Whitman Archive Title: "Summer Duck"
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00158
Series: Notes and Notebooks
Box: 39
Folder: Literary, Before 1855, Wood Drake
Date: Between 1852 and 1855
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
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Content: These pages were written by Whitman in the early to mid-1850s. William White described the pages as "torn from a tall notebook" (Daybooks and Notebooks [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 770–773). White noted a possible relationship between the opening words and the first poem of the 1855 edition, eventually titled "Song of Myself." The lines at the end of this manuscript were also reworked and used for a different section of the same poem. For further discussion of the dating and importance of this notebook, see Matt Miller, Collage of Myself: Walt Whitman and the Making of Leaves of Grass (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010), 26–29.

Whitman Archive Title: 1645–6
Whitman Archive ID: loc.06010
Series: Oversize
Box: OV 11
Folder: 1888, "Elias Hicks"
Date: about 1888
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: These notes are based on Whitman's reading of the third volume of George L. Craik and Charles Macfarlane's The Pictorial History of England (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848). He incorporated some of this information into his essay "Notes (such as they are) founded on Elias Hicks," which was first published in November Boughs (1888) and later reprinted in Complete Prose Works (1892). Whitman planned to write an essay about Elias Hicks for many years. While finishing preparations for the printing of November Boughs, Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were written as many as thirty years ago. Some of them I have written within the past year. They are a miscellaneous lot but they all belong in the same stream." (See Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, 2: 42.) The present manuscript is stored together with many other manuscripts on the topics of Elias Hicks and Quakerism. Those that directly contributed to the published essay are described separately. Those whose relationship to the published essay are unclear are not included at this stage of our work.

Whitman Archive Title: 51st New York Veterans
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00929
Series: Literary File
Box: 32
Folder: 1864, Oct. 29, "Fifty-First New York Veterans," New York Times, Manuscript draft
Date: 1864
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A partial draft of "Fifty-first New-York City Veterans," which appeared in the 29 October 1864 issue of the New-York Times. The verso of this draft includes snippets of prose, some of which Whitman included in various Civil War writings. The "Case of Catholic priest & altar &c at side of dying Irish boy" was included in Memoranda During the War (1876). The notes on female nurses during the war were used in "Female Nurses for Soldiers," first published under the heading, "A Few Words about Female Nurses for Soldiers," in "The Soldiers," New-York Times (6 March 1865). This prose piece was reprinted in both Memoranda During the War (1876) and Specimen Days & Collect (1882).

Whitman Archive Title: 9th av.
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00354
Series: Notes and Notebooks
Box: 38
Folder: Undated Thoughts, Ideas, and Trial lines (3 V.)
Date: between 1854 and 1860
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 45 leaves, handwritten
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Content: An early notebook Whitman used for various purposes. William White, in his edition of Whitman's Daybooks and Notebooks (New York: New York University Press, 1978. 3 vols.), noted a relationship between rough drafts of poems in this notebook (called "An Early Notebook" in White's edition) and the 1860 poem eventually titled "Starting from Paumanok." On surface 54 is a passage that seems to have contributed to the 1860 poem that became "Song at Sunset." On surface 85 is a passage that perhaps contributed to the 1855 poem later titled "Song of Myself," and a passage on surface 62 might have been used in the 1856 poem eventually titled "Miracles." Because Whitman wrote entries from both ends of the notebook, the writing on about half of the leaves is upside-down in relation to other leaves. Some leaves have become disbound, and their original positions are uncertain. Our ordering is based on the earliest known transcription, done by Fredson Bowers in 1955.

Whitman Archive Title: ? Last Words
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00212
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: Last Words (1889). A.MS. drafts.
Date: about 1889
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Draft of an unpublished poem which was also titled, in other manuscript drafts, "The last" and "Recapitulation." The draft was written on the back of a letter from D. H. Kenaga, dated April 9, 1889.

Whitman Archive Title: ?Some Hours of a half Paralytic
Whitman Archive ID: loc.03275
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: Supplement Hours. A.MS. drafts.
Date: about 1881
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Draft and trial lines of a poem unpublished in Whitman's lifetime, though published posthumously as "Supplement Hours." The poem was part of a cluster entitled "Old Age Echoes," included in an edition of Leaves of Grass compiled by Whitman's literary executors and published in 1897 (Boston: Small, Maynard).

Whitman Archive Title: A Book of "Contemporaneous Notes."
Whitman Archive ID: loc.01035
Series: Literary File
Box: 36
Folder: Undated, "Notes on Richard M. Bucke's Book," draft
Date: 1881
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A draft notice describing Richard M. Bucke's plans to publish a book titled, Contemporaneous Notes of Walt Whitman. This notice appeared unsigned in the 2 November 1881 issue of the Boston Evening Transcript under the heading, "Personal."

Whitman Archive Title: A Christmas Greeting
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00007
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: A Christmas Greeting (1889). A.MS. drafts.
Date: about 1889
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 20 x 23.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: This manuscript of "A Christmas Greeting" was apparently intended for the printer, as there are few alterations. In right hand corner is notation in red: "if convenient let me have proof by noon." In left hand corner (in pencil) is the name "Horace Traubel." The poem was first published in 1889.

Whitman Archive Title: A Christmas Greeting
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00010
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: A Christmas Greeting (1889). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1889
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 13.5 x 18.5 cm, printed, handwritten
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Content: A proof of "A Christmas Greeting" with several corrections.

Whitman Archive Title: A Christmas Greeting
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00011
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: A Christmas Greeting (1889). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1889
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 13.5 x 18.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: A proof with three emendations and a notation by Horace Traubel: "See notes 1/29/90."

Whitman Archive Title: A Clear Midnight
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00062
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: A Clear Midnight (1881). A.MS. Draft.
Date: about 1880
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 19.5 x 14.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: A draft of "A Clear Midnight," written on the back of a letter from "A. Williams" dated December 2, 1880. The poem was first published in 1881.

Whitman Archive Title: A Death-Bouquet
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00187
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: A Death-Bouquet (1890). A.MS. draft.
Date: about 1890
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 25 x 19.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: A five-line draft of a poem, entitled "A Death-Bouquet," which was never published and has an unknown relationship to Whitman's published work. A subtitle reads "Fresh pick'd noon time early January, 1890, By Walt Whitman." These lines bear some relation to Whitman's brief essay of the same name.

Whitman Archive Title: A Kiss to the Bride
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00207
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: A Kiss to the Bride (May 21, 1874?). Printed Copy.
Date: May, 1874
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12.5 x 10 cm, handwritten
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Content: A clipped copy of the poem "A Kiss to the Bride" pasted on a larger sheet with a note in Whitman's hand reading, "Marriage of Nelly Grant, (Mrs. Sartoris) the President's daughter, May 2nd, 1874." The poem was first published in the New York Daily Graphic, May 21, 1874. This clipping appears to be from the poem's reprinting, two days later, in the same newspaper.

Whitman Archive Title: A Riddle Song
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00015
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: A Riddle Song (1881). A.MS. drafts.
Date: 1880
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 22 x 12 cm, handwritten
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Content: A draft of the first five lines of "A Riddle Song," first published in 1880. The draft is written in ink on a surface made by pasting three smaller pieces together. Another small fourth scrap is pasted to the opposite side.

Whitman Archive Title: A Riddle Song
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00290
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: A Riddle Song (1881). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1880
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, printed, handwritten
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Content: Proof sheet of "A Riddle Song," first published in 1880, with corrections in Whitman's hand.

Whitman Archive Title: A Sermon Preached in the Central Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, Brooklyn, on Sabbath Morning, the 27th Day of July, 1851
Whitman Archive ID: loc.03784
Series: Miscellany
Box: 48
Folder: 13
Date: 1851 and about 1862
Genre: prose
Physical Description: , handwritten, printed
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Content: Whitman's copy of this booklet, published in 1851, with handwritten annotations on several pages. The longest of these notes, which appears on p. 2 of the appendix, constitutes a draft of a passage that Whitman incorporated into the ninth number of his "Brooklyniana" series, which was published in the Brooklyn Standard on February 1, 1862. Only those pages bearing Whitman's annotations are currently linked from this record.

Whitman Archive Title: A Thought of Columbus
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00328
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: A Thought of Columbus (1892). A.MS. drafts.
Date: 1892
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A complete draft of "A Thought of Columbus" written on two long strips of various fragments pasted together and three smaller pieces. According to Horace Traubel, this was the last poem Whitman wrote. It was published first in 1892.

Whitman Archive Title: A Thought of Columbus
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00333
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: A Thought of Columbus (1892). A.MS. drafts.
Date: about 1892
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A draft of lines for "A Thought of Columbus." According to Horace Traubel, this was the last poem Whitman wrote. It was published first in 1892.

Whitman Archive Title: A Twilight Song
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00318
Series: Literary File
Box: 30
Folder: A Twilight Song (1890). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1890
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 20.25 x 18.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: Proof of "A Twilight Song," which was first published in 1890, with corrections in Whitman's hand and with notes from both Whitman and the printer.

Whitman Archive Title: A Twilight Song
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00351
Series: Literary File
Box: 30
Folder: A Twilight Song (1890). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1890
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 20.25 x 18.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: Proof of "A Twilight Song," which was first published in 1890, with notes in Whitman's hand.

Whitman Archive Title: A Twilight Song
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00352
Series: Literary File
Box: 30
Folder: A Twilight Song (1890). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1890
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 20.25 x 18.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: Proof of "A Twilight Song," which was first published in 1890, with a note in Whitman's hand.

Whitman Archive Title: After All, Not to Create Only
Whitman Archive ID: loc.05680
Series: Literary File
Box: 25
Folder: After All, Not to Create Only (1871). Proof Sheets
Date: about 1871
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: both 11 leaves, handwritten
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Content: Proof sheets printed by Pearson, Washington. Whitman made only one correction (see surface 11). "After All, Not to Create Only" was first published in 1871. It was later revised and the title was changed to "Song of the Exposition."

Whitman Archive Title: After Twenty Years
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00176
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: After Twenty Years (1888). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1888
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 18.5 x 15.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: Written in ink at the top of a proof of "After Twenty Years," are six words: "From the English Magazine of Art." This poem was published under the title "Twenty Years" in 1888.

Whitman Archive Title: After all, not to create only
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00382
Series: Literary File
Box: 25
Folder: After All, Not to Create Only (1871). Manuscript Drafts and Notes.
Date: about 1871
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 30 leaves, largest 25 x 20 cm, handwritten
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Content: Bound manuscript of "After all, not to create only." Although the manuscript contains many revisions, it appears to be relatively near the final draft. Whitman wrote this poem following a request by the Committee on Invitations of the American Institute to deliver an original poem at the opening of the Fortieth Annual Exhibition. "After All, Not to Create Only" was first published in 1871. It was later revised and the title changed to "Song of the Exposition."

Whitman Archive Title: After the Argument
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00001
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: After the Argument (1891). A.MS.S. draft
Date: 1890 or 1891
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 9.5 x 21.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: A draft of "After the Argument." The poem was published first in Lippincott's Magazine, March, 1891.

Whitman Archive Title: After the Dazzle of Day
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00002
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: After the Dazzle of Day (1888). A.MS. draft
Date: 1887 or 1888
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 14 x 14.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: This four-line poem was first published in the New York Herald, February 3, 1888. In the lower right-hand corner is the notation: "For Francis Howard Williams, May 1896, Traubel."

Whitman Archive Title: After the Supper and Talk
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00004
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: After the Supper and Talk (1888). A.MS. drafts
Date: between 1884 and 1888
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28 x 25.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: Signed draft of the poem "After the Supper and Talk," which was first submitted to Harper's in 1885 but was rejected. It was later published in Lippincott's Magazine in November, 1887. This manuscript draft, however, may well have been intended for neither journal because of the reference to "volume" in the bracketed note. In November Boughs (1888) Whitman used "After the Supper and Talk" as the concluding poem in the volume; it was followed by numerous prose pieces. On the reverse of this manuscript leaf is pasted a proof sheet from the poem eventually titled "Song of the Exposition," with one correction.

Whitman Archive Title: After the Supper and Talk
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00175
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: After the Supper and talk (1887). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1887
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12 x 15 cm, handwritten
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Content: A proof of "After the Supper and Talk," with corrections (all punctuation) in ink and two words written in purple pencil: "30 Copies." This poem was published first in 1887.

Whitman Archive Title: Ah, Not This Granite Dead and Cold
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00067
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: Ah, Not This Granite Dead and Cold (1885). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1885
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 24.5 x 15 cm, handwritten
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Content: Proof with Whitman's holograph corrections. Published first under this title in 1885. Later published as "Washington's Monument, February, 1885."

Whitman Archive Title: Airs of Lilac Time
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00145
Series: Notes and Notebooks
Box: 39
Folder: Literary, 1870? Airs of Lilac Time
Date: about 1870
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 4 leaves, handwritten
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Content: A bound notebook with a title page reading "Airs of Lilac Time for 1870, '71, &c" and two pages with lists of words and a few trial lines.

Whitman Archive Title: America
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00006
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: America (1888). A.MS. Draft.
Date: between 1870 and 1892
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 18.5 x 21.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: Despite the title, this manuscript does not appear to be a draft of the poem, "America," published in 1888, but it has been published separately and posthumously as "[America]" and begins "No Homer, Shakspere, Voltaire." This manuscript was likely composed in the last two decades of Whitman's career (roughly 1870-1892) when he was more apt to mention other writers explicitly in his poetry.

Whitman Archive Title: America to Old-World Bards
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00047
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: America to Old World Bards (1891). A.MS. drafts.
Date: 1890 or 1891
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 6 leaves, handwritten
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Content: Written in ink on the inside of four discarded envelopes, one letter, and a sheet made by pasting together the insides of three discarded envelopes (all sent to Whitman in September and October 1890), entitled "America to Old-World Bards: A reminiscence from reading Walter Scott," published as "Old Chants" in 1891.

