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Search : As of 1860, there were no American cities with a population that exceeded

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Run Over

  • Date: 19 July 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

He was taken to the drug store adjacent, where his wounds were dressed, and he was sent to the City Hospital

A Bit of Philosophy on Hot Weather Uneasiness

  • Date: 20 July 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

As to the fashionable custom of decamping from the city, and pitching a new tent in a strange country

A Central Park for Brooklyn—Where Shall It Be?

  • Date: 21 July 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The reasons which we gave some days since for the speedy selection of one large grand Park for the city

Greenwood is located at the very extremity of the city.

It would not be necessary for any considerable portion of the city to take more than one railroad route

No equal tract can be found in or near the city, unintersected by roads. IV. It is cheap.

The city already owns the Reservoir and a large space around it, which will be so much less to pay for

Base Ball

  • Date: 22 July 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

If so, it is very limited in its extent; for when a National Base Ball Convention was held, there were

Williamsburgh Word Portraits, No. 10

  • Date: 26 July 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

end, as they have not heard from me for several weeks; but the fact is that a brief absence from the city

In the county towns as well as in the city, everyone concurs in speaking well of him.

When last elected he was solitary and alone of his party—the rest were all left far behind—but even the

bitter animosity is a partisanship, engendered by presidential elections, were assuaged by the general

He holds an important position under the city government—one which requires, almost beyond any other,

[This morning]

  • Date: 2 August 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Even the strongest Lecomptonists admit, sotto voce , that the issue in 1860 is between the two D's—Douglas

Every Congressman from New York city, and every Tammany man who visits Washington during the next session

Rev. Mr. Hatch and the Sunday Laws

  • Date: 8 August 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

To-day he writes to the Tribune , stating that his views "are precisely the same that they were two years

, when, in connection with the controversy concerning the running of Sunday cars in Brooklyn, they were

If these views were not heretical in '57, they are not in '59."

Sunday

  • Date: 9 August 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—The excitement simultaneously occurring in so many cities as to how far amusements may lawfully be infulged

bier of the outskirts, as he would be by the poisonous spirits vended in the obscure rumshops of the city

The only result of the Sunday car controversy in this city that can in any degree be regretted, is that

The Broadcloth the Enemy of Health

  • Date: 12 August 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

He says: American gentlemen have adopted as a national costume, broadcloth—a thin, tight fitting black

The Stagnant Ponds of the 16th and 18th Wards

  • Date: 23 August 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Varet street actually poisoned 12 head of ducks and geese in one morning, and their rotten carcases were

Health, Work and Study

  • Date: 24 August 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

that the forcing system of school instruction is prematurely wasting the physical stamina of the population

forcibly expressed by the writer in the Atlantic, that we appealed to the Board of Education in this city

Boston in 1854, which resulted in the triumph of the physiologists over the cranium crammers, who were

find space to mention; but we do most seriously exhort every member of the Board of Education of this city

Brain-Work Healthy

  • Date: 5 September 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— The Scientific American thinks that more die annually from a want of sufficient brain-work than from

Galileo and Roger Bacon both lived to 78, Buffon died at 81, Goethe and West were 82, Franklin and Herschel

How Our Women Fade

  • Date: 5 December 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

We have resisted, in a previous article, the common disparaging view taken of the health of American

comparison with that of English women; but we, at the same time, felt constrained to admit, that American

But we wish the superior beauty of our girls were no more rapidly evanescent than is hereby accounted

A Child's Reminiscense

  • Date: 24 December 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

This poem later appeared as "A Word Out of the Sea," Leaves of Grass (1860); as "Out of the Cradle Endlessly

Walt. Whitman's New Poem

  • Date: 28 December 1859
  • Creator(s): Whitman, Walt, and Henry Clapp
Text:

he is a native and resident of Brooklyn, Long Island, born and bred in an obscurity from which it were

His Leaves of Grass were a revelation from the Kingdom of Nature.

If there were any relief to the unmeaning monotony, some glimpse of fine fancy, some oasis of sense,

-1874) was an American writer and actress who contributed a lively column for the Saturday Press from

The comedic works of François Rabelais (c. 1490-1553) were known for their risqué quality.

