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Catalog of the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts in
the Joel A. Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Rare
Books & Special Collections, Thomas Cooper Library, University of South
Carolina.
Original records created by the Walt Whitman
Archive and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, based on
information from Rare Books & Special Collections, Thomas Cooper Library,
University of South Carolina. Encoded Archival Description completed with the assistance of the Gladys
Kreible Delmas Foundation, the University of Nebraska Research Council, the
Institute for Museum and Library Services, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Title: Walt Whitman Poetry
Manuscripts in the Joel A. Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-Century American
Literature, Rare Books & Special Collections, Thomas Cooper Library, University
of South Carolina
Collection Number: N/A
Creator:
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Repository:
Joel A. Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Rare
Books & Special Collections
Abstract:This catalog was created from a digital image of the original
manuscript and cataloguing information obtained by the Walt
Whitman Archive from the Department of Special Collections, Thomas Cooper
Library, University of South Carolina, where the original manuscript is
held.Scope and Content:
The University of South Carolina has two Whitman poetry manuscripts, described below,
and two photographs of the poet. One of the photographs and one of the manuscripts bear
the signature of Stanley Kimmel on the verso.
Biographical Information:For additional biographical information, see "Walt
Whitman," by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price, and the chronology of Whitman's Life.
Subjects: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892;
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Manuscripts; Poets, American--19th century
Whitman Archive Title: Annex at
69
Whitman Archive ID: usc.00003
Date: about 1888
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 9.2 x 21.3
cm, handwritten
View images: 1
Content: This manuscript contains titles for a contemplated cluster of poems, "Annex at 69" and "Fancies at Navesink & other
pieces 1883 to 88." The poem sequence "Fancies at Navesink" first appeared in the
August
1885 issue of Nineteenth
Century. The eight poems from this sequence were then reprinted
in a section of November
Boughs entitled "Sands at Seventy" in 1888, which then became an annex to Leaves of Grass that same
year. The poems reappeared under the heading "Fancies at Navesink," although still part of
"Sands at Seventy,"
in 1891. The
manuscript was matted, along with a Frederick Gutekunst
photograph of Whitman. Because of the matting, the verso of the manuscript
is not accessible.
Whitman Archive Title: Veil with their lids,
&c
Whitman Archive ID: usc.00001
Repository Title: "Veil with their lids," Manuscript poem
Date: about 1870
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 23 x 14.1, handwritten
View images: 1 | 2
Content: A manuscript of the poem "Penitenzia," unpublished in Whitman's
lifetime. The poem is apparently based on a photograph of Whitman possibly
taken by the photographer, William Kurtz, in the 1860s.
A note at the top of the manuscript, in Whitman's hand, reads, "p. 10
Passage to India," indicating that the poem might have been intended for
inclusion in the volume of that name (Passage to India) published in 1870. An earlier draft of this poem appears in a notebook now in the Feinberg Collection at the Library of Congress and was the basis for a version titled "Mask with Their Lids," published in Clifton J. Furness's Walt Whitman's Workshop and Harold W. Blodgett and Scully Bradley's Leaves of Grass: Comprehensive Reader's Edition.
The lines seem to anticipate the poem, "Out from Behind This Mask," first published in
the New York Tribune on
February 19,
1876.
Restrictions on Original Materials: Please consult with repository.
Preferred Citation: To identify this catalog as a source, see the Archive's "Conditions of Use" page.
Repository Contact Information:
Thomas Cooper Library
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208