Whitman Archive Title: An Old Man's Recitatives
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00230
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Old Age Recitatives (1891). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1890
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 36.5 x 19.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: Proofs of four poems pasted together and collected under the main handwritten title "An Old Man's Recitatives." The poems included are: "Ancient songs reciting" (published as "Old Chants" in 1891), "Grand is the seen" (first published in 1891), "Death dogs my steps" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891), and "For us two, reader dear," first published in 1891. A note in Whitman's hand in the right margin details failed attempts to publish this grouping in Scribner's.

Whitman Archive Title: And I say the stars
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00042
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: Song of Myself (1855). A.MS. draft.
Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Whitman probably drafted this manuscript in the early 1850s as he was composing the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass. The lines are similar to lines in the first and third poems in that edition, eventually titled "Song of Myself" and "To Think of Time." Similar draft lines also appear in "Talbot Wilson," an early notebook (loc.00141). On the verso (loc.07869) is a draft of a piece of journalism published on October 20, 1854.

Whitman Archive Title: And there is the meteor-shower
Whitman Archive ID: loc.06006
Series: Notes and Notebooks
Box: 40
Folder: The voice of Walt Whitman
Date: Between 1855 and 1860
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: One leaf made by pasting together two scraps of pink paper, probably wrappers from the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. This manuscript contains approximately four poetic lines, written and revised in ink, about the 1833 Leonid meteor shower. It is possible that these lines are related to the poem "Year of Meteors. (1859–1860)," although other than a mention of meteors and the description of them as "dazzling," the subject of the manuscript seems to have little to do with the subject of the poem, which is mostly about the portents of the Civil War. "Year of Meteors" was first published in Drum-Taps (1865). Richard Maurice Bucke's transcription of these lines in Notes and Fragments (1899) begins with another version of these lines and an additional line following them. It is possible that these lines were present on the manuscript when he made his transcription but have since been cut off, though it is also possible that Bucke combined transcriptions from separate leaves. The now-absent final line of Bucke's transcription reads, "Such have I in the round house hanging—such pictures name I—and they are but little." If indeed Whitman wrote this line as part of the present manuscript, it would connect it with the early poem "Pictures," unpublished during Whitman's lifetime. Given the use of the 1855 wrapper paper, this was likely composed between late 1855 and 1860. On the reverse side, made up of two different scraps are the trial title "Poem of the Trainer," (loc.06005) which is written in ink, and several fragmentary lines written in pencil (loc.07550), describing a whale hunt and likely related to "Song of Joys".

Whitman Archive Title: Antietam, Manassas
Whitman Archive ID: loc.01780
Series: Notes and Notebooks
Box: 41
Folder: Undated, War Notes
Date: 1870–1880
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A list of Civil War battles that includes a draft of a poetic line with no known connection to Whitman's published work.

Whitman Archive Title: As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00178
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors (1885). Printed Copy—Camden Post, May 15, 1885.
Date: May 15, 1885
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 54.5 x 36 cm, handwritten
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Content: A page of The Post, Camden, N.J., 15 May 1885. Written in pencil in the margin at the top of front page are five words in Whitman's hand: "As one by one Withdraw." The Library of Congress's description of the item mentions that page three of the newspaper includes a reprint from Harper's Weekly of "As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors"; however, only one page of the newspaper is currently in the folder. "As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors" was later published as "Death of General Grant."

Whitman Archive Title: As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00179
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors. Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1885
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 16.5 x 15 cm, handwritten
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Content: Written in pencil at the bottom of a proof of "As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors," a thirteen-line poem on President Grant's death, with a printed signature, four words: "Harper's Weekly, May 16." On the verso in another hand is "tr Nov 20 1885." Pasted on the verso is a small piece of paper, 5.25 x 10.75 cm, on which is written: "This fragment of Whitman's, Mr. (John) Burroughs sent me recently, with a lot of old papers & letters. As it has a memorandum in WW's hand, I know you will like to have it. C(lara).B(arrus)." This poem, published first in 1885, was also published as "Death of General Grant."

Whitman Archive Title: As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00180
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors. Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1885
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Signed proof of the thirteen-line poem, "As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors," first published in 1885, later published as "Death of General Grant."

Whitman Archive Title: As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00492
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors. Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1885
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Annotated proof of the thirteen-line poem, "As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors," first published in 1885, later published as "Death of General Grant." This proof includes a notation suggesting the printed signature be moved to the left and that three words, "in Harper's Weekly," be inserted.

Whitman Archive Title: As in a Swoon
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00177
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: As In A Swoon. Proof.
Date: about 1876
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 6.5 x 12.5 cm, printed, handwritten
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Content: A proof pasted on another sheet of paper, with seven words in Whitman's hand: "Walt Whitman, (discarded from last booklet.)" "As in a Swoon" was published first in 1876.

Whitman Archive Title: As the Greek's Signal Flame
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00493
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: As The Greek's Signal Flame (1887). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1887
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12 x 15.25 cm, printed, handwritten
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Content: At the top of a proof of "As the Greek's Signal Flame" are nine words: "If convenient put in paper of Saturday Dec. 17."

Whitman Archive Title: Ashes of heroes
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00054
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: Beat! Beat! Drums! (1861). A. MS. draft.
Date: about 1870-1871
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
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Content: Draft of lines which bear a relationship to "Ashes of Soldiers," first published in 1865. This manuscript was likely composed around 1870-1871, when Whitman was revising and expanding the poem for republication. This manuscript appears to be a draft of the first two linegroups of "Ashes of Soldiers." These linegroups were added in 1871 to a poem first published as "Hymn of Dead Soldiers" in Drum-Taps (1865). It was only in 1871 that he added the imagery of ashes to this poem.

Whitman Archive Title: Ashes of Roses
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00050
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: Ashes of Roses. A.MS. drafts and notes.
Date: between 1868 and 1871
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 2 leaves, 23.5 x 13.5 and 10 x 13.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: Poem draft, parts of which have been printed as "? Ashes of Roses." The manuscript may bear a relationship to "Ashes of Soldiers," a poem published first in 1865 as "Hymn of Dead Soldiers" in Drum-Taps. It was only in 1871 that Whitman added the imagery of ashes to this poem. The manuscript was likely composed around 1870-1871, when Whitman was revising and expanding the poem for republication. Alternatively, the manuscript may be a draft of a unique poetic work unpublished in Whitman's lifetime.

Whitman Archive Title: Autumn Rivulets
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00181
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: Autumn Rivulets (1881). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1881
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A proof of "As Consequent, Etc.," with cancelled title. This proof is housed at the Library of Congress with another, similarly marked, proof of "As Consequent, Etc." (Whitman Archive ID: loc.00494) and unmarked proofs of the following poems: "From Far Dakota's Cañons," "A Farm Picture," "What Best I See on Thee" (U.S. Grant), "The Sobbing of the Bells," "Italian Music in Dakota," "By Broad Potomac's Shore," "Excelsior," "With All thy Gifts," "To Rich Givers," "The Dalliance of the Eagles," "Tears," "After the Sea-Ship," "Aboard at a Ship's Helm," and "Thick-Sprinkled Bunting." "As Consequent, Etc." was published first in 1881.

Whitman Archive Title: Autumn Rivulets
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00494
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: Autumn Rivulets (1881). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1881
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A proof of "As Consequent, Etc.," with cancelled title. This proof is housed at the Library of Congress with another, similarly marked, proof of "As Consequent, Etc." (Whitman Archive ID: loc.00181) and unmarked proofs of the following poems: "From Far Dakota's Cañons," "A Farm Picture," "What Best I See on Thee" (U.S. Grant), "The Sobbing of the Bells," "Italian Music in Dakota," "By Broad Potomac's Shore," "Excelsior," "With All thy Gifts," "To Rich Givers," "The Dalliance of the Eagles," "Tears," "After the Sea-Ship," "Aboard at a Ship's Helm," and "Thick-Sprinkled Bunting." "As Consequent, Etc." was published first in 1881.

Whitman Archive Title: Aye, well I know 'tis ghastly to descend
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00107
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: Death's Valley (1889). A.MS. drafts and printed copies.
Date: about 1889
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Eight lines evidently written originally as part of "Death's Valley," which was published first in Harper's New Monthly Magazine in 1892. The stanza later was slightly revised and published as "On the Same Picture" (the title was probably supplied by Traubel) in 1897.

Whitman Archive Title: Beat! beat! drums!
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00051
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: Beat! Beat! Drums! (1861). A. MS. draft.
Date: 1861
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: This manuscript is a draft of the first stanza of the poem "Beat! Beat! Drums!" The poem was first published simultaneously in both Harper's Weekly and the New York Leader on September 28, 1861. On the reverse (loc.07461) are poetic lines on the death of Abraham Lincoln.

Whitman Archive Title: Behind this Mask
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00251
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Out from Behind This Mask (1876). A.MS. draft.
Date: between 1873-1876
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
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Content: Notes and trial lines for the poem "Out From Behind This Mask," first published in 1876, written on the verso of a letter to Whitman from Minnie Vincent, dated Utica, New York, December 11, 1873, asking for an autograph).

Whitman Archive Title: Bravo, Paris Exhibition!
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00056
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: Bravo, Paris Exposition! (1889). A.MS. drafts.
Date: about 1889
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 27.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: A draft of the poem published as "Bravo, Paris Exposition!" in 1889, with a diagonal line striking through the entire page.

Whitman Archive Title: Bravo, Paris Exhibition!
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00057
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: Bravo, Paris Exposition! (1889). A.MS. drafts.
Date: about 1889
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 27.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: Signed draft of a poem with a variation in line 1 from the printed version. On the verso, written in pencil: "Can you use this? Put it under the "Personal" head like you did a year ago? "The price is $10, which please send me by mail here." In ink is the start of another sentence: "If you don't want it." The poem was published under the title "Bravo, Paris Exposition!" in 1889.

Whitman Archive Title: Bravo, Paris Exposition!
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00058
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: Bravo, Paris Exposition! (1889). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1889
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 11.5 x 15 cm, handwritten
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Content: A proof sheet of "Bravo, Paris Exposition!" with corrections in Whitman's hand. "Bravo, Paris Exposition!" was published in 1889.

Whitman Archive Title: Bravo, Paris Exposition!
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00059
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: Bravo, Paris Exposition! (1889). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1889
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 11.5 x 15 cm, handwritten
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Content: A proof sheet of "Bravo, Paris Exposition!" with corrections in Whitman's hand. "Bravo, Paris Exposition!" was published in 1889.

Whitman Archive Title: Bravo, Paris Exposition!
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00060
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: Bravo, Paris Exposition! (1889). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1889
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 11.5 x 15 cm, handwritten
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Content: A proof sheet of "Bravo, Paris Exposition!" with corrections in Whitman's hand. At the top is a note reading "See notes, Oct 31, '89." "Bravo, Paris Exposition!" was published in 1889.

Whitman Archive Title: Bravo, Paris Exposition!
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00061
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: Bravo, Paris Exposition! (1889). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1889
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A proof sheet of "Bravo, Paris Exposition!" with corrections in Whitman's hand. At the top is a note in Traubel's hand: "Rec'd from W.W. Sept 30, '89". "Bravo, Paris Exposition!" was published in 1889.

Whitman Archive Title: Brooklyn theatres
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04742
Series: Notes and Notebooks
Date: about 1862
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Two paragraphs, lightly corrected, about the first theater building in Brooklyn. Whitman used this material in the eighth installment of "Brooklyniana; A Series of Local Articles, on Past and Present." This series was published in the Brooklyn Standard between June 3, 1861 and November 1, 1862. "Brooklyniana, No. 8" appeared on January 25, 1862.

Whitman Archive Title: But when a voice in our hearing
Whitman Archive ID: loc.01018
Series: Literary File
Box: 32
Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: This manuscript discusses the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and issues of state sovereignty. It was probably written not long after the law's passage, likely between 1850 and 1855.

Whitman Archive Title: By Thine Own Lips, O Sea
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00012
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: By Thine Own Lips, O Sea (1883). A.MS. draft.
Date: about 1884
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 26 x 20.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: An early draft of "With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!" The poem was published in Harper's Monthly, March, 1884,

Whitman Archive Title: By day the distant
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00009
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: By Day the Distant Shadowy Sails (1883). A.MS. draft.
Date: October, 1883
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 17 x 15 cm, handwritten
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Content: Lines that likely constitute an early draft of "With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!" This poem was published first in Harper's Monthly Magazine, March, 1884.

Whitman Archive Title: Certainties, Faith, Counterbalances, Alternation
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00075
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: Certainties, Faith, Counterbalances, Alternation. A.MS. draft.
Date: about 1887 or 1888
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 25 x 20 cm, handwritten
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Content: Written in ink on the back of a discarded letter (cancelled by a diagonal strike) from Talcott Williams, this draft appears to be trial lines for the poem later published as "Continuities" in the New York Herald, March 20, 1888.

Whitman Archive Title: Citizens took by mutual agreement
Whitman Archive ID: loc.05704
Series: Notes and Notebooks
Box: 38
Folder: Brooklyniana, n.d.
Date: Between 1853 and 1855
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A scrap of prose discussing the building of sidewalks in Brooklyn. The writing has no known connection to Whitman's published work. The leaf originally was part of a larger notebook (loc.00024) that probably dates to between 1853 and 1855. The cancelled lines on the back of this leaf (loc.05705) were revised and used in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. Since the poetic lines have been crossed out and the prose has not, it's likely that the prose was written later, but likely not much later, based on the similarity of the handwriting. Therefore, this manuscript was likely written around 1855.

