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Sheets.loc.02505xxx.00384My 71st Yearabout 1889poetryhandwritten1 leaf11.5 x 15 cm; Proof sheet of My
My 71st Year was first published in 1889. My 71st Year
1891poetryhandwritten1 leaf28 x 22 cm; Manuscripts of the following four poems, written neatly with slight corrections: My
task, L of G's Purport, Death dogs my steps, and For us two, reader dear.
My Task
27O Captain! My Captain! (1865).
.00218My Captainabout 1865poetryhandwritten3 leaves; Draft of the poem that would be published as O Captain
My Captain! in 1865, titled here My Captain.
My Captain
27O Earth, My Likeness (1860).
A.MS. draft.loc.00225xxx.00099[O Earth, my likeness]1860poetryhandwritten1 leaf20.5 x 16 cm; A draft
of the poem first published as Calamus, No. 36 in 1860 (Earth, My Likeness in the final version of Leaves
[O Earth, my likeness]
reciting (published as Old Chants in 1891), Grand is the seen (first published in 1891), Death dogs my
(first published in 1891), My task (published as part of L. of G.'s Purport in 1891), L. of G.'
s Purport (only the first two lines of the poem of the same title published in 1891), Death dogs my steps
s Purport (only two lines of the twelve-line poem of the same title first published in 1891), My task
On the verso is a note in Whitman's hand reading "to my 2d & last Annex for L of G."
A.MS. draft.loc.00088xxx.00236Returning to my pages' front oncebetween 1871 and 1876poetryhandwritten1
Returning to my pages' front once
A.MS. draft.loc.00248xxx.00236[(Returning to my pages front once]between 1873-1876poetryhandwritten1
[(Returning to my pages front once]
A.MS. draft and notes.loc.00268xxx.00263[Thou knowest my]about 1874poetryhandwritten1 leaf; A draft of
[Thou knowest my]
A.MS. draft and notes.loc.00273xxx.00263[My hand, my limbs grow nerveless]about 1874poetrypoetryhandwritten1
[My hand, my limbs grow nerveless]
A.MS. draft and notes.loc.00277xxx.00263[my end draws]about 1874poetryhandwritten1 leaf; A draft of lines
[my end draws]
A.MS. draft and notes.loc.00278xxx.00263[my brain grows rack'd]about 1874poetryhandwritten1 leaf; A draft
[my brain grows rack'd]
A.MS. draft and notes.loc.00281xxx.00263[my altar here the bleak sea-sand]about 1874poetryhandwritten1
[my altar here the bleak sea-sand]
Doyle recalled, "We were familiar at once—I put my hand on his knee—we understood . . .
soul the clear and unmistakable conviction to disobey all, and pursue my own way" (Whitman 281).
My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman . Boston: Beacon, 1985. Coffman, Stanley K., Jr.
body as I pass, / Be not afraid of my body."
He examined his own experience in My Days and Dreams (1890).
g g o my o e f n e v e g n y 7 s f d n m h iu e e e a e O a r ” o e e p b ” r m a n T o t n ) a h n a
w n n h w m 1 9 s e l , r r - , t n t e . e s e . r r e - t e e r e d o - e ; ) 0 n tev o n o te f my
ym teaah b m n e god d hlfo e u u nob e e mys u r W O e g e u W s r S r m e I t u s t F n d n , e re
"My own opinion is that myriads of superior works have been lost—superior to existing works in every
From Contemporary Notes by George Joseph Bell." 1878 February 1878 or later "In my reading, elocution
radiation, &c. as to its fitness, appropriateness, advantage (or disadvantage) with reference to me, to my
marginal note responds to Mazzini's advice about maintaining tranqulity in adversity with "Remember my
Bliss Perry, with my kindest regards—Ellen M. Calder. June 24, 1906."
Brown"; in pen (probably Mitchell's hand), "Given to my son Langdon March 1887". Dr.
Emory Holloway / My dear Mr.
Holloway, / You ask for some history of my 'Leaves of Grass' and I find myself rather vague as to my
My father-in-law, Thomas [illeg.]
might, in part, explain Whitman’s protest later in life to Horace Traubel that the pamphlet was “not my
I reserve the right of using it in any future edition of my poems.
there, for any purpose—In some haste, dearest mother, as I am off to visit for an hour or so, one of my