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Review of Leaves of Grass (1855)

  • Date: November 1856
  • Creator(s): D. W.
Text:

And it means, Sprouting, alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

Examine these limbs, red, black or white…they are very cunning in tendon and nerve; They shall be stript

William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813-1865) was an influential Scottish poet famed for his parodies and light

Review of Leaves of Grass (1856)

  • Date: November 1856
  • Creator(s): Alger, William Rounseville
Text:

The attribution of this review to William Rounseville Alger is indebted to Gary Scharnhorst's article

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 13 November 1856
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

White and beautiful are the faces around me…the heads are bared of their fire-caps.

Autobiographical Data

  • Date: Between 1848 and 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Winter of 1840, went to white stone, and was there till next spring.— Went to New York in May 1841, and

Edward the Confessor, a Saxon, king.— Harold, son of a nobleman.— His pretensions were opposed by William

, Duke of Normandy.— The crown had been left William by Edward the Confessor.— Pope in favor of William

William entered England, fought Harold, defeated him, and gained the crown.

William the Conqueror 1087 William Rufus, son " 1100 Henry I.

[These I, singing in spring]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

of a poem inscribed on the first and third sides of two folded half-sheets (20 x 16 cm) of the same white

[Long I thought that knowledge]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

1857-1859poetryhandwritten3 leavesleaves 1 and 2 15 x 9.5 cm; leaf 3 6.5 x 9.5 cm; On three pieces of white

[Hours continuing long]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 9.5 x 9 cm; leaf 2 14.5 x 9 cm pasted to 5 x 9.5 cm; On two pieces of white

[You bards of ages hence]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 8 x 9 cm; leaf 2 14.5 x 9.5 cm pasted to 5.5 x 9.5 cm; On two sections of white

[When I heard at the close of]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00080[When I heard at the close of]1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leaves15 x 9.5 cm; On two leaves of white

paper, both measuring 15 x 9.5 cm; the lower half of the second page is pasted over with a section of white

To a new personal admirer

  • Date: 1857-1859
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admirer1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 13 x 11.5 cm; leaf 2 20 x 16 cm; On two pieces of white

Calamus-Leaves

  • Date: 1857-1859
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50-51uva.00310xxx.00066xxx.00083Calamus-Leaves1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf15 x 9 cm; On white wove

City of my walks and joys

  • Date: late 1850s
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1850spoetryhandwritten1 leaf8.5 x 10 cm pasted to 20 x 16 cm; On a composite leaf consisting of two pieces of white

In the garden

  • Date: late 1850s
Text:

1850spoetryhandwritten1 leaf8.5 x 10 cm pasted to 20 x 16 cm; A composite leaf consisting of two pieces of white

[I saw in Louisiana a]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00066xxx.00087[I saw in Louisiana a]1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leaves15 x 9.5 cm; On two leaves of white

[This moment as I sit alone]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00331xxx.00066xxx.00089[This moment as I sit alone]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leafcm; On one leaf of white

[Here the frailest leaves of me]

  • Date: 1857-1859
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.00095xxx.00105[Here the frailest leaves of me]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf15 x 9.5 cm; On one leaf of white

[A leaf for hand-in-hand]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

.00066xxx.00098[A leaf for hand-in-hand]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf14.5 x 9 cm; On one leaf of white

[Earth]

  • Date: 1857-1859
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-51uva.00312xxx.00066xxx.00099[Earth]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf14.5 x 9.5 cm; On one leaf of white

[I dreamed in a dream of a]

  • Date: 1857-1859
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.00066xxx.00100[I dreamed in a dream of a]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf9.5 x 9 cm; On one leaf of white

[What think you I have]

  • Date: 1857-1859
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you I have]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf8.5 x 9 cm pasted to 6.5 x 9 cm; On a composite leaf of white

[Sometimes]

  • Date: 1857-1859
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51uva.00328xxx.00066xxx.00103[Sometimes]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf15 x 9.5 cm; On one leaf of white

[To the young man]

  • Date: 1857-1859
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.00337xxx.00066xxx.00104[To the young man]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf15 x 9 cm; On one leaf of white

[O you whom I often and silently come where you are]

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

often and silently come where you are]1857-1859poetryhandwritten1 leaf14.5 x 9 cm; On one leaf of white

To a Cantatrice

  • Date: 1857-1859
Text:

On one section of the same leaf of white ruled laid paper used for To a Historian, and with another fragment

How to Get Thin

  • Date: 20 April 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Excess of fat causes the human epidermis to crack, mottling the skin with white speckles and streaks;

This list of one week's

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; 16 May 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Sub-marine excavator: William Kennish Brooklyn, N.Y., assignor to Andrew B. Gray, San Diego, Cal.

The Police Contest

  • Date: 22 May 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

We have his aim now set before us in black and white.

White labor, versus Black labor

  • Date: 25 May 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White labor, versus Black labor White labor, versus Black labor.

whether it be submitted to the inhabitants of that territory for their fiat, the great cause of American White

indeed formed upon the wishes of the people, no doubt or shadow of doubt clouds the prospects of the White

Grand Buildings in New York City

  • Date: 5 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

avenue, Madison avenue, and tens of streets around and above Union Park, have their palatial houses of white

Such considerations as these make us laugh at the architecture of the New York Custom House, with its white

Good for Governor Walker!

  • Date: 6 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the Jury-box, vote in all elections, meet us in social intercourse, and intermarry freely with the whites

The doctrine of the perfect equality of the white with the black in all respects whatsoever, social and

The Free State theory is that the West is the white man's land—the land for free independent farmers,

such a State government as will result in large plantations, full of African slaves, crowding out the white

farmer, white emigrant, and white poor family.