Whitman Archive Title: Cluster of Sonnet Poems
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00172
Series: Notes and Notebooks
Box: 40
Folder: Literary, Undated, These Days
Date: undated
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
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Content: Notes for a "Cluster of Sonnet Poems" about the "splendor and copiousness of These Days."

Whitman Archive Title: Columbus
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00335
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: A Thought of Columbus (1892). A.MS. drafts.
Date: 1892
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A brown envelope that Horace Traubel said contained the manuscript of "A Thought of Columbus" that Whitman gave him shortly before he died in 1892.

Whitman Archive Title: Columbus Prayer (ad 1503)
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00270
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Prayer of Columbus (1874). A.MS. draft and notes.
Date: about 1874
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Notes on the title of the poem that became "Prayer of Columbus," first published in 1874.

Whitman Archive Title: Columbus Prayers (ad 1503)
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00271
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Prayer of Columbus (1874). A.MS. draft and notes.
Date: about 1874
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A draft of lines from "Prayer of Columbus," first published in 1874. On the verso is prose concerning "Nationality" and "Cohesion."

Whitman Archive Title: Come, Muse, migrate from Greece and Ionia
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00383
Series: Literary File
Box: 25
Folder: After All, Not to Create Only (1871). Manuscript Drafts and Notes.
Date: about 1871
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 10 leaves, largest 25 x 20 cm, handwritten
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Content: A relatively clean draft titled "Come, Muse, migrate from Greece and Ionia." This material was later incorporated into "After All, Not to Create Only," first published in 1871. That poem was later revised and title changed to "Song of the Exposition."

Whitman Archive Title: Come, Muse, migrate from Greece and Ionia
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00380
Series: Literary File
Box: 25
Folder: After All, Not to Create Only (1871). Manuscript Drafts and Notes.
Date: about 1871
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 4 leaves, handwritten
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Content: Four pages of lines later revised and included in "After All, Not to Create Only," first published 1871. That poem was later revised and the title changed to "Song of the Exposition."

Whitman Archive Title: Come, Said My Soul
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00183
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: Come, said my Soul… Proof with signature.
Date: 1881
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Signed proof page with no annotations. On verso reads "Copyright 1881, By Walt Whitman, All rights reserved"

Whitman Archive Title: Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00044
Series: Literary File
Box: 19
Folder: Complete Poems and Prose (1888), Manuscript drafts, Title page
Date: about 1888
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A mock title page for Complete Poems & Prose of Walt Whitman, 1855–1888 Authenticated & Personal Book (handled by W.W.) Portraits from Life...Autograph (1888).

Whitman Archive Title: Death Dogs My Steps
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00120
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: Death Dogs My Steps (1890). A.MS. draft.
Date: about March 3, 1890
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12 x 19 cm, handwritten
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Content: Draft of "Death Dogs My Steps" written in ink on the inside of a discarded and opened out envelope, addressed to Whitman from England, mailed in London February 21, 1890 and postmarked received in Camden March 3, 1890. The three lines later appeared as part of "L. of G.'s Purport," first published in 1891.

Whitman Archive Title: Death's Valley
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00189
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: Death's Valley (1889). A.MS. drafts and printed copies.
Date: about 1889
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 4 leaves, handwritten
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Content: A heavily marked-up draft of "Death's Valley," a poem requested by Harper's Magazine and submitted in 1889, but not published until 1892.

Whitman Archive Title: Diary in Canada
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00151
Series: Diaries, Diary Notes, and Address Books
Box: 2
Folder: June-Aug. 1880. Diary in Canada Vol. II.
Date: 1880
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: , handwritten
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Content: Whitman's diary from his trip to Canada in 1880. William White, in his edition of Whitman's Daybooks and Notebooks, noted a relationship between material in this notebook and the poem "The Pilot in the Mist."

Whitman Archive Title: Down, down, proud gorge
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00192
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: Down, Down, Proud Gorge. A.MS. draft.
Date: about 1889
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28 x 21.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: A draft of a poem titled "Down, down, proud gorge." At the bottom of the same leaf is another draft of a poem entitled "Are they last words?" These drafts were later greatly revised and combined when published in 1889 with the title "To the Year 1889," later re-titled "To the Pending Year."

Whitman Archive Title: Ebb and Flood Tides
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00195
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: Ebb and Flood Tides A.MS. draft.
Date: undated
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 15 x 24.25 cm, handwritten
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Content: An unpublished poem written in ink on a pale tan piece of paper, heavily corrected.

Whitman Archive Title: Entering a long farm-lane
Whitman Archive ID: loc.01030
Series: Literary File
Box: 36
Folder: Undated, "A Long Farm-Lane," draft
Date: about 1882
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
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Content: A draft of "Entering a Long Farm-Lane," which first appeared in Specimen Days & Collect (1882) before being collected in Complete Prose Works (1892).

Whitman Archive Title: Fancies at Navesink
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00327
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: Fancies at Navesink (1885). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1885
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 48 x 15 cm, handwritten
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Content: An oversized proof of "Fancies at Navesink," a group of poems first published in 1885. The poems in this cluster are: "The Pilot in the Mist," "Had I the Choice," "You Tides with Ceaseless Swell," "Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning," "Proudly the Flood Comes In," "By That Long Scan of Waves," and "Then Last of All." In this proof, the poems "Last of Ebb, and Daylight Waning" and "And Yet Not You Alone" are not separated, and "And Yet Not You Alone" appears as the final stanza of the first poem. This proof is grouped with two others at the Library of Congress. The proofs have no editorial corrections, but one (pictured here) is signed by Whitman and another contains a note in another hand reading, "from the papers of Walt Whitman given to Mosher by Traubel 1906."

Whitman Archive Title: For Queen Victoria's Birthday
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00198
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: For Queen Victoria's Birthday (1890). Proof Sheets
Date: about 1890
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 24 x 15 cm, printed, handwritten
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Content: Proof of "For Queen Victoria's Birthday," with correction and note in Whitman's hand. This item is grouped with another proof at the Library of Congress, which includes no annotations in Whitman's hand but features a notation by Horace Traubel at the bottom.

Whitman Archive Title: Free cider
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00156
Series: Notes and Notebooks
Box: 38
Folder: Brooklyniana, Undated, Free cider and Long Island character.
Date: Between 1850 and 1860
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: This manuscript contains prose notes about Long Island, potentially related to a piece of journalism that Whitman was considering writing, although the notes contain no known connections to any of his published work. Written at the bottom of the notes are two lines of poetry. The manuscript is written in pencil on both sides of a narrow strip of lined paper, cut from a larger sheet. This manuscript was probably written between 1850 and 1860.

Whitman Archive Title: From My Last Years
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00199
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: From My Last Years (1876). A.MS. draft.
Date: about 1876
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 23.75 x 13.75 cm, handwritten
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Content: A draft of "From My Last Years" written in ink on a sheet of stationery, with three lines crossed out with a blue pencil and one of the corrections in blue pencil. "From My Last Years" was published only once, in Two Rivulets, 1876.

Whitman Archive Title: From My Last Years
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04092
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: From My Last Years (1876). Printed Copies
Date: about 1876
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 5 x 13.25 cm, handwritten
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Content: Written in pencil on a scrap of paper cut from the bottom of a larger sheet to which has been attached a clipping of the poem, "From My Last Years," with corrections in the margin. The poem was published only in Two Rivulets, 1876, without these corrections.

Whitman Archive Title: From the tips of his
Whitman Archive ID: loc.05705
Series: Notes and Notebooks
Box: 38
Folder: Notes & Nbks Brooklyniana Fulton St
Date: Between 1853 and 1855
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: This manuscript was probably written between 1853 and 1855, while Whitman was working on the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass. Versions of these cancelled and fragmentary lines were used in the first poem in that edition, eventually titled "Song of Myself."

Whitman Archive Title: Future writing about the war
Whitman Archive ID: loc.01770
Series: Notes and Notebooks
Box: 39
Folder: 1847-1869, F
Date: about 1873
Genre: prose, poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Manuscript note in which Whitman seems to be considering the best ways to refer to the two sides in the U.S. Civil War. Though Whitman did, in fact, frequently use the term "Secesh" to refer to the South, he did not habitually apply the corresponding term C"Nationals") to the North. The reverside side of the leaf contains a short letter to Abby Price in which Whitman states that he has a "bad spell," perhaps a reference to his stroke in 1873.

Whitman Archive Title: Go forth, ye twain
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00069
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: On, On the Same, Ye Jocund Twain! (1891). A.MS. drafts.
Date: about 1890
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten
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Content: An early draft of "On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!," which was published first in 1891. The draft is written on a letter from Albert Johannsen (dated March 22, 1890), and two opened envelopes (one postmarked April 27, 1890).

Whitman Archive Title: Go forth, ye twain
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00072
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: On, On the Same, Ye Jocund Twain! (1891). A.MS. drafts.
Date: about 1890
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A draft of "On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!," which was published first in 1891. On the verso is a note in Whitman's hand reading "to my 2d & last Annex for L of G."

Whitman Archive Title: Going Somewhere
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00201
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: Going Somewhere (1887). Proof Sheets
Date: about 1887
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 15 x 16 cm, 15.5 x 15 cm, handwritten
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Content: Proof of "'Going Somewhere,'" first published in 1887. This proof has corrections and a note in Whitman's hand.

Whitman Archive Title: Good-Bye My Fancy
Whitman Archive ID: loc.05454
Series: Literary File
Box: OV 2
Folder: Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), Manuscript draft
Date: about 1891
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 78 leaves, handwritten, typed
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Content: This manuscripts contains 78 pages of text numbered by Whitman, and is housed along with other materials related to Good-Bye My Fancy. To assemble the manuscript for the printer Whitman used proof sheets, newspaper clippings, etc., between manuscript pages, which were written mostly on paper fragments. "A Death Bouquet" was written on a typewriter and inserted as part of the manuscript. Throughout, innumerable changes, corrections, and directions for the printer appear. The poems included are: "Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht!," "Lingering Last Drops," "Good-bye My Fancy," "On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!," "My 71st Year," "Apparitions," "The Pallid Wreath," "An Ended Day," "Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's," "To the Pending Year" (earlier title "To the Year 1889" crossed out), "Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher," "Long, Long Hence" (earlier title "Under These Poemets" crossed out), "Bravo, Paris Exposition!" (earlier title "Bravo, Paris Exhibition!" crossed out), "Interpolation Sounds," "To the Sun-Set Breeze," "Old Chants," "A Christmas Greeting," "Sounds of the Winter," "A Twilight Song," "When the Full-grown Poet Came," "Osceola," "A Voice from Death," "A Persian Lesson," "The Commonplace," "'The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete,'" "Mirages," "L. of G.'s Purport" (which includes three poems originally composed separately, "My task," "Death dogs my steps," and "For us two, reader dear"), "The Unexpress'd," "Grand is the Seen," "Unseen Buds," "Good-bye My Fancy!," "For Queen Victoria's Birthday," "Death's Valley," "After an Interval," "As in a Swoon," "L. of G.," and "After the Argument." Also included are several prose pieces. Also in this folder are a wrapper addressed to "Ferguson Bros. & Co; Printers, Phila.," two statements by Ferguson Bros. to Whitman, a statement dated May 18, 1891, by Grosscup and West, Phila. for the plates of Whitman's portrait to be included in the book (they had been ordered by Traubel), two trial title pages, and a proof portrait from the engraver.

Whitman Archive Title: Good-Bye My Fancy
Whitman Archive ID: loc.05452
Series: Literary File
Box: OV 2
Folder: Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), Manuscript draft
Date: about 1891
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: about 10 leaves, handwritten, printed
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Content: Manuscript and corrected print material that was included in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).

Whitman Archive Title: Good-Bye My Fancy
Whitman Archive ID: loc.05458
Series: Literary File
Date: 1891
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 14 leaves, printed, handwritten
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Content: Manuscript and corrected print material that was included in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891). Some leaves are composed of various scraps of paper, including envelopes and pieces of correspondence that have been pasted together to make larger leaves (see images 15 through 20).

Whitman Archive Title: Hendrik Hudson
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00952
Series: Literary File
Box: 35
Folder: "Brooklyniana: History of Brooklyn and Long Island," drafts and notes
Date: 1855–1861
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Notes on Hendrick Hudson that appear to have contributed to "Brooklyniana: A Series of Local Articles, on Past and Present. No. 2," Daily Standard (5 June 1861).

Whitman Archive Title: Hicks (1748–1830)
Whitman Archive ID: loc.03677
Series: Notes and Notebooks
Date: about 1888
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Notes on the life dates of various famous figures. Whitman used this information for "Notes (such as they are) founded on Elias Hicks," an essay that was first published in November Boughs (1888) and later reprinted in Complete Prose Works (1892). The fragmentary names at the top of the list are those of Thomas Jefferson and Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. Whitman planned to write an essay about Elias Hicks for many years. While finishing preparations for the printing of November Boughs, Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were written as many as thirty years ago. Some of them I have written within the past year. They are a miscellaneous lot but they all belong in the same stream." (See Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, 2: 42.) The present manuscript is stored together with many other manuscripts on the topics of Elias Hicks and Quakerism. Those that directly contributed to the published essay are described separately. Those whose relationship to the published essay are unclear are not included at this stage of our work.

Whitman Archive Title: Hist Brooklyn
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00963
Series: Literary File
Box: 35
Folder: "Brooklyniana: History of Brooklyn and Long Island," drafts and notes
Date: about 1862
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: There is no known connection between the recto of this manuscript—treating Washington's visit to Brooklyn in the 1790s—and Whitman's published work. The verso of this manuscript contains cancelled notes on the establishment of the Hudson Avenue Hospital in the mid-1840s. Whitman wrote about the Hudson Avenue Hospital in "Brooklyniana. A Series of Local Articles, on Past and Present. No. 16," which appeared in the 29 March 1862 issue of the Brooklyn Standard. Though there are no direct textual links between the two, it is likely that these notes contributed to this piece of journalism.