Annotations Text:

-1874) was an American writer and actress who contributed a lively column for the Saturday Press from

1859-1864.; The comedic works of François Rabelais (c. 1490-1553) were known for their risqué quality

To the English

  • Date: Before 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

German and the Scandinavian Based on the handwriting, Edward Grier dates this manuscript to before 1860

Annotations Text:

Based on the handwriting, Edward Grier dates this manuscript to before 1860 (Notebooks and Unpublished

In a poem make the thought

  • Date: Before 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

— Based on the handwriting, Edward Grier dates this manuscript scrap to before 1860 (Notebooks and Unpublished

the poem that would later be titled "Recorders Ages Hence," first published as "Calamus 10" in the 1860

Annotations Text:

Based on the handwriting, Edward Grier dates this manuscript scrap to before 1860 (Notebooks and Unpublished

the poem that would later be titled "Recorders Ages Hence," first published as "Calamus 10" in the 1860

This note is possibly related to the poem "Recorders Ages Hence," first published in Leaves of Grass (1860

American air I have breathed

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1859
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

20 American air I have breathed, breathe henceforth also of me, American ground that supports me, I will

See "Remembrances I plant American ground with" and "A Remembrance."

American air I have breathed

Annotations Text:

See "Remembrances I plant American ground with" and "A Remembrance.

Three Verses

  • Date: 1860s or 1870s
Text:

The poems were apparently never further developed and were never published.

Based on this date it can be speculated that the notes were written late in 1875 (a possibility corroborated

by the list of names), but the poem(s) may have been inscribed in the late 1860s or earlier.

[I go around]

  • Date: 1860-1863
Text:

[I go around]1860-1863prose2 leaveshandwritten; This manuscript is possibly an early draft of another

With the sun and sky

  • Date: Around 1865
Text:

was written in August 1865, with the poetic lines likely composed slightly earlier (likely the early 1860s

Rise, Lurid Stars

  • Date: about 1865
Text:

Lurid Starsabout 1865poetry1 leafhandwritten; This is a poem draft, the last three lines of which were

Of Ownership

  • Date: about 1860
Text:

Ownershipabout 1860poetry1 leafhandwritten; This manuscript was probably composed in the late 1850s or in 1860

as Whitman was preparing the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.

It is a draft of No. 4 of the Thoughts cluster published first in the 1860 edition.

1881–1882 edition, the second line returned as Thought [Of Equality]; and the third and fourth lines were

[No poem sings]

  • Date: 1860–1876
Text:

321860, "War Memoranda," draftloc.00920xxx.00894[No poem sings]1860–1876prose1 leafhandwrittenprinted

in the west

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
Text:

leaf; This manuscript contains notes for a proposed poem offering a vision of the future of the American

This estimate is in line with that of Edward Grier, who dates the manuscript to "before 1860" (Notebooks

Sea Winrows

  • Date: between 1860 and 1881
Text:

nyp.00033xxx.00132Sea Winrowsbetween 1860 and 1881poetry1 leafhandwritten; A list of words probably related

Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life, originally published as Bardic Symbols in the Atlantic Monthly 5 (April 1860

The Blue Book

  • Date: about 1860
Text:

leaveshandwritten; Of nearly as much significance as Whitman's copy of the 1855 Leaves is his copy of the Boston, 1860

Inscription To the Reader at the entrance of Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 1860–1867
Text:

leaveshandwritten; One of a series of draft introductions Whitman prepared for Leaves of Grass, but which were

until collected by Clifton Joseph Furness in Walt Whitman's Workshop (1928), portions of this draft were

Lines from this manuscript were also revised and used in the poem So Long!

, which first appeared in the 1860-61 edition of Leaves of Grass.

Inscription at the entrance of Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 1860–1867
Text:

leaveshandwritten; One of a series of draft introductions Whitman prepared for Leaves of Grass, but which were

until collected by Clifton Joseph Furness in Walt Whitman's Workshop (1928), portions of this draft were

To the Reader at the Entrance of Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 1860–1867
Text:

leaveshandwrittenprinted; One of a series of draft introductions Whitman prepared for Leaves of Grass, but which were

until collected by Clifton Joseph Furness in Walt Whitman's Workshop (1928), portions of this draft were

Lines from this manuscript were also revised and used in the poem, So Long!

, which first appeared in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.

[The best of the two Introductions]

  • Date: 1860–1865
Text:

nyp.00514xxx.00524[The best of the two Introductions]1860–1865prose8 leaveshandwritten; One of a series

of draft introductions Whitman prepared for Leaves of Grass, but which were never printed during Whitman's

until collected by Clifton Joseph Furness in Walt Whitman's Workshop (1928), portions of this draft were

[Dec 23, 1864 good—& must be used]

  • Date: 1860–1864
Text:

nyp.00513xxx.00524[Dec 23, 1864 good—& must be used]1860–1864prose8 leaveshandwritten; One of a series

of draft introductions Whitman prepared for Leaves of Grass, but which were never printed during Whitman's

until collected by Clifton Joseph Furness in Walt Whitman's Workshop (1928), portions of this draft were

[Thuswise it comes]

  • Date: 1860–1867
Text:

nyp.00516xxx.00022[Thuswise it comes]1860–1867poetry3 leaveshandwritten; One of a series of draft introductions

Whitman prepared for Leaves of Grass, but which were never printed during Whitman's lifetime.

