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of Year] in Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984) 2:

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

DemocracyBetween December 1867 and May 1868prose2 leaveshandwritten; These two leaves used to form part

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

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-

In the 1871–72 edition, revised and titled Thought, it was included in the Songs of Parting cluster.

Draft fragment of Autumn Side-Bits, that first appeared in the 29 January 1881 issue of The Critic as part

Whitman further revised this prose piece before including it in Specimen Days & Collect (1882–1883) as part

Part of the Sky]1876–1877prose2 leaveshandwritten; A heavily revised draft fragment of The Sky—Days and

Part of the Sky]

The poem was part of a cluster entitled Old Age Echoes, included in an edition of Leaves of Grass compiled

It later appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) and, as part of the Good-Bye my Fancy annex, in the so-called

inside of Abraham Lincoln]22 August 1865prose2 leaveshandwritten; This manuscript contains a large part

the lines on another manuscript in the University of Virginia collection, which were revised to form part

50-51uva.00195xxx.00240American Laws1857-1859poetryhandwritten3 leavesleaf 1 19.5 x 12.5 cm, leaves 2-

This manuscript is probably part of an early draft of the preface for that volume.

On the versos are parts of letters (to Whitman) and notes in Whitman's hand.

about 1885poetry1 leafhandwritten; This is a revised draft of the poem Then Last of All, published as part

great Meteor]between 1850-1860poetryhandwritten2 leaves25 x 18 cm; A draft of an unpublished poem, part

feature draft lines which appeared slightly revised in the 29 January 1881 issue of the The Critic as part

If indeed Whitman wrote this line as part of the present manuscript, it would connect it with the early

The poems reappeared under the heading Fancies at Navesink, although still part of Sands at Seventy,

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

On the reverse (duk.00032) is also an early version of a part of Great Are the Myths.; duk.00032 Are

Whitman later used a part of the published article (a part that has no parallel in the present manuscript

In 1867 Whitman moved it to a different Leaves of Grass group in the Songs Before Parting annex.

50-51uva.00206xxx.00276As of the The Truth1857-1859poetryhandwritten4 leavesleaf 2 19.5 x 13 cm, all

.00293Ashes of Rosesbetween 1868 and 1871poetryhandwritten2 leaves23.5 x 13.5 and 10 x 13.5 cm; Poem draft, parts

The article, published under the name "George Selwyn," was part of a series called "American Authors

tis ghastly to descendabout 1889poetryhandwritten1 leaf; Eight lines evidently written originally as part

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

According to Edward Grier, this scrap may have been part of a larger manuscript of notes about other

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

2[1860-1864], Brooklyn and Washington notebookloc.04604xxx.00980Brooklyn & Washington Notebook1860-1875prose33

The leaves that make up this manuscript incorporate parts of a previous version, published in the New

The top part of this manuscript has been cut away, leaving the emendations to what would become line

(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

leaf7 x 21 cm; The laid paper was originally the last page of a letter; a few illegible words 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

The leaf originally was part of a larger notebook (loc.00024) that probably dates to between 1853 and

.00112xxx.00085A City WalkAbout 1855poetryhandwritten1 leaf4.5 x 12 cm; A faint horizontal line beneath part

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

It was first published as part of A Christmas Garland in Prose and Verse in the New York Daily Graphic

through 3 and 5; leaf 2 ("You felons on trial in courts,") to 4 and most of 6; and leaf 3 ("And I say

manuscript fragment regarding the importance of the spiritual aspect of human consciousness is probably part

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

Two lines from this manuscript, "At vacancy with Nature / Acceptive and at ease," were used as part of

The proof has been pasted to a heavy piece of paper, on the verso of which is A Riddle Song, part of

According to Edward Grier, this scrap may have been part of a larger manuscript of notes about other

Parts of the essay were used for Death of Thomas Carlyle published in Specimen Days in 1882 (later retained

On the verso appears part of a letter with Houghton Mifflin Publishers letterhead. The Dead Emperor

On the verso can be found various writings, including an earlier draft of The Dead Tenor, part of a letter