Whitman Archive Title: Hospital book 12
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04695
Series: Diaries, Diary Notes, and Address Books
Box: 1
Folder: Diaries, 1863–1864, hospital notebooks, (2 vols.)
Date: 1864
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 40 leaves, handwritten
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Content: A homemade notebook containing hospital and Civil War notes that Whitman recorded between February and May 1864. The entry which begins, "I find this in my notes" (see images 35, 36, and 38) was revised and used in "Some War Memoranda. Jotted Down at the Time," which appeared in North American Review (January 1887). This piece was reprinted in November Boughs (1888) before being collected in Complete Prose Works (1892). The entry which begins, "ah if it might prove" (see image 64) was used in Memoranda During the War (1875–1876) and again in Specimen Days & Collect (1882–1883), in a piece describing Whitman's visit to an army camp hospital in Falmouth, Virginia, in December, 1862, titled "Down at the Front." The essay was later included in Complete Prose Works (1892).

Whitman Archive Title: I Saw Old General at Bay
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00202
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: I Saw Old General at Bay (1865). A.MS. draft.
Date: about 1865
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A draft of "I Saw Old General at Bay," first published in 1865, written on two scraps pasted together to create one leaf. Part of one scrap has been lifted to show the lines written underneath.

Whitman Archive Title: If I Should Need To Name, O Western World
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04095
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: If I Should Need to Name, O Western World (1884). Printed Copy—Camden "Post," Oct. 28, 1884.
Date: October 28, 1884
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Clipped copy of "If I Should Need to Name, O Western World" from the Camden, New Jersey, Post, October 28, 1884, with a note in Whitman's hand. This poem was later published with the title "Election Day, November, 1884."

Whitman Archive Title: If I should need to name, O Western World!
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00203
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: If I Should Need to Name, O Western World (1884). A.MS. draft and printer's instructions.
Date: October 25, 1884
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten
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Content: Draft, lightly corrected, of "If I Should Need to Name, O Western World!" with a brief note containing instructions to the printer. These were probably sent to the Philadelphia Press, where, on October 26, 1884, the poem was first published. Whitman later retitled the poem "Election Day, November, 1884."

Whitman Archive Title: In his presence
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00483
Series: Notes and Notebooks
Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Genre: prose, poetry
Physical Description: 14 leaves, handwritten
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Content: Whitman probably inscribed the material in this notebook in the early 1850s as he was composing the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass. Some of Whitman's language about the poet and religion in this notebook is similar to the language and ideas used in the preface to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. Content from leaf 10 verso (see twentieth image) was revised and used in "The Sleepers," the poem eventually titled "The Sleepers," which first appeared in Leaves of Grass (1855), including the following lines: "Now the vast dusk bulk that is the whale's bulk . . . . it seems mine, / Warily, sportsman! though I lie so sleepy and sluggish, my tap is death" (1855, p. 74). The passage likely also relates to the following lines in the poem eventually titled "Song of Myself": "How the flukes splash! / How they contort rapid as lightning, with spasms and spouts of blood!" (1855, p. 48). Content from leaf 13 recto (see twenty-fifth image) may relate to other sections of the poem eventually titled "Song of Myself."

Whitman Archive Title: In writing my history of Brooklyn
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04741
Series: Notes and Notebooks
Date: about 1862
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Brief note regarding some general aspects of style that Whitman intended to employ in "Brooklyniana; A Series of Local Articles, on Past and Present," which was published in the Brooklyn Standard between June 3, 1861 and November 1, 1862.

Whitman Archive Title: Instructive, recurring back
Whitman Archive ID: loc.06084
Series: Oversize
Box: OV 11
Folder: 1888, "Elias Hicks"
Date: about 1888
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: This manuscript about the life of George Fox, written in ink with some corrections in pencil, appears to be a draft introduction for the section headed "George Fox (and Shakspere)" in the essay "Notes (such as they are) founded on Elias Hicks." This essay was first published in November Boughs (1888) and later reprinted in Complete Prose Works (1892). Whitman abandoned the approach to his topic that is suggested in the first paragraph of the manuscript, but the paragraph indicated by the pointing hand, at the bottom of the manuscript, contains the kernel of a key paragraph in the published version. Whitman planned to write an essay about Elias Hicks for many years. While finishing preparations for the printing of November Boughs, Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were written as many as thirty years ago. Some of them I have written within the past year. They are a miscellaneous lot but they all belong in the same stream." (See Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, 2: 42.) The present manuscript is stored together with many other manuscripts on the topics of Elias Hicks and Quakerism. Those that directly contributed to the published essay are described separately. Those whose relationship to the published essay are unclear are not included at this stage of our work.

Whitman Archive Title: Kentucky
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00206
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: Kentucky (1861). A.MS. draft.
Date: about 1861
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 6 leaves, 11.5 x 18.5 cm to 19.5 x 16 cm, handwritten
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Content: An unfinished poem, entitled "Kentucky," the title given three times, with "By Walt Whitman" on one of the pages (see image 3). On one of the pages is a fragment on the Mississippi River, which editors (beginning with James E. Miller, Jr.) have included as the last stanza of "Kentucky" (see image 1). On the verso of another page is a cancelled portion of a letter about Jesse Whitman's employment, from which the manuscript can be dated 1861 (see image 12).

Whitman Archive Title: Last Words
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00209
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: Last Words (1889). A.MS. drafts.
Date: about 1889
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Draft of an unpublished poem which was also titled, in other manuscript drafts, "The last" and "Recapitulation." The draft was written on the back of a letter from Josephine B. Kirtland.

Whitman Archive Title: Last words
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00210
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: Last Words (1889). A.MS. drafts.
Date: about 1889
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Draft of an unpublished poem which was also titled, in other manuscript drafts, "The last" and "Recapitulation." The draft was written on the back of a opened envelope from S. S. McClure postmarked December 8, 1889.

Whitman Archive Title: Latter-Time Hours of a half-Paralytic
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00305
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: Supplement Hours. A.MS. drafts.
Date: about 1881
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Draft and trial lines of a poem unpublished in Whitman's lifetime, though published posthumously as "Supplement Hours." The poem was part of a cluster entitled "Old Age Echoes," included in an edition of Leaves of Grass compiled by Whitman's literary executors and published in 1897 (Boston: Small, Maynard).

Whitman Archive Title: Leaves of Grass
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04749
Series: Literary File
Box: 21
Folder: L of G (1871). Page Proofs.
Date: 1871
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 22 leaves, handwritten, printed
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Content: Plate proof of the 1871 edition of Leaves of Grass with some corrections in Whitman's hand. Images of the versos are unavailable.

Whitman Archive Title: Leaves of Grass
Whitman Archive ID: loc.07054
Series: Literary File
Box: 21
Folder: L of G (1871). Plate Proofs.
Date: 1871
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten, printed
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Content: Plate proof of the 1871 edition of Leaves of Grass with a few corrections in Whitman's hand. Images of the first two versos are unavilable.

Whitman Archive Title: Life and Death
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00213
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: Life and Death (1888). A. MS. Draft.
Date: 1888
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A draft of "Life and Death," first published in the New York Herald in 1888.

Whitman Archive Title: Lincoln
Whitman Archive ID: loc.01760
Series: Literary File
Box: 37
Folder: ca. 1878–1890, "Abraham Lincoln"
Date: 1870–1874
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 6 leaves, handwritten, printed
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Content: Notes on Abraham Lincoln and the political climate leading up to the "attempted secession," including handwritten corrections of printed prose. This manuscript contributed to "Origins of Attempted Secession. Not the whole matter, but some facts worth conning to-day and any day," Specimen Days & Collect (1882–1883). "Origins of Attempted Secession" was first published as part of "'Tis But Ten Years Since [First Paper]," New York Weekly Graphic (24 January 1874). Portions of this essay were revised and used in Memoranda During the War (1875–1876) before appearing in Specimen Days & Collect. Whitman included "Origins of Attempted Secession" in Complete Prose Works (1892).

Whitman Archive Title: Lofty sirs
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00387
Series: Literary File
Box: 31
Folder: before 1855, "I Am a Born Democrat," draft
Date: Between 1840 and 1855
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Edward Grier concludes that this manuscript was likely written before 1855 because of its similarity to several of the notebooks that Whitman wrote from that period (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 6:2110). Ideas in this manuscript are similar to ideas in the first poem in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, eventually titled "Song of Myself," and lines and phrases from the manuscript appear in another manuscript that may have contributed to the poem eventually titled "Song of Myself": see "I know many beautiful things" (tex.00031.html). The tone of the statements is also consistent with Whitman's early journalistic and editorial persona. Ideas and words from this manuscript are also similar to ideas and words that appeared in the preface to the 1855 Leaves of Grass. There is also a chance this manuscript relates to language in a Whitman-authored review of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, titled "Walt Whitman and His Poems," originally published in the United States Review. An image of the reverse of this manuscript is currently unavailable.

Whitman Archive Title: Mannahatta
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00214
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: Mannahatta (1888). Newspaper Clipping.
Date: about 1888
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 20 x 14.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: A newspaper clipping of the poem "Mannahatta" on a larger page with corrections and notes in Whitman's hand. This was the second poem that title that Whitman had published (the first "Mannahatta," which begins with the words "I was asking...," first appeared in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass). This particular poem was first published in the New York Herald on February 27, 1888 and was later included in the Deathbed edition of Leaves.

Whitman Archive Title: Memoranda
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04433
Series: Notes and Notebooks
Date: about 1883
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten
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Content: Three-page draft of "The Attempted Official Suppression," a section of Part 2, Chapter 1, "History of Leaves of Grass," in Richard Maurice Bucke's 1883 biography, Walt Whitman.

Whitman Archive Title: Memories
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00215
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: Memories (1888). A.MS. draft.
Date: about 1888
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 20 x 16 cm, handwritten
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Content: A nearly final draft of the poem "Memories," first published in 1888.

Whitman Archive Title: My 71st Year
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04098
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: My 71st Year (Nov. 1889). Printed copies.
Date: November, 1889
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: , printed, handwritten
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Content: Two copies of the November, 1889 issue of The Century Magazine, (one full, one partial) which included Whitman's poem "My 71st Year." There are a few small notes, probably not in Whitman's hand, which read "Nov 1889" and "Mark Twain" (Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" is also serialized in this issue). Currently, images of only three pages of one of the copies are available (cover, table of contents, and the page on which "My 71st Year" is printed).

Whitman Archive Title: My 71st Year
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00218
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: My 71st Year (1889). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1889
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 18.75 x 20.25 cm, handwritten
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Content: A proof sheet of "My 71st Year," first published in 1889, with multiple corrections and notations in Whitman's hand. The proof is printed on the verso of a page titled "Principles of the Republican and Democratic Parties."

Whitman Archive Title: My 71st Year
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00340
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: My 71st Year (1889). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1889
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 11.5 x 15 cm, handwritten
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Content: Proof sheet of "My 71st Year" with revisions. "My 71st Year" was first published in 1889.

Whitman Archive Title: My 71st Year
Whitman Archive ID: loc.02503
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: My 71st Year (1889). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1889
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 11.5 x 15 cm, handwritten
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Content: Proof sheet of "My 71st Year" with revisions. "My 71st Year" was first published in 1889.

Whitman Archive Title: My 71st Year
Whitman Archive ID: loc.02504
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: My 71st Year (1889). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1889
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 11.5 x 15 cm, handwritten
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Content: Proof sheet of "My 71st Year" with revisions. "My 71st Year" was first published in 1889.

Whitman Archive Title: My 71st Year
Whitman Archive ID: loc.02505
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: My 71st Year (1889). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1889
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 11.5 x 15 cm, handwritten
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Content: Proof sheet of "My 71st Year" with revisions. This proof has a note by Traubel reading "see notes, Oct. 31, 1889." "My 71st Year" was first published in 1889.

Whitman Archive Title: My Captain
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00125
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: O Captain! My Captain! (1865). A.MS.drafts.
Date: about 1865
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten
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Content: Draft of the poem that would be published as "O Captain! My Captain!" in 1865, titled here "My Captain." On the verso of one page is a portion of "A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown" with a line through it.

Whitman Archive Title: My Seventieth Year
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00217
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: My 70th Year (1888). A. MS. draft.
Date: about 1888
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Draft of a poem later revised and published under the title "Queries to My Seventieth Year" in 1888.

Whitman Archive Title: My Task
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00219
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: My Task (1891). A.MS. draft.
Date: about 1891
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28 x 22 cm, handwritten
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Content: 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." All of the verses except "For us two, reader dear" were fused together and published as one poem entitled "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891.

Whitman Archive Title: Nay tell me not to-day the publish'd shame
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00222
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: Nay Tell Me Not To-Day the Publish'd Shame (Post-1878). Clipping.
Date: about 1878
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 14 x 16 cm, printed, handwritten
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Content: Clipping from the New York Daily Graphic of 5 March 1873, with handwritten corrections.

Whitman Archive Title: No doubt the efflux of the soul
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00025
Series: Notes and Notebooks
Box: 38
Folder: Undated Thoughts, Ideas, and Trial lines (3 V.)
Date: Before 1855
Genre: prose, poetry
Physical Description: 14 leaves, handwritten
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Content: This notebook consists almost entirely of prose. However, the ideas and language developed throughout the notebook can be linked to a number of poems that appeared in Leaves of Grass, including "Song of Myself," "Great are the Myths" (ultimately shortened to a few lines and titled "Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night"), "Faces," "The Sleepers," and "To Think of Time," versions of which appeared in Leaves of Grass in 1855. One manuscript passage is similar to a passage in the preface to the 1855 edition. Thus, this notebook was almost certainly written before that date. Content from the first several paragraphs of this notebook was also used slightly revised in "Song of the Open Road," first published in the 1856 edition of Leaves as "Poem of the Road."

