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In Whitman's Hand
Poetry Manuscripts
Here you will find transcriptions and page images of Whitman's poetry manuscripts. Work on the poetry manuscripts is ongoing. You may also view an older, HTML transcription with page images of Whitman's sequence of love poems, "Live Oak, with Moss," by clicking here. Finding aids to Whitman's manuscripts, as held in individual repositories, and the Archive's Integrated Guide are available in the Resources section.
Scribal Documents
This section of the Archive offers users transcriptions and page images of approximately 2,000 documents Whitman produced while working as a clerk in the Attorney General’s office, 1865–1873. Another 1,000 documents will be made available here in the upcoming year.
Notebooks from the Library of Congress
This link takes you to the Library of Congress's website devoted to several of the Whitman notebooks in their collections; black and white page images are included.