Of Emerson's 1st vol

  • Date: 1860–1873
Text:

Portions of this manuscript were used in Emerson's Books, (The Shadows of them), which first appeared

Portions of the essay were reprinted in the New York Tribune on 15 May 1882 under the title, A Democratic

Hush'd be the camps to-day

  • Date: about 1865
Text:

Three of the leaves on which the manuscript is written are smaller and were formerly pasted to the fourth

Poem of The Woods

  • Date: probably between 1860 and 1880
Text:

24tex.00043xxx.00700Poem of the WoodsPoem of The Woodsprobably between 1860 and 1880poetry1 leafhandwritten

Poem of Triumph

  • Date: probably between 1860 and 1880
Text:

21tex.00032xxx.00701Poem of TriumphPoem of Triumphprobably between 1860 and 1880poetry1 leafhandwritten

Write A Drunken Song

  • Date: probably between 1860 and 1875
Text:

26tex.00055xxx.00708Write a drunken song…Write A Drunken Songprobably between 1860 and 1875poetry1 leafhandwritten

There is that

  • Date: 1860-1870
Text:

leafhandwritten; A small scrap of prose that would make its way into a footnote for Carlyle From American

Although Edward Grier states that the handwriting on the scrap indicates a date in the 1860s, the essay

America needs her own poems

  • Date: early 1860s
Text:

This manuscript probably dates to the early 1860s, as it appears to have been inscribed after the writing

the leaf (duk.00795), which contains draft lines that contributed to poems first published in the 1860

Notebook, 1860-1861

  • Date: 1860-1861
Text:

2Notebooks, 1860-1861loc.00029xxx.00131Notebook, 1860-18611860-1861prosepoetryhandwritten61 leaves; An

relates to poems ultimately titled Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, By Blue Ontario's Shore, The City

Some of the trial verses in this notebook were published posthumously as [I Stand and Look], Ship of

Notebook, 1860-1861

Note Book

  • Date: 1860
Text:

2[1860], Boston notebookloc.04605xxx.00981Note Book1860prosepoetry34 leaveshandwritten; A notebook from

Whitman's trip to Boston in March through May of 1860.

from his visit, the first two leaves (surfaces 3 and 4) contain notes related to the printing of the 1860

Brooklyn & Washington Notebook

  • Date: 1860-1875
Text:

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

Walt Whitman by Stephen Alonzo Schoff after an oil portrait by Charles W. Hine, 1860

  • Date: 1860
  • Creator(s): Schoff, Stephan Alonzo | Hine, Charles W.
Text:

Hine, 1860 Whitman called this engraving, which he used as the frontispiece for the 1860 edition of Leaves

See Ted Genoways, "'Scented herbage of my breast': Whitman's Chest Hair and the Frontispiece to the 1860

Walt Whitman by J.W. Black? Alexander Gardner?, ca. early 1860s

  • Date: ca. early 1860s
  • Creator(s): Black, J.W. | Gardner, Alexander
Text:

, ca. early 1860s Library of Congress print of photo, in unknown handwriting on the back, identifies

this as having been taken around 1860 by Mathew Brady.For more information on J.

Walt Whitman by Unknown, ca. early 1860s

  • Date: ca. early 1860s
  • Creator(s): Unknown
Text:

Walt Whitman by Unknown, ca. early 1860s Henry S.

Walt Whitman by J.W. Black of Black and Batchelder, 1860

  • Date: 1860
  • Creator(s): Black, J.W.
Text:

Black of Black and Batchelder, 1860 Writing in 1860 about his trip to Boston, Whitman said to his friend

I say that if once

  • Date: 1850s
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I do not expect to dispel the I say that if once the conventional distinctions were dis-pelled from our

1993), Elisa New attributes the manuscript to "the period when the first drafts of Leaves of Grass were

Annotations Text:

1993), Elisa New attributes the manuscript to "the period when the first drafts of Leaves of Grass were

Leaves of Grass Imprints (1860)

  • Date: 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Leaves of Grass Imprints (1860) Leaves of Grass Imprints (1860) Walt Whitman, 1819-1892 Ed Folsom Kenneth

this publication only. ppp.01860 Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass Imprints Boston Thayer and Eldridge 1860

University of Iowa Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives PS3238 .L35 1860, copy 1 updated

Walt Whitman's Caution

  • Date: 1860–1861
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

TO The States, or any one of them, or any city of The States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning

obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth, ever afterward

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