Whitman Archive Title: Note at Beginning
Whitman Archive ID: loc.02147
Series: Oversize
Box: OV1
Folder: container 19
Date: 1888
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Manuscript of "Note at Beginning," which appeared between the title page and the table of contents of Whitman's Complete Poems & Prose in 1888. On the other side of the sheet is a deleted manuscript section from the same volume's "Note at End of Complete Poems and Prose." Neither of the pieces was reprinted during Whitman's lifetime.

Whitman Archive Title: Notes where wild bees flitting hum
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00111
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: Supplement Hours. A.MS. drafts.
Date: about 1880
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: This manuscript was likely written around 1880 as Whitman was drafting the poem "A Clear Midnight," first published in Leaves of Grass in 1881. The manuscript consists of two drafts of lines unpublished in Whitman's life, but which appeared in other manuscript drafts with lines that were published as "A Clear Midnight." The lines that appear in this manuscript were published posthumously as part of a poem titled "Supplement Hours." The poem was part of a cluster entitled "Old Age Echoes," included in an edition of Leaves of Grass compiled by Whitman's literary executors and published in 1897 (Boston: Small, Maynard).

Whitman Archive Title: November Boughs
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00031
Series: Literary File
Box: OV 4
Folder: November Boughs, Galley Proofs
Date: about 1888
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: about 14 leaves, handwritten, printed
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Content: Galley proofs of November Boughs (1888), with numerous corrections. Also included is a title page, with printing instructions in Whitman's hand.

Whitman Archive Title: November Boughs
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00032
Series: Literary File
Box: OV 4
Folder: November Boughs, Galley Proofs
Date: about 1888
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: about 21 leaves, handwritten, printed
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Content: Galley proofs of November Boughs (1888), with numerous corrections. Also included is an uncorrected title page, which seems to incorporate the changes Whitman requested on the title page in another set of corrected proofs for November Boughs; compare the title page for this set of proofs with the first image of loc.00031.

Whitman Archive Title: November Boughs
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00033
Series: Literary File
Box: OV 4
Folder: November Boughs, Galley Proofs
Date: about 1888
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten, printed
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Content: Galley proofs of November Boughs (1888), with Whitman's corrections.

Whitman Archive Title: November Boughs
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04206
Series: Literary File
Box: 30
Folder: You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me (1887). Printed Copy.
Date: 1887
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Clipping from a newspaper of four Whitman poems: "You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me," "'Going Somewhere,'" "After the Supper and Talk," and "Not Meagre Latent Boughs Alone." At the top is the title "November Boughs." At the bottom of the clipping is written, in Whitman's hand, "1887." The poems were published first in Lippincott's Magazine, November, 1887.

Whitman Archive Title: November Boughs
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00326
Series: Literary File
Box: 30
Folder: You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me (1887). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1887
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Proof of a collection of four poems ("You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me," "'Going Somewhere,'" "After the Supper and Talk," and "Not Meagre Latent Boughs Alone") under the general title "November Boughs." This proof is made by pasting together proofs of each poem in the order desired.

Whitman Archive Title: November Boughs
Whitman Archive ID: loc.02484
Series: Literary File
Box: 30
Folder: You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me (1887). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1887
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten, printed
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Content: Proofs of a collection of four poems ("You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me," "'Going Somewhere,'" "After the Supper and Talk," and "Not Meagre Latent Boughs Alone") under the general title "November Boughs."

Whitman Archive Title: Occasional Pieces of Poetry
Whitman Archive ID: loc.03449
Series: Notes and Notebooks
Date: about 1887–1888
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: about 13, printed and handwritten
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Content: Whitman's copy of John G. C. Brainard's Occasional Pieces of Poetry (1825), many pages of which bear the poet's handwriting. Whitman appears to have used the volume as a notebook of sorts, for while some of the writing seems to be related to Brainard's text most of it does not. Among the handwritten notes are several sets of ideas for poems that were never published and phrases that also appear in Whitman's personal correspondence. Some of these are phrases that Whitman inscribed in the copy of Complete Poems & Prose (1888) that he gave to Horace Traubel. On other pages are words from his letter to Anne Gilchrist of November 11, 1871. These were perhaps copied into the Brainard volume as he worked to write a poem in Gilchrist's honor, though they did not make it into "Going Somewhere," the poetic tribute that Whitman published in the November 1887 issue of Lippincott's Magazine (without individual title, but in a group of four poems collectively labelled "November Boughs"). A draft of "Going Somewhere" appears elsewhere in this volume. Also present is a draft of "The Dismantled Ship," which was first published in the New York Herald on February 23, 1888. Both poems were later included in November Boughs (1888) and in subsequent printings of Leaves of Grass. Only those pages with Whitman's handwritten notes are linked from this record. For a more complete discussion of this item, see Nicole Gray, "Walt Whitman's Marginalia as Occasional Practice," The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 107 (December 2013), 467–494.

Whitman Archive Title: Of That Blithe Throat of Thine
Whitman Archive ID: loc.02372
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: Of That Blithe Throat of Thine (1884). Proof Sheets.
Date: between 1884-1888
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: This proof is grouped with other copies of proof sheets that represent different stages of the printing. "Of That Blithe Throat of Thine" was published first in January, 1885.

Whitman Archive Title: Of That Blithe Throat of Thine
Whitman Archive ID: loc.02371
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: Of That Blithe Throat of Thine (1884). Proof Sheets.
Date: between 1884-1888
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: This proof is grouped with other copies of proof sheets that represent different stages of the printing. "Of That Blithe Throat of Thine" was published first in January, 1885.

Whitman Archive Title: Of That Blithe Throat of Thine
Whitman Archive ID: loc.02370
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: Of That Blithe Throat of Thine (1884). Proof Sheets.
Date: between 1884-1888
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: This proof is grouped with other copies of proof sheets that represent different stages of the printing. "Of That Blithe Throat of Thine" was published first in January, 1885.

Whitman Archive Title: Of That Blithe Throat of Thine
Whitman Archive ID: loc.02369
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: Of That Blithe Throat of Thine (1884). Proof Sheets.
Date: between 1884-1888
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: This proof is grouped with other copies of proof sheets that represent different stages of the printing. Whitman has also written instructions to the printer on this proof sheet. "Of That Blithe Throat of Thine" was published first in January, 1885.

Whitman Archive Title: Of That Blithe Throat of Thine
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00227
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: Of That Blithe Throat of Thine (1884). Proof Sheets.
Date: between 1884-1888
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: This proof is grouped with other copies of proof sheets that represent different stages of the printing. "Of That Blithe Throat of Thine" was published first in January, 1885.

Whitman Archive Title: Of that blithe throat of thine
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00226
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: Of That Blithe Throat of Thine (1884). A.MS. draft.
Date: about 1884
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28 x 22 cm, handwritten
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Content: Signed, late draft of "Of That Blithe Throat of Thine" which was published first in January, 1885. On the verso is a letter from Folger McKinney to Whitman dated June 10, 1884.

Whitman Archive Title: Old Age Echoes
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00228
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Old Age Echoes (1891). Proof Sheet.
Date: about 1891
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28.5 x 16.5 cm, 6 x 14 cm attached, printed, handwritten
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Content: Proof sheet of "Old Age Echoes" with many corrections written in ink and pencil. "Old Age Echoes" is a general heading for four poems: "Sounds of the Winter," "The Unexpress'd," "Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht!," and "After the Argument."

Whitman Archive Title: Old Age Recitatives
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00229
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Old Age Recitatives (1891). A.MS. draft.
Date: about 1890
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 30 x 20 cm, handwritten
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Content: Draft titled "Old Age Recitatives" written on the verso of an envelope and a letter (author unknown) stuck together. Beneath the main title and Whitman's signature is another title, "Sail out for good, Eidólon yacht!" The text of the poem is identical to the published version of "Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht!" (1891). Whitman has written a note about Arena magazine's rejection of the poem in the top right margin.

Whitman Archive Title: Old Age's Lambent Peaks
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00233
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Old Age's Lambent Peaks (1888). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1888
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 2 leaves, 33 x 15 cm; envelope 10.5 x 13 cm, handwritten
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Content: An edited proof sheet with three poems: "Old Age's Lambent Peaks," "A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine," "To Get the Final Lilt of Songs," all published first in 1888. In addition to corrections, Whitman has written a note to the printer at the top of the page. Also included is an envelope with "printer's proofs, short poems, Walt Whitman, 1888, (autographic)" written on it.

Whitman Archive Title: Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00235
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's (1890). Proof Sheets.
Date: between 1890-1891
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Corrected proof of "Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's" with notations in Whitman's hand.

Whitman Archive Title: Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00236
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's (1890). Proof Sheets.
Date: between 1890 and 1891
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, printed, handwritten
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Content: Corrected proof of "Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's" with notations in Whitman's hand.

Whitman Archive Title: Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's
Whitman Archive ID: loc.02391
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's (1890). Proof Sheets.
Date: between 1890-1891
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, printed, handwritten
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Content: Corrected proof of "Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's" with notations in Whitman's hand.

Whitman Archive Title: Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's
Whitman Archive ID: loc.02392
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's (1890). Proof Sheets.
Date: between 1890-1891
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, printed, handwritten
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Content: Corrected proof of "Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's" with notations in Whitman's hand.

Whitman Archive Title: Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's
Whitman Archive ID: loc.02393
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's (1890). Proof Sheets.
Date: between 1890-1891
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, printed, handwritten
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Content: Corrected proof of "Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's" with notations in Whitman's hand.

Whitman Archive Title: Old Salt Kossabone
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00068
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Old Salt Kossabone (1880). A.MS. draft.
Date: late 1887 or early 1888
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28 x 21.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: Late draft of "Old Salt Kossabone," first published in the New York Herald on February 25, 1888. There is a note on the reverse of the manuscript in another hand (Ellen Terry).

Whitman Archive Title: Old War-Dreams
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00238
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Old War-Dreams (1865-66). Proof.
Date: about 1881
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Proof of "Old War-Dreams" with note at bottom in Whitman's hand: "Walt Whitman's New Book." This poem was published first, in a different form, as "In Clouds Descending, in Midnight Sleep" in 1865-1866. In 1871 it appeared under the title "In Midnight Sleep." The title "Old War-Dreams" was first applied in 1881.

Whitman Archive Title: Old-Age Recitatives
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00232
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Old Age Recitatives (1891). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1891
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 2 leaves, 28 x 21 cm, handwritten
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Content: Proof pages of six poems collected under the general title "Old-Age Recitatives." The poems included are: "Old Chants" (1891), "On, On the Same,Ye Jocund Twain!" (1891), "Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht!" (1891), "L. of G.'s Purport" (only two lines of the twelve-line poem of the same title first published in 1891), "My task" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891), and "For us two, reader dear" (1891). At the top of the first page is a note to the printer in Whitman's hand.

Whitman Archive Title: Old-Age Recitatives
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00231
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Old Age Recitatives (1891). Proof Sheets.
Date: between 1890-1891
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 30.5 x 16 cm, handwritten
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Content: A galley proof of a group of six poems titled "Old-Age Recitatives." The poems included are: "Sail out for good, Eidolon yacht!" (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" (published as part of "L. of G.'s Purport" in 1891), "For us two, reader dear" (first published in 1891), and "Grand is the seen" (first published in 1891). On the verso is a note to the printer.

Whitman Archive Title: On, On the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00240
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: On, On the Same, Ye Jocund Twain! (1891). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1891
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 3 leaves, 24 x 15 cm, handwritten
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Content: Three proof sheets of "On, On the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!," first published in 1891. One proof has several corrections and a note for the printer; the other two proofs have no annotations.

Whitman Archive Title: On, on awhile ye jocund twain
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00074
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: On, On the Same, Ye Jocund Twain! (1891). A.MS. drafts.
Date: about 1890
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A draft of "On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!," which was published first in 1891.

Whitman Archive Title: On, on the same, ye jocund twain!
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00239
Series: Literary File
Box: 28; 28
Folder: On, On the Same, Ye Jocund Twain! (1891). A.MS. drafts.; On, On the Same, Ye Jocund Twain! (1891). A.MS. drafts.
Date: May 10, 1890
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28 x 22 cm, handwritten
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Content: A late draft of "On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!," which was published first in 1891. This draft is signed and dated May 10, 1890.

Whitman Archive Title: Our Old Feuillage
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00242
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Our Old Feuillage (1860). A.MS. corrected pages.
Date: between 1876-1881
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 6 leaves, 20.5 x 12.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: A bound copy of six leaves (the poem "American Feuillage") from the 1876 edition of Leaves of Grass with multiple corrections and revisions, including the change of the title to "Our Old Feuillage." The revisions reflect the poem as it appeared in the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. "Our Old Feuillage" has also been titled "A Chant of National Feuillage" and "Chants Democratic" No. 4.

Whitman Archive Title: Out From Behind This Mask
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00252
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Out From Behind this Mask (1876). Printed Copy.
Date: about 1876
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 15.5 x 13.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: A corrected copy of "Out From Behind This Mask," cut from pages 24 and 25 of Two Rivulets and pasted together to make one page.

Whitman Archive Title: Out From This Mask
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00246
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Out from Behind This Mask (1876). A.MS. draft.
Date: between 1873-1876
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
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Content: Draft of the poem "Out From Behind This Mask," first published in 1876, written on two leaves. On the verso is a draft of a letter Whitman sent to Webster Elmes on 14 August 1873, arranging for a substitute, following his stroke, to cover his work as a clerk in Washington, D. C.

