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discord-partsabout 1885poetry1 leafhandwritten; This is a draft of the poem And Yet Not You Alone, published as part
manuscript is bound with others under the title Fancies at Navesink. your needed blending discord-parts
This poem You Tides with Ceaseless Swell was first published as part of the Fancies at Navesink group
11You lusty and graceflu youthBetween 1850 and 1855poetry1 leafhandwritten; An early version of a part
Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:
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.
Though parts of Our Wounded and Sick Soldiers were partially reprinted in the New York Weekly Graphic
.00480MS q 111wooding at nightbetween 1848 and 1887prose2 leaveshandwritten; Manuscript that chronicles part
The first part of this manuscript resembles a line in the fifth poem of that edition, eventually titled
number at the top of the manuscript is not inconsistent with the possible positioning of these lines as part
The first part of this manuscript was slightly revised and used nearly verbatim in Mature Summer Days
brain]about 1855poetryhandwritten1 leaf5 x 16 cm; Draft lines of an incomplete poem, of which other parts
First published as part of Poem of Salutation in Leaves of Grass (1856), then as part of Salut au Monde
The poem was later published in Leaves of Grass as part of the Autumn Rivulets cluster (1881, p. 310)
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
draft of poetic lines that may be an early version of Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning, published as part
On the verso is part of a cancelled letter to Whitman.
of Chants Democratic in the 1860 Leaves of Grass, with leaf 1 corresponding to verses 1-6 and leaf 2
[Walt Whitman is putting the later touches]1890prose1 leafhandwritten; This manuscript contains part
90) Whitman is drafting the title of By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame, a poem which first appeared as part
Surface 143 (image 144) contains a draft of The Veteran's Vision, which also first appeared as part of
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
(See Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, 2: 42.)
notesTramp & strike questionabout 1882prose1 leafhandwritten; These notes, jotted with apparent haste, are part
Part of a Lecture proposed, (never deliver'd.) in Specimen Days & Collect (1882–83).
Part of a Lecture proposed, (never deliver'd.) in Specimen Days & Collect (1882–83).
eventually published (1881) as one of the poems in the cluster Inscriptions, but Whitman dropped section 2
Lippincott's Magazine as To the Sunset Breeze in December 1890, in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) and, as part
It later appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) and, as part of the Good-Bye my Fancy annex, in the so-called
The couplet, however, was not part of any of those earlier essays.
to start upon]between 1864 and 1874prose1 leafhandwritten; This manuscript fragment was originally part
Before the sheet was cut into three pieces, this fragment formed the lower part.
to start upon]between 1864 and 1874prose1 leafhandwritten; This manuscript fragment was originally part
Before the sheet was cut into three pieces, this fragment formed the upper part.
In 1860 it formed part of the Messenger Leaves cluster under the same title.
After being ungrouped (1867) and transferred to the cluster Songs of Parting (1872 and 1876), it finally
Side 1 corresponds to verses 1-9 of section 14 of Chants Democratic in the 1860 Leaves of Grass; side 2
On the reverse are lines that were possibly also written as part of the process for the creation of that
eventually titled To Foreign Lands, first published in Leaves of Grass (1860–61) as To other Lands as part
.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
In 1867 Whitman deleted five verses, transferred the poem to the supplement Songs Before Parting, and
These lines come from the first verse paragraph of section 2 of the poem.
However, no lines from this manuscript can be directly linked to any part of Inscriptions.
.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
The writing on the verso, concerning George Fox and Quakerism, is part of an apparently unrelated two-page
Parts of the poem were reworked and first published as section five of Passage to India (1871).
frequently changed]between 1864 and 1874prose1 leafhandwritten; This manuscript fragment was originally part
Before the sheet was cut into three pieces, this fragment formed the middle part.
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
time1871-1875prose1 leafhandwritten; This prose manuscript fragment, heavily revised, appears to be part
It was also part of a series of reviews printed separately and included in some copies of the 1855 edition
The leaf consists of two clipped scraps pasted together, and the upper part of the leaf is pasted to
Our images show the front of the leaf, that part of the back visible by lifting the lower part of the
On the verso is a letter from Henry Hopkins dated November 2, 1891. [The tangled long]
The verso contains part of a cancelled letter about the steamer Georgia between Charles Francis Adams
The poem was part of a cluster entitled Old Age Echoes, included in an edition of Leaves of Grass compiled
fol.00010xxx.00589Y.d.1036 (2)Autograph notes by Walt Whitman [manuscript], 19th century.
.00473That there should be1875-1888prose1 leafhandwritten; This manuscript contributed to the last part