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early 1850s (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:

Fragments (see Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:

retreats beneath its half- powdered bones, A In vain objects stand leagues off and assume manifold shapes, 1

early 1850s (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:

1 Do you know why what m usic does to the soul?

1 American literature must become distinct from all others.

2 9A 1 dithyrambic trochee iambic anaepest.

The example for hexameter (at the bottom of leaf 1 recto) is taken from a line in Homer.

published in an 1846 issue of the American Whig Review ("Translators of Homer," American Whig Review 4, no. 1

Grier (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1:355–356.

like page 2 1120) (7 7840 160 4 1160) 6400 (5 5800 600 2 for frontispiece & fly for title & blank 15—1

Maud, Sec. ii., St. 1. "Do you suspect death? If I were to suspect death, I should die now.

Miller, Jr.) have included as the last stanza of Kentucky (see image 1).

1856 Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia PS3201 1856, copy 1

Leaves of Grass Page 1.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 LEAVES OF GRASS. 1

exaltations, They come to me days and nights and go from me again, But they are not the Me myself. 1*

to 7, indicating their degrees of development, 1 meaning very small, 2 small, 3 moderate, 4 average,

. ∗ The organs are marked by figures from 1 to 7, indicating their degrees of development, 1 meaning

Poem of Walt Whitman, an American. 1 — Poem of Walt Whitman, an American.

exaltations, They come to me days and nights and go from me again, But they are not the Me myself. 1*

disembarcation, the founding of a new city, The voyage of those who sought a New England and found it, The Year 1

Weather-beaten vessels, landings, settlements, the rapid stature and muscle, The haughty defiance of the Year 1—

Louis is about 38 1-2 deg. and San Francisco 37 1-2 north latitude.

Those concerned may be classed as: 1. Those who left the city.

( The Knickerbocker, or New York Monthly Magazine , 37 [January 1851], 70–1). they gradually scatter

growing value of property in lower Manhattan, Trinity sold the park to the Hudson River Railroad for $1

announces that after the 1st of January next, his publication will be issued monthly in quarto form, at $1

Hudson's 'Thoughts on Reading,' American Whig Review, 1 (May 1845), 483–496, which he clipped and annotated

" (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:95).

the 1850s (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:

.— 1* The constitution covenants that the free states shall give up runaway servants—that we all know

Grier, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1:209

1854–1855" (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:

before 1855" (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:

that "the small writing suggests a date in the 1850s" (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 1:

50-51uva.00182xxx.00061[Now the hour has come upon me]1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 18.5 x

p. 341 [Long I was held]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf16 x 10 cm; This manuscript became section 1

On the first side of the folded leaf a blue pencil was used to correct a pencil number 7 to a 1, and

first and 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, in the same light brown ink and, like them, with only minor revisions.

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

The lines on the first leaf became verses 1-9 of section 7 of Calamus in 1860, and the second leaf's

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

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

The lines on the first leaf became verses 1-5 of section 8 of Calamus in 1860; the second leaf's lines

50-51uva.00314xxx.00066[Hours continuing long]1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 9.5 x 9 cm; leaf

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

The first page contains what would become verses 1-3 in 1860, and the second ("Hours discouraged, distracted

50-51uva.00340xxx.00066[You bards of ages hence]1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 8 x 9 cm; leaf

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

The lines on the first page correspond to verses 1-3 of the 1860 version, and those on the second page

For an earlier draft of the poem numbered V please see the verso of leaves 15-16 of Premonition (1:1:

The lines on the first page correspond to verses 1-5 of the 1860 version, and those on the second page

50-51uva.00332xxx.00066xxx.00081To a new personal admirer1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 13

featuring a new first line, became section 12 of Calamus in 1860; in 1867 Whitman dropped the last 2 1/

Whitman numbered this page 1 in pencil.

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

With the addition of a new first line ("1. Who is now reading this?")

number 17 of the Calamus cluster in 1860, with the lines on the first leaf corresponding to verses 1-

The group first appeared in print in the 1860 Leaves of Grass with this poem as section 1.

It became section 20 of Calamus in 1860; the lines on the first manuscript page correspond to verses 1-

This poem became section 21 of Calamus in 1860; the lines on the first manuscript page became verses 1-

It was numbered section 22 of Calamus in 1860: the lines on the first page correspond to verses 1-6 of

The excised top portion of the leaf became the bottom section of page 2 of 1:3:11, the poem (eighth in

This page bears the same papermaker's mark as 1:3:35.

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

9 1/2 (a full page despite its number), and 10-15.

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

-51uva.00189xxx.00309xxx.00413Thought [Of these years I sing]1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1

(This particular Thought was numbered section 1 of the composite poem.)

.00190xxx.00413xxx.00047Thought [Of closing up my songs by these]1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1

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

Side 1 corresponds to verses 1-9 of section 14 of Chants Democratic in the 1860 Leaves of Grass; side