Whitman Archive Title: Out from behind this Mask
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00244
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Out from Behind This Mask (1876). A.MS. draft.
Date: between 1873-1876
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
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Content: Draft of the poem "Out From Behind This Mask," first published in 1876.

Whitman Archive Title: Out from behind this Mask
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00247
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Out from Behind This Mask (1876). A.MS. draft.
Date: between 1873-1876
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Draft of the poem "Out From Behind This Mask," first published in 1876. The title is written in blue pencil.

Whitman Archive Title: Out from this Mask
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00245
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Out from Behind This Mask (1876). A.MS. draft.
Date: between 1873-1876
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Draft of the poem "Out From Behind This Mask," first published in 1876.

Whitman Archive Title: Over and through the burial chant
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00253
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Over and Through the Burial Chant (1888). Printed Copy.
Date: 1888
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, printed, handwritten
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Content: Clipped-out copy of "Over and Through the Burial Chant" from the August 12, 1888 issue of the New York Herald, with notations in Whitman's hand. The poem was later published as "Interpolation Sounds."

Whitman Archive Title: Passage to India
Whitman Archive ID:
Series: Literary File
Box: 23
Folder: Passage to India. Page Proofs.
Date: about 1871
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: , printed, handwritten
Images: currently unavailable
Content: Page proofs of Walt Whitman's book of 1871, Passage to India, with several (mostly minor) corrections in Whitman's hand.

Whitman Archive Title: Patroling Barnegat
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00258
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Patroling Barnegat (1880). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1881
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12 x 16 cm, handwritten
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Content: A proof sheet of "Patroling Barnegat," with a correction in Whitman's hand. The poem was first published as "Patrolling Barnegat" in the April 1881 issue of Harper's Monthly Magazine.

Whitman Archive Title: Patroling Barnegat
Whitman Archive ID: loc.02403
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Patroling Barnegat (1880). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1881
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12 x 16 cm, handwritten
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Content: A proof sheet of "Patroling Barnegat," with a correction in Whitman's hand. The poem was first published as "Patrolling Barnegat" in the April 1881 issue of Harper's Monthly Magazine.

Whitman Archive Title: Paumanok
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00259
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Paumanok (1888). A.MS. copy.
Date: about 1888
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12 x 21 cm, handwritten
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Content: Written in ink on a sheet of white paper, cut from a larger sheet, is a late draft of "Paumanok," first published in 1888. It is signed in full at bottom. The word "personal" is partially encircled in the upper right-hand corner. In pencil on verso in another hand: "Feb 18, 1888."

Whitman Archive Title: Paumanok
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00260
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Paumanok (post-1888). Newspaper clipping.
Date: about 1888
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 22 x 14.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: A small newspaper clipping of "Paumanok" pasted onto a larger sheet of paper, with notes and corrections in Whitman's hand. "Paumanok" was first published in the New York Herald in 1888.

Whitman Archive Title: Pioneers! O Pioneers!
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00263
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Pioneers! O Pioneers! (1865). A.MS. draft.
Date: about 1865
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 16.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: A draft of the first two stanzas of "Pioneers! O Pioneers!," which was first published in 1865, written in ink on a rough, bluish piece of paper. On the verso is a note in pencil concerning wounded soldiers.

Whitman Archive Title: Poem of the Trainer
Whitman Archive ID: loc.06005
Series: Notes and Notebooks
Box: 40
Folder: The voice of Walt Whitman
Date: Betwee late 1855 and 1860
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: One leaf made by pasting together two scraps of pink paper, probably wrappers from the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. This portion of the manuscript contains the title "Poem of the Trainer," written in ink. This title is not known to have any relationship to Whitman's published works. Whitman's titling of poems as "Poem of..." began with the 1856 edition of Leaves and was retained, although to a lesser extent, in future editions. Given this, and the use of the 1855 wrapper paper, this note was likely written sometime between late 1855 and 1860. This scrap is attached to another scrap (loc.07550) that contains several fragmentary lines written in pencil describing a whale hunt, likely related to lines on the same topic in "A Song of Joys." On the reverse of the two scraps (loc.06004) are approximately four lines, written and revised in ink, about the 1833 Leonid meteor shower, likely related to the poem "Year of Meteors. (1859–1860)."

Whitman Archive Title: Pourtraiture of Columbus
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00279
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Prayer of Columbus (1874). A.MS. draft and notes.
Date: about 1874
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Prose notes concerning Whitman's idea for the poem "Prayer of Columbus," first published in 1874.

Whitman Archive Title: Pourtray Columbus
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00280
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Prayer of Columbus (1874). A.MS. draft and notes.
Date: about 1874
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Prose notes concerning Whitman's idea for the poem "Prayer of Columbus," first published in 1874.

Whitman Archive Title: Prayer of Columbus
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00266
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Prayer of Columbus (1874). A.MS. corrected pages.
Date: 1881
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten
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Content: Bound corrected proofs of "Prayer of Columbus," which was published first in 1874. The title page, which follows Whitman's portrait, reads "Prayer of Columbus, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof, 1881." The corrections are most likely for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass.

Whitman Archive Title: Priests!
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00013
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Priests! (1855). A.MS. draft.
Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 10 x 20 cm, handwritten
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Content: Whitman probably drafted this manuscript in the early 1850s as he was composing the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass. The general theme of this manuscript, as well as the specific wording of one of the lines, resembles a portion of the second poem in that edition, eventually entitled "A Song for Occupations": "When the sacred vessels or the bits of the eucharist, or the lath and plast, procreate as effectually as the young silvermiths or bakers, or the masons in their overalls / ... / I intend to reach them my hand and make as much of them as I do of men and women" (1855, p. 64). Language and ideas from this manuscript appear in other manuscripts that relate to the first poem in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, ultimately titled "Song of Myself." See in particular the lines: "The supernatural of no account . . . . myself waiting my time to be one of the supremes, / The day getting ready for me when I shall do as much good as the best, and be as prodigious, / Guessing when I am it will not tickle me much to receive puffs out of pulpit or print" (1855, p. 46). Based on its similarity to other manuscripts, this manuscript may also relate to lines 39-43 in "Debris," a cluster published in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass: "I WILL take an egg out of the robin's nest in the orchard, / I will take a branch of gooseberries from the old bush in the garden, and go and preach to the world; / You shall see I will not meet a single heretic or scorner, / You shall see how I stump clergymen, and confound them, / You shall see me showing a scarlet tomato, and a white pebble from the beach" (1860, p. 424). On the verso (loc.07512) is a proposition for a poem "embodying the sentiment of perfect happiness." Pin marks and leftover bits of glue near the bottom of the leaf suggest it was at one point attached to something else.

Whitman Archive Title: Recapitulation
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00208
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: Last Words (1889). A.MS. drafts.
Date: about 1889
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Draft of an unpublished poem which was also titled, in other manuscript drafts, "Last Words" and "The last." The draft was written on the back of an opened envelope from W. F. Woodruff.

Whitman Archive Title: Rel.
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00170
Series: Notes and Notebooks
Box: 40
Folder: Literary, Undated, Religion
Date: undated
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
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Content: Two leaves of notes entitled "Rel." and discussing issues related to religion. A note in another hand in the top margin declares that the note is from before the Civil War.

Whitman Archive Title: Resurgemus
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00289
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: Resurgemus (1850). Clipping.
Date: about 1884
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 2 leaves, 24.5 x 14.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: A clipping from the September, 1884 issue of the London magazine To-Day. Printed in the issue is Whitman's poem "Resurgemus," and in Whitman's hand are some corrections and a bibliographic notation. The publication history of this poem is unusual: it was published first as "Resurgemus" in 1850, then untitled in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, then as "Poem of The Dead Young Men of Europe, the 72nd and 73rd Years of These States" in the 1856 edition, and as "Europe, The 72nd and 73rd Years of These States" in the 1860 and subsequent editions. The appearance of the poem in an 1884 periodical under an old title is highly unusual.

Whitman Archive Title: Returning to my pages' front once
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00088
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Out from Behind This Mask (1876). A.MS. draft.
Date: between 1871 and 1876
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Draft of the poem "Out From Behind This Mask," first published in the New York Tribune on February 19, 1876.

Whitman Archive Title: Rule in all addresses
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00163
Series: Notes and Notebooks
Box: 39
Folder: Literary, Rule in All Addresses.
Date: Before 1856
Genre: prose, poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Lines and phrases on both the recto and verso of this manuscript contributed to portions of the poem eventually titled "Song of Myself," and possibly to other sections of the 1855 Leaves of Grass, suggesting a composition date before 1855. However, this manuscript also includes lines that probably contributed to "Sun-Down Poem" (later retitled "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry") in the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass. It is possible that some of these poetic lines contributed to the prose preface to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. A line in this manuscript is similar to the following line, in the poem later titled "Song of Myself": "I am the mate and companion of people, all just as immortal and fathomless as myself" (1855, p. 17). Another line is similar to the lines "And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is" (1855, p. 53) and "And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man" (1855, p. 26). Another manuscript line is similar to the line "Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man" (1855, p. 23). And several manuscript lines are similar to the lines beginning "Not merely of the New World but of Africa Europe or Asia . . . . a wandering savage, / A farmer, mechanic, or artist . . . . a gentleman, sailor, lover or quaker, / A prisoner, fancy-man, rowdy, lawyer, physician or priest" (1855, p. 24). Three other lines are similar to: "Storming enjoying planning loving cautioning, / Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing, / I tread day and night such roads" (1855, p. 38). Edward Grier speculates that Whitman's note "Don't forget the bombardment" relates to the "bombardment" of the "old artillerist" in "Song of Myself": "I am an old artillerist, and tell of some fort's bombardment . . . . and am there again" (1855, p. 40). (See Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:165). Several phrases of the prose on the verso were probably later used, in somewhat revised form, in the following lines from "Sun-down Poem" in the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass: "The best I had done seemed to me blank and suspicious, / My great thoughts, as I supposed them, were they not in reality meagre? Would not people laugh at me?" (1856, p. 216). The poem was later titled "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry." It is possible that some of the poetic lines on the verso contributed to the prose preface to the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. The lines "I am too great to be a mere President or Major General / I remain with my fellows—with mechanics, and farmers and common people" may relate to the sentence from the preface that reads: "Other states indicate themselves in their deputies....but the genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges or churches or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors...but always most in the common people" (1855, p. iii). The line "I remain with them all on equal terms" may also be related to the following line in the preface: "The messages of great poets to each man and woman are, Come to us on equal terms" (1855, p. vii). The line "In me are the old and young the fool and the wise thinker" may be related to a similar phrase in the poem eventually titled "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?": "The stupid and the wise thinker" (1855, p. 92). The phrase "mother of many children" appears in both the preface and in the poem later titled "Faces."

Whitman Archive Title: Sail forth O mystic yacht of me
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00040
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht! (1888). A.MS. drafts and notes.
Date: about 1890
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Trial lines for "Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht!," which was published first in 1891. On part of the page is prose that appears to be a journal entry. The rest, though, is dedicated to a draft of the poem, with the title written half way down the page: "Sail forth O mystic yacht of me." On the verso is written "Walt Whitman, July 30 1890" twice.

Whitman Archive Title: Sail out for Good Eidolon yacht
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00041
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: Sail Out for Good, Eidolón Yacht! (1888). A.MS. drafts and notes.
Date: about 1891
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Note regarding "Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht!," which was published first in 1891. Written on this small white sheet are the title of the poem ("Sail out for good Eidólon yacht") and trial phrases for what appears to be a subtitle.

Whitman Archive Title: Salut Au Monde
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00292
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: Salut Au Monde (1886). A.MS. corrected pages.
Date: about 1881
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 13 leaves, handwritten, printed
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Content: Pages of"Salut Au Monde!" as printed in the 1871–72 edition of Leaves of Grass, heavily corrected for publication in the 1881–82 edition This poem had originally been published in 1856 under the title "Poem of Salutation."

Whitman Archive Title: Sands at Seventy
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00174
Series: Literary File
Box: 22
Folder: L of G (1888). Page Proofs—Sands at Seventy
Date: about 1888
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 20 leaves, 28.5 x 19.7 cm, handwritten, printed
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Content: Proof of Sands at Seventy with some notes in Whitman's hand and in another, unidentified hand. The notes mostly regard pagination and the insertion of the poem "Old Age's Lambent Peaks."

Whitman Archive Title: See'st thou
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00162
Series: Notes and Notebooks
Box: 40
Folder: Literary, Undated, The Voice of Walt Whitman.
Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Whitman probably drafted this manuscript in the early 1850s as he was composing the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass. It probably relates to the seventh poem in that edition, originally untitled, part of which eventually became "Song of the Answerer." The manuscript is collected in a bound volume with other manuscripts.

Whitman Archive Title: Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00294
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher (1891). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1887
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 15 x 14.5 cm, printed, handwritten
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Content: Proof of "Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher," which was published first in 1887.

Whitman Archive Title: Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher
Whitman Archive ID: loc.02413
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher (1891). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1887
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 15 x 14.5 cm, printed, handwritten
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Content: Proof of "Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher," which was published first in 1887.

Whitman Archive Title: Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher
Whitman Archive ID: loc.02414
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher (1891). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1887
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 15 x 14.5 cm, printed, handwritten
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Content: Proof of "Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher," which was published first in 1887.

Whitman Archive Title: Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04122
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher (1891). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1887
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 15 x 14.5 cm, printed, handwritten
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Content: Proof of "Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher," which was published first in 1887.

