's speech on Thomas

One of the names referenced on the verso, "Covert," appears in Whitman's short story "Revenge and Requital

Daily Eagle in the days leading up to the launch, and the launch itself was reported in an unsigned story

third sides of two folded half-sheets (20 x 16 cm) of the same white wove paper used for 1:3:1 and 1:3:2,

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

A note at the top states: "sent to Herald March 2" indicating the draft was likely completed around the

This notice appeared unsigned in the 2 November 1881 issue of the Boston Evening Transcript under the

51uva.00340xxx.00066[You bards of ages hence]1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 8 x 9 cm; leaf 2

Whitman numbered the first 9 1/2 and the second 10, in pencil, in the lower-left corner of each leaf.

50-51uva.00321xxx.00066[Long I thought that knowledge]1857-1859poetryhandwritten3 leavesleaves 1 and 2

Whitman also penciled in the numbers 7, 8, and 8 1/2 in the lower-left corner of each page.

51uva.00314xxx.00066[Hours continuing long]1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 9.5 x 9 cm; leaf 2

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

Heavily revised draft, signed, of Queries to My Seventieth Year, a poem first published in the May 2,

.00031xxx.00502A Night Battle in the late War1863prose1 leafhandwritten; This is a brief note, dated May 2,

of the manuscript leaves are stored with a letter to the editor, James Russell Lowell, dated October 2,

.00182xxx.00061[Now the hour has come upon me]1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 18.5 x 16 cm, leaf 2

January 2, 1891poetryhandwritten1 leaf; This is a late draft of Ship Ahoy!

draft became section 16 of Chants Democratic in 1860, with Leaf 1 corresponding to verses 1-6 and Leaf 2

Calamus, transforming the title into a new first line and expanding the original first line into verses 2-

Leaf 1 corresponds to verses 1-6 of the 1860 version, and the lines on leaf 2 ("Who out of the theory

poem became section 20 of Chants Democratic in 1860, with leaf 1 corresponding to verses 1-6 and leaf 2

eventually published (1881) as one of the poems in the cluster Inscriptions, but Whitman dropped section 2