Cultural Geography Scrapbook

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860; Date unknown; 1847; 1855; 20 June 1857; 15 August 1857; unknown; 01 October 1857; 13 October 1857; 14 October 1858; 10 October 1858; 15 October 1858; 1849; 09 January 1858; 19 July 1856; 14 March 1857; 06 October 1856; 13 July 1859; 17 February 1860; 12 December 1856; 21 March 1857; 1848; 08 December 1855; 17 August 1857; 05 April 1857; 1857; 26 December 1857; 06 December 1857; 31 January 1857; 28 January 1858; 14 November 1856; 25 May 1857; 07 April 1857; 10 May 1856; 1856; 18 April 1857; 20 May 1857; 25 April 1857; 08 December 1857; 27 December 1856; 12 June 1857; 28 March 1857; 29 March 1857; 25 January 1857; July 1847; 28 November 1858; 21 February 1858; January 9, 1858; December 11, 1857; October 2, 1857; September 12, 1857; 20 December 1856; 05 December 1857; December 26, 1857; January 1, 1858; July 26, 1858; October 26, 1856; October 11, 1857; 30 August 1857; November 2, 1858; January 6, 1858; August 26, 1856; September 16, 1857; 29 December 1857; 07 November 1858; 15 July 1857; 18 December 1857; 20 August 1858; 17 December 1857; 27 January 1858; 20 March 1857; July, August, September, 1849; 26 April 1857; 08 August 1857; November 8, 1858; 26 September 1857; 24 October 1857; 27 July 1857; 26 July 1857; 19 July 1857; 10 August 1857; 25 October 1857; 06 April 1857; 13 June 1857; 11 May 1857; 27 September 1858; 1852; 08 February 1857; 16 March 1859; 28 August 1856; 23 September 1858; 19 November 1858; 29 January 1859; 3 January 1856; 29 August 1856; 31 December 1858; 24 October 1860; 19 April 1858; 4 December 1858; 27 December 1857; 6 December 1857; 17 January 1858; 24 April 1858; 27 December 1858; 25 August 1856; 26 August 1856; 17 January 1857; 11 April 1848; 18 April 1848
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

White pine abounds in the northern part, and white and red oak on the coast.

Roger Williams, First Settler of Rhode Island.

Both of these monuments are of white marble.

Along the White River, the St.

The name of William B.

Sarah Tyndale to Walt Whitman, 24 June 1857

  • Date: June 24, 1857
  • Creator(s): Sarah Tyndale
Annotations Text:

Martha "Mattie" Griffith Browne (d. 1906) was a white abolitionist and suffragist who wrote poetry and

Of The Weather

  • Date: 27 June 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In the street the sun beats down in one concentrated glare, beneath which white men wince and wilt.

Now are Spring and Summer Raglans discarded, and white-gossamer fabrics take their place.

Book Notices

  • Date: 3 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

By William C. Prime. TENT LIFE IN THE HOLY LAND. By William C.

Metropolitan Police Commission

  • Date: 7 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

We stepped in for a few moments at the depot of the Metropolitan Police Commissioners in White street

Health Hints

  • Date: 11 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

We allude to weizen or wheat beer, now generally known as Berlin white beer, from its pale color."

A Thought From An Occurrence of Yesterday

  • Date: 18 July 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

There a miserable, half-crazy nigger, enveloped in a white shroud, was taken in the midst of a procession

An Hour Among the Porcelain Manufactories in Greenpoint

  • Date: 3 August 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

, glittering with mica and newly arrived from Connecticut, and here lay small hillocks of the snow white

Then came the door plates with their dark grounds and white letters, and very familiar looked the interesting

We fear that there were more than sufficient “numbers” for church-pews, done in nice white and gold letters

"One Touch of Nature"

  • Date: 22 September 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

One William Shakespeare, a literary man, who is supposed to have understood the intricacies of human

The Truant Children Law

  • Date: 21 October 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In a word, are white children, even if born in poverty, to be grabbed by a policeman for no offence?

Central American Affairs

  • Date: 2 December 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In Panama, the writer states, the ordinary relative positions of whites and blacks are reversed.

and most of the principal authorities of the place are black, and they mete out less justice to a white

Political parties in Panama and indeed in the whole State are divided into the whites and blacks, and

Plotting for the Succession

  • Date: December 5, 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

busily engaged in pipe-laying and plotting for the succession to that goal of their ambition, the White

The Herald Editor and the President

  • Date: 14 December 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

writer mentions that when at the capital a few days ago, Bennett dined, by special invitation, at the White

New Publications

  • Date: 16 December 1857
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

We see in the “Poet Laureate’s” department the arm— “Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful,” raising

The Chinese

  • Date: 12 February 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

into the needle, pushed the board against the plane, instead of the plane against the board; wore white

Right for Once

  • Date: 17 February 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— The Herald of this morning has, strange to say, the magnanimity to declare that “William C.

New Publications

  • Date: 6 March 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary and part of Central Asia, by Thomas William

[Among the Supervisors elect of]

  • Date: 3 April 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Supervisors elect of] ☞Among the Supervisors elect of Westchester Co., we notice the name of our friend William

Whipping the Devil Round the Stump

  • Date: 24 April 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Give us one thing or the other, gentlemen—black, if you will, or white if you will—but not the mulatto

The Speech-Making Season

  • Date: 6 May 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

sees a slim, lank gentleman, with a suit of black, evidently made by a country tailor, and wearing a white

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