Whitman Archive Title: So Loth to Depart!
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00003
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: After the Supper and Talk (1888). A.MS. drafts
Date: about 1887
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 26 x 20 cm, handwritten
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Content: Draft of poem later revised and published as "After the Supper and Talk" in 1887. On verso detached from Leaves of Grass, part of "Poem of Joys," first published in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, and later published as "A Song of Joys." The title "Poem of Joys" is in Whitman's hand.

Whitman Archive Title: Song of the Redwood-Tree
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00297
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: Song of the Redwood-Tree (1874). Proof Sheet.
Date: about 1874
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 2 leaves, 40.5 x 25.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: A proof sheet of "Song of the Redwood-Tree," first published in 1874, with minor corrections and a note on the verso in Whitman's hand.

Whitman Archive Title: Song of the Open Road
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00847
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: Song of the Open Road (1856). A.MS. corrected pages.
Date: about 1881
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 12 leaves, handwritten
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Content: These corrected pages of "Song of the Open Road" contributed to the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass.

Whitman Archive Title: Songs of Parting
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00298
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: Songs of Parting. A.MS. corrected pages.
Date: about 1881
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 18 leaves, handwritten
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Content: Corrected pages, many originally appearing in the 1876 Leaves of Grass, of cluster "Songs of Parting," containing 17 poems. Opposite a portrait of Whitman, the title page reads, "Songs of Parting, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof." These corrections were probably intended for the 1881–82 edition of Leaves of Grass. The 17 poems included are: "As the Time Draws Nigh," "Ashes of Soldiers," "Years of the Modern," "Thoughts," "Song at Sunset," "My Legacy," "Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All," "Camps of Green," "Bathed in War's Perfume," "Now Finalé to the Shore," "As they Draw to a Close," "The Untold Want," "Portals," "These Carols," "To the Reader at Parting," "Joy, Shipmate, Joy!," and "So Long."

Whitman Archive Title: Spirit That Form'd This Scene
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00131
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: Spirit That Form'd This Scene (1881). A.MS. draft.
Date: between 1879-1881
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Draft of "Spirit That Form'd This Scene" written in ink, with a few changes, on a writing surface made by pasting together various strips cut from larger sheets. The poem was published in 1881.

Whitman Archive Title: Spirit that form'd this scene
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00300
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: Spirit That Form'd This Scene (1881). A.MS. drafts.
Date: about 1881
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 20 x 12 cm, handwritten
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Content: A late draft of "Spirit That Form'd this Scene," which was first published in 1881, written in ink on one side of a sheet and signed in full.

Whitman Archive Title: Spirit that form'd this scene
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00615
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: Spirit That Form'd This Scene (1881). A.MS. drafts.
Date: about 1881
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 20 x 12 cm, handwritten
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Content: A draft of "Spirit That Form'd this Scene," which was first published in 1881, written in ink on sheets made from pasting together five strips pasted onto another sheet of paper. The date 1881 appears at the top of the sheet.

Whitman Archive Title: Starting from Paumanok
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00301
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: Starting from Paumanok (1880). A.MS. corrected pages.
Date: about 1881
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 15 leaves, handwritten
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Content: Bound proof corrected extensively in Whitman's hand. This correction was probably for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. Opposite a portrait of Whitman, the title page reads, "Starting From Paumanok, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof—." "Starting From Paumanok" was first published as "Proto-Leaf"in 1860.

Whitman Archive Title: Supplement Hours
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00302
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: Supplement Hours. A.MS. drafts.
Date: about 1880
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Draft and trial lines probably written around 1880. These lines are directly related to "A Clear Midnight," first published in Leaves of Grass in 1881. The lines that appear in this manuscript also were published posthumously as "Supplement Hours," a poem that formed part of a cluster entitled "Old Age Echoes," included in an edition of Leaves of Grass compiled by Whitman's literary executors and published in 1897 (Boston: Small, Maynard). The first line begins "Sane, easy, homely."

Whitman Archive Title: Supplement Hours
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00303
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: Supplement Hours. A.MS. drafts.
Date: about 1881
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Draft and trial lines of a poem unpublished in Whitman's lifetime, though published posthumously as "Supplement Hours." The poem was part of a cluster entitled "Old Age Echoes," included in an edition of Leaves of Grass compiled by Whitman's literary executors and published in 1897 (Boston: Small, Maynard). The first line begins "The lesson done."

Whitman Archive Title: Supplement Hours Notes
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00304
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: Supplement Hours. A.MS. drafts.
Date: about 1881
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Draft and trial lines of a poem unpublished in Whitman's lifetime, though published posthumously as "Supplement Hours." The poem was part of a cluster entitled "Old Age Echoes," included in an edition of Leaves of Grass compiled by Whitman's literary executors and published in 1897 (Boston: Small, Maynard). The subtitle reads "Notes by a half-paralytic."

Whitman Archive Title: Sword-Calls
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00308
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: Sword Calls (1863-64). A.MS. draft and notes.
Date: between 1863-1864
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
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Content: Draft and notes for an unpublished poem titled "Sword-Calls" written in ink on a large sheet from a notebook (second sheet blank), and in pencil (with "Sword-Calls" in red ink) on another smaller leaf.

Whitman Archive Title: Talk with Mr. Hartshorn
Whitman Archive ID: loc.07017
Series: Notes and Notebooks
Box: 38
Folder: Notes 1847–1891, Brooklyniana, undated, Guy's picture of Brooklyn
Date: 1855-1861
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: These notes discuss the authenticity of a painting by Francis Guy. Whitman wrote about Guy and one of his paintings in the installment of his "Brooklyniana" series published in the Brooklyn Standard on 28 December 1861. The piece is titled "Brooklyniana No. 3," but was actually the fourth installment to appear; an installment also titled "No. 3" had appeared in the Standard on 12 June 1861.

Whitman Archive Title: Thanks in Old Age
Whitman Archive ID: loc.01116
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: Thanks in Old Age (1887). Printed Copy.
Date: November 24, 1887
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, printed, handwritten
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Content: A clipping from the November 24, 1887 issue of The Republican with Whitman's poem "Thanks in Old Age." The date of the issue is noted in Whitman's hand in the margin.

Whitman Archive Title: Thanks in Old Age
Whitman Archive ID: loc.01081
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: Thanks in Old Age (1888). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1887
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 2 leaves, handwritten
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Content: A proof sheet of "Thanks in Old Age" that features a single correction—a comma added after the word "retrospective." The poem was published first in 1887.

Whitman Archive Title: The Beauty of the Ship
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00499
Series: General Correspondence
Box: 4
Folder: Buchanan, Robert. Apr. 1876-Jan 1877, & undated.
Date: 1876
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A cancelled, early draft of "The Beauty of the Ship"written on the verso of an 1876 letter from Whitman to Robert Buchanan.

Whitman Archive Title: The Buried Army
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00108
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: The Buried Army (After Sept. 1885). A.MS. draft.
Date: about 1885
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 18 x 16 cm, handwritten
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Content: Trial lines, possibly for "A Twilight Song,"first published in 1890 and subtitled "For unknown buried soldiers, North and South."

Whitman Archive Title: The Commonplace
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00076
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: The Commonplace (1891). A.MS. draft.
Date: about 1890
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 27 x 19 cm, handwritten
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Content: On one side is a draft of "The Commonplace," which was first published in manuscript facsimile in 1891. On the other side is a cancelled early draft of "Osceola," a poem first published in 1890.

Whitman Archive Title: The Commonplace
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04077
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: The Commonplace (Mar. 1891). Printed Copy.
Date: March, 1891
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf,
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Content: A copy of the March, 1891, issue of Munson's Magazine, which includes, in manuscript facsimile, "The Commonplace."

Whitman Archive Title: The Dalliance of the Eagles
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00023
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: The Dalliance of the Eagles (1880). A.MS. drafts.
Date: about 1880
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 4 leaves, 21.5 x 20 cm, handwritten
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Content: On a surface made by pasting together six scraps of paper (back of a discarded envelope from Geo. S. Woodhull and Son, Law Offices, Camden, postmarked Apr 6; back of a discarded letter, dated New York, March 29, 1880; and other scraps), a late draft of the poem "The Dalliance of the Eagles," about 120 words, showing a few minor variations from the first-published version of 1880.

Whitman Archive Title: The Dalliance of the Eagles
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00184
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: The Dalliance of the Eagles (1880). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1880
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 25.8 x 18.6 cm, handwritten
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Content: Written in ink on a proof of "The Dalliance of the Eagles," "Ah, little knows the Laborer," "Hast never come to thee an hour?," and "My Picture-Gallery," are 14 words of notations in Whitman's hand. The proof has been pasted to a heavy piece of paper, on the verso of which is "A Riddle Song," part of "Italian Music in Dakota," and a clipped headline reading "The Society Articles Save Labor. Lighten the Labor for Mother."

Whitman Archive Title: The Dead Tenor
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00185
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: The Dead Tenor (1884). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1884
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 2 leaves, 24 x 15 cm, 10.5 x 16.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: Written in pencil on a small page from a notebook, on which is pasted a clipping from a newspaper about the funeral of Signor Brignoli and the reaction of Patti, pinned to an unmarked proof of "The Dead Tenor," thirty words: "I heard the earliest singing of Patti, (in 1860 if I remember right)—heard her many times, Brignoli sang with her at her first appearance in NY in 1859." The poem was first published in 1884.

Whitman Archive Title: The Dead Tenor
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00186
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: The Dead Tenor (1884). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1884
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 15 cm, 20.5 x 15.25 cm, 24.25 x 15 cm, handwritten
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Content: Proof of "The Dead Tenor," with notations and corrections in Whitman's hand. The poem was first published in 1884.

Whitman Archive Title: The Dead Tenor
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00497
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: The Dead Tenor (1884). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1884
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 15 cm, 20.5 x 15.25 cm, 24.25 x 15 cm, handwritten
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Content: Proof of "The Dead Tenor," with notations and corrections in Whitman's hand. The poem was first published in 1884.

Whitman Archive Title: The Dismantled Ship
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00191
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: The Dismantled Ship (1888). A.MS. draft.
Date: about 1888
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A draft of "The Dismantled Ship," first published in 1888, written on the inside of an opened envelope (postmark date unclear). At the bottom of the page in a note in Whitman's hand: "probably printed in Herald 19th Feb. '88."

Whitman Archive Title: The Dying Veteran
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00193
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: The Dying Veteran (1887). A.MS. draft.
Date: June 23, 1887
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28 x 21.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: A dated, signed draft of "The Dying Veteran," first published in 1887. A note at end reads: "Given to Thomas Mosher by Horace Traubel, 1900." On verso of the page is a note by Whitman to "Mr. Curtz" (type setter) asking for a finished proof by the middle of the afternoon, Wednesday.

Whitman Archive Title: The Hicksite separation appears
Whitman Archive ID: loc.06058
Series: Oversize
Box: OV 11
Folder: 1888, "Elias Hicks"
Date: about 1888
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: The information on this small scrap was used for a note, headed "Note.—The Separation," included in the essay "Notes (such as they are) founded on Elias Hicks." This essay was first published in November Boughs (1888) and later reprinted in Complete Prose Works (1892). Whitman planned to write an essay about Elias Hicks for many years. While finishing preparations for the printing of November Boughs, Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were written as many as thirty years ago. Some of them I have written within the past year. They are a miscellaneous lot but they all belong in the same stream." (See Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, 2: 42.) The present manuscript is stored together with many other manuscripts on the topics of Elias Hicks and Quakerism. Those that directly contributed to the published essay are described separately. Those whose relationship to the published essay are unclear are not included at this stage of our work.

Whitman Archive Title: The Mystic Cipher
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00220
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: The Mystic Cipher. A.MS. draft.
Date: 1887
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 9.5 x 21.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: A draft of a poem later revised and published as "Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher" in 1887.

Whitman Archive Title: The Patrol at Barnegat
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00254
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Patroling Barnegat. (1880). A.MS. drafts.
Date: 1880
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten
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Content: An early draft entitled "The Patrol at Barnegat," containing trial lines for the poem first published as "Patroling Barnegat" in the June 1880 issue of The American. On the reverse of one leaf is a letter to Whitman from E. H. Hames & Co. of The Literary World magazine dated May 12, 1880.

Whitman Archive Title: The Patrol at Barnegat
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00255
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Patroling Barnegat. (1880). A.MS. drafts.
Date: about 1881
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten
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Content: A draft entitled "The Patrol at Barnegat," containing trial lines for the poem first published as "Patrolling Barnegat" in the April 1881 issue of Harper's Monthly Magazine. The draft was originally titled "The Sea Beach Patrol," then "The Sea Shore Patrol," and finally "The Patrol at Barnegat." On the verso of the draft are two receipts from the Philadelphia Y.M.C.A., dated March 22, 1880 and April 15, 1880, and an unfinished letter from Whitman to John Burroughs, dated August 20.

Whitman Archive Title: The Patrol at Barnegat
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00256
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: Patroling Barnegat. (1880). A.MS. drafts.
Date: about 1881
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A heavily-corrected draft of the poem published as "Patrolling Barnegat" in the April 1881 issue of Harper's Monthly Magazine.

Whitman Archive Title: The Play-Ground
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00264
Series: Literary File
Box: 28
Folder: The Play-Ground (1846). A.MS. draft.
Date: About 1846
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 20 x 16.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: A draft of the early poem "The Play-Ground," nearly as it appeared in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on June 1, 1846 (during Whitman's editorship of the paper). On the verso is a page of prose in Whitman's hand.

Whitman Archive Title: The Poetry of the War at last
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00165
Series: Notes and Notebooks
Box: 39
Folder: c. 1880, Poetry of the War At Last
Date: about 1880
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A prose draft entitled "The Poetry of the War at last," used for the essay "Poetry To-Day in America—Shakspere—the Future," which was published in the "Collect" section of Specimen Days & Collect (1882–1883).

Whitman Archive Title: The Singing Thrush
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00019
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: The Singing Thrush (1873). A.MS. draft.
Date: February 28, 1873
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12 x 19 cm, handwritten
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Content: A draft of "The Singing Thrush"(first published in 1873 and later published under the title "Wandering at Morn") written in pencil, with corrections and changes (some in ink) on a folded sheet of stationery. The draft is signed and dated Washington, February 28, 1873.

Whitman Archive Title: The Sleepers
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00295
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: The Sleepers (1855). A.MS. corrected pages.
Date: about 1881
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 12 leaves, 11.5 x 20.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: A bound copy of corrected pages of "The Sleepers"from the 1876 edition of Leaves of Grass. The corrections are written in ink, purple ink (faded red?) and blue pencil on every page and are for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. There is a portrait of Whitman opposite a title page reading "Sleepers, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's Corrected Proof."

Whitman Archive Title: The Sobbing of the Bells
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00020
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: The Sobbing of the Bells (1881). A.MS. drafts.
Date: 1881
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Draft of "The Sobbing of the Bells," first published in the Boston Daily Globe on September 27, 1881. On the verso is a letter from John Boyle O'Reilly to Whitman that has been cut up and pasted together.

Whitman Archive Title: The Sobbing of the Bells
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00022
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: The Sobbing of the Bells (1881). A.MS. drafts.
Date: September 1881
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Draft of "The Sobbing of the Bells," first published in the Boston Daily Globe on September 27, 1881. The poem was composed sometime between September 19, 1881, when President James Garfield died, and the publication date. This clean draft is encased in mylar and housed with five clippings and descriptive cards.

Whitman Archive Title: The Sobbing of the Bells
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00021
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: The Sobbing of the Bells (1881). A.MS. drafts.
Date: 1881
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Draft of "The Sobbing of the Bells," first published in 1881. On the verso is prose in Whitman's hand.

Whitman Archive Title: The Trail
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00617
Series: Literary File
Box: 30
Folder: The Trail (1872). A.MS. draft and notes.
Date: about 1872
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 3 leaves, 25 x 20 cm, handwritten
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Content: Notes and drafted lines of an unpublished poem, which Whitman had tentatively titled "The Trail." The lines were written while Whitman was reading The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman, for he has noted it at the top of the first page. The title, written near the bottom of the first page, and "The Emigration to California 1846 '7," on the third page, are written in red ink. The relationship of this draft to Whitman's published work is unknown. All versos are blank.

Whitman Archive Title: The Unexpress'd
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00319
Series: Literary File
Box: 30
Folder: The Unexpress'd (1890). A.MS. draft.
Date: about 1889
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 22 x 17 cm, handwritten
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Content: A heavily corrected draft of the poem "The Unexpress'd," which was published first in 1891, written on the verso of a cancelled letter from Marjorie Cook, dated September 25, 1889.

Whitman Archive Title: The Voice of the Rain
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00322
Series: Literary File
Box: 30
Folder: The Voice of the Rain (1885). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1885
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Proof sheet of the poem "The Voice of the Rain," which was published first in 1885, with notations in Whitman's hand.

Whitman Archive Title: The Voice of the Rain
Whitman Archive ID: loc.02466
Series: Literary File
Box: 30
Folder: The Voice of the Rain (1885). Proof Sheets.
Date: about 1885
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Proof sheet of the poem "The Voice of the Rain," which was published first in 1885, with notations and corrections in Whitman's hand (including a rejected title and a notation on the verso).

Whitman Archive Title: The division took place
Whitman Archive ID: loc.06070
Series: Oversize
Box: OV 11
Folder: 1888, "Elias Hicks"
Date: about 1888
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: The writing on this small scrap, regarding the so-called "Hicksite Separation" within the Religious Society of Friends, forms part of a note, headed "Note.—The Separation," included in the essay "Notes (such as they are) founded on Elias Hicks." This essay was first published in November Boughs (1888) and later reprinted in Complete Prose Works (1892). Whitman planned to write an essay about Elias Hicks for many years. While finishing preparations for the printing of November Boughs, Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were written as many as thirty years ago. Some of them I have written within the past year. They are a miscellaneous lot but they all belong in the same stream." (See Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, 2: 42.) The present manuscript is stored together with many other manuscripts on the topics of Elias Hicks and Quakerism. Those that directly contributed to the published essay are described separately. Those whose relationship to the published essay are unclear are not included at this stage of our work.

Whitman Archive Title: The endless Catalogue Divine
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00291
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete (1891). A. MS. drafts.
Date: about 1891
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 25 x 19.5 cm, handwritten
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Content: A badly stained draft of a poem published as "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete" in 1891.

Whitman Archive Title: The genuine miracles of Christ
Whitman Archive ID: loc.01019
Series: Literary File
Box: 36
Folder: Undated, "The Genuine Miracles of Christ," draft
Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Genre: prose, poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: This cancelled prose manuscript was probably written between 1850 and 1855. Language in the manuscript was used in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, in the poem that was eventually titled "Song of Myself." Segments of the manuscript also resemble language that appeared in the preface to the 1855 Leaves of Grass and in the 1856 "Poem of Perfect Miracles," later titled "Miracles." The wording of "the vast elemental sympathy, which, only the human soul is capable of generating and emitting in steady and limitless floods," was used, slightly revised, in "A Song of Joys," which first appeared in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass as "Poem of Joys."

Whitman Archive Title: The idea that in the
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00389
Series: Literary File
Box: 32
Folder: "Ideas of Punishment-Reward, Woman, Liberty," draft
Date: Between 1854 and 1888
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: This manuscript is written on the back of a City of Williamsburgh tax form. A later note, in Whitman's hand, claims that the manuscript was written in 1855. It is possible that one of the lines relates to the following segment from the prose preface of the 1855 Leaves of Grass: "the perfect equality of the female with the male . . . ." (1855, p. iv). Scholars, following Fredson Bowers, have generally assumed that Whitman used the Williamsburgh tax forms from 1857 to 1860, while he was working at the Brooklyn Daily Times. The city of Williamsburgh was incorporated with Brooklyn effective January 1855, so the forms would have been obsolete after that date (Whitman's Manuscripts: Leaves of Grass [1860] [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955], xli–xliii). Most of the manuscripts Whitman wrote on the tax forms can be dated to the late 1850s. Bowers also notes, however, that Whitman may have used the forms over a considerable span of time, and that "it is not impossible that Whitman had picked up these tax forms for scrap paper at Rome Brothers at some unknown date in 1854 or early 1855, or later" (xliii). At least two of the tax forms Whitman used were dated 1854 (see, for instance, "Vast national tracts" [loc.05354.html]), but as Edward Grier points out, this may not correspond to the date of Whitman's writing (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 5:1946). Whitman may have found a stack of obsolete Williamsburgh forms in 1857 that included discarded draft forms dated earlier. This manuscript is thus difficult to date conclusively, but it was almost certainly written after 1854 and probably before 1860. Based on a transcription of the manuscript in Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden, the later note about the date of the manuscript must have been added before September 1888 ([New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1915], 246).

Whitman Archive Title: The last
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00211
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: Last Words (1889). A.MS. drafts.
Date: about 1889
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: Draft of an unpublished poem which was also titled, in other manuscript drafts, "Last Words" and "Recapitulation." The draft was written on the back of a letter from R. M. Bucke, dated December 3, 1889.

Whitman Archive Title: The mystic Trumpeter
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04099
Series: Literary File
Box: 27
Folder: The Mystic Trumpeter (1873). Printed copies in Hungarian
Date: January 19, 1873
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 43.5 x 30 cm, handwritten
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Content: A copy of the Budapest newspaper Fovarosi Lapok of January 19, 1873 containing Whitman's poem "The Mystic Trumpeter" in Hungarian and an interview with the poet by Liptay Pal. At the top, written in pencil, are notes in Whitman's hand.

Whitman Archive Title: The policy of the War Department in not exchanging prisoners
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00930
Series: Literary File
Box: 32
Folder: ca. 1864, "The Policy of the War Department in Not Exchanging Prisoners"
Date: 1864
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A short draft on the exchange of the prisoners of war, the last paragraph of which was revised and printed on 27 December 1864 in both "The Prisoners" New-York Times and "What Stops the General Exchange of Prisoners of War?—Three-fourths of Our Men Already Exchanged by Death, or Mental and Bodily Ruin, and the Rest will Soon Follow" Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

Whitman Archive Title: The real earthly catalogue divine, 'complete'
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00017
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete (1891). A. MS. drafts.
Date: about 1891
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A draft of a poem published as "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete" in 1891, written in ink on a piece of paper to that of "The endless Catalogue Divine" (loc.00291), with a discarded envelope (addressed to Miss Olive Percival, 214 W. 2nd St., Los Angeles, CA) opened out and pasted to the bottom of the piece, and some corrections in both pencil and ink.

Whitman Archive Title: The th Presidency
Whitman Archive ID: loc.06002
Series: Notes and Notebooks
Box: 40
Folder: Literary, Undated, The Voice of Walt Whitman.
Date: 1855 or 1856
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A manuscript draft of the title and opening lines of "The Eighteenth Presidency!" a political pamphlet about the 1856 Presidential election that remained unpublished in Whitman's lifetime, but was written in late 1855 or 1856. The manuscript is collected in a bound book under the general title Walt Whitman: A Series of Six Pieces, Original Holograph Manuscripts.

Whitman Archive Title: The village of Jericho
Whitman Archive ID: loc.06029
Series: Oversize
Box: OV 11
Folder: 1888, "Elias Hicks"
Date: between 1858 and 1888
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: This one-page prose draft regarding the birthplace of Elias Hicks was likely one of the manuscripts from which Whitman fashioned his 1888 essay "Notes (such as they are) founded on Elias Hicks," first published in November Boughs and later reprinted in Complete Prose Works (1892). The reference to Elias Hicks's daughter Martha Hicks Aldrich as "still living" suggests that Whitman began writing this manuscript before 1862, the year of Martha's death. The reference, in the revision of this passage, to her death "a year or two ago," "about 1863," would seem to indicate that at least that portion of the manuscript was written around 1865. Whitman planned to write an essay about Elias Hicks for many years. While finishing preparations for the printing of November Boughs, Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were written as many as thirty years ago. Some of them I have written within the past year. They are a miscellaneous lot but they all belong in the same stream." (See Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, 2: 42.) The present manuscript is stored together with many other manuscripts on the topics of Elias Hicks and Quakerism. Those that directly contributed to the published essay are described separately. Those whose relationship to the published essay are unclear are not included at this stage of our work.

Whitman Archive Title: The wild gander leads his
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00507
Series: Literary File
Box: 20
Folder: L of G (1855). Manuscript Page.
Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: This manuscript was probably written between 1850 and 1855, while Whitman was working on the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass. The lines in the manuscript appear in the first poem in that edition, eventually titled "Song of Myself." John C. Broderick has described this manuscript as the last surviving page of "the original manuscript of the first edition of Leaves of Grass" ("The Greatest Whitman Collector and the Greatest Whitman Collection," The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, 27.2 [April 1970], 109–128), a claim echoed by Arthur Golden in "The Ending of the 1855 Version of 'Song of Myself,'" Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 3.4 (Spring 1986), 30n6. The page number at the top of the manuscript is not inconsistent with the possible positioning of these lines as part of a printer's copy, but lacking further evidence it would be difficult to confirm the claim. On the reverse side (loc.07428) is a long list of words, many of which are found in the poem eventually "Song of the Broad-Axe."

Whitman Archive Title: This first page will be
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00030
Series: Literary File
Box: OV 4
Folder: November Boughs, Galley Proofs
Date: about 1888
Genre: poetry, prose
Physical Description: about 62 leaves, printed, handwritten
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Content: Sixty-two pages of galley proofs of November Boughs (1888), with numerous corrections.

Whitman Archive Title: This young man in bed 25
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00928
Series: Literary File
Box: 32
Folder: ca. 1863, "A Connecticut Case," New York Weekly Graphic, draft
Date: ca. 1863
Genre: prose
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: A revised draft of "A Connecticut Case," a piece of Civil War memoranda which was first included in Memoranda During the War (1875–76) and later reprinted in Specimen Days & Collect (1882.

Whitman Archive Title: Thou Vast Rondure, Swimming in Space
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00309
Series: Literary File
Box: 29
Folder: Thou Vast Rondure, Swimming in Space (1868?). Offprint.
Date: between 1868-1869
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 32 x 13.5 cm, printed, handwritten
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Content: An offprint of "Thou Vast Rondure, Swimming in Space," with note at the top reading "J. T. Trowbridge, from W. W." and a note on the verso reading "is to app. in London Fortnightly for April." Though the poem was submitted in either 1868 or 1869, it was never published in the Fortnightly. It was later incorporated in the poem "Passage to India," which was first published in 1871. "Thou Vast Rondure, Swimming in Space" was not published as a separate poem.

Whitman Archive Title: Thou West that gave'st him to us
Whitman Archive ID: loc.07461
Series: Literary File
Box: 26
Folder: Beat! Beat! Drums! (1861). A. MS. draft.
Date: 1865
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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Content: This manuscript consists of poetic lines on the death of Abraham Lincoln, lines that begin with the words "Thou West that gave'st him to us." The lines were not published during Whitman's lifetime, and although they focus on Lincoln's death, do not share direct similarities with "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" or other poems in the "Memories of President Lincoln" cluster. The lines were posthumously published in a Facsimile Edition of Drum-Taps in 1959. On the reverse of this leaf (loc.00051) is a draft of the first stanza of the poem "Beat! Beat! Drums!"