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Guide to the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts in the Rare Books and Manuscripts, Special Collections, Temple University Libraries, Temple University
Original records created by Rare Books and Manuscripts, Special Collections, Temple University Libraries; revised and expanded by the Walt Whitman Archive and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. Encoded Archival Description completed through the assistance of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the University of Nebraska Research Council, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
Title: Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts in the Rare Books and Manuscripts, Special Collections, Temple University Libraries, Temple University
Collection Number: N/A
Creator:
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Repository: Rare Books and Manuscripts, Special Collections
Abstract:
This finding aid was created from the original finding aid obtained by The Walt Whitman Archive. The original manuscripts and finding aid are held at Temple University.
Scope and Content:
Temple University's Rare Books and Manuscripts, Special Collections Department holds corrected and uncorrected proofs and two drafts of poetic lines in Whitman's hand.
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;
Series Description and Item Lists
Item: 1
Whitman Archive ID: tem.#####
Manuscript ID: MSS. 2519
Title: "Fancies at Navesink"
Date: undated
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 48.4 x 15.2 cm
Flysheet or galley of seven poems, "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." The sequence "Fancies at Navesink" was published first in 1885.
Item: 2
Whitman Archive ID: tem.#####
Manuscript ID: MSS. 2518
Title: "Good-bye My Fancy"
Date: ca. 1891
Physical Description: 9 leaves
Page proofs, perhaps corrected by printer, of "Good-bye My Fancy," which was published first in 1891. Also included on the leaves is "Old Chants," a poem also first published in 1891.
Item: 3
Whitman Archive ID: tem.#####
Manuscript ID: MSS. 2517
Title: "Old Chants"
Date: ca. 1891
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 36.3 x 21.4 cm, handwritten
Included with the proofs of "Good-Bye My Fancy" (MSS. 2518 above) are thirty-three lines of "Old Chants," made of fragments pasted together, with corrections in Whitman's hand. Also included on the page is a note by Horace Traubel reading "Given by Walt Whitman to me and then by me to Will Innes, 1905." On verso: "Henry Curtis printer, Cor: Bridge Ave. & 2d, Camden."
Item: 4
Whitman Archive ID: tem.#####
Manuscript ID: MS. 842-1
Title: "Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone"
Date: ca. 1887
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12 x 15.4 cm
Proof leaf of "Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone," which was published first in 1887, with no corrections on the page.
Item: 5
Whitman Archive ID: tem.#####
Manuscript ID: MS. 821-2
Title: "Old Chants"
Date: ca. 1891
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21.8 x 18 cm
Uncorrected proof of "Old Chants," which was published first in 1891.
Item: 6
Whitman Archive ID: tem.#####
Manuscript ID: MSS. 2531
Title: "[Partial segment of two lines of poetry]"
Date: undated
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 10 x 9 cm, handwritten
Written on the verso of an envelope addressed to Whitman from the Bell, Lewis & Yates Coal Mining Co., Buffalo, New York, are two unidentified lines or partial lines of poetry. The relationship of these lines to Whitman's published work is unknown.
Item: 7
Whitman Archive ID: tem.#####
Manuscript ID: MS. 842-2
Title: "To the Year 1889"
Date: ca. 1888
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12.2 x 15.4 cm
Proof of "To the Year 1889," a poem published first on January 5, 1889, and later published with the revised title "To the Pending Year."
Item: 8
Whitman Archive ID: tem.#####
Manuscript ID: MS. 821-1
Title: "You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me"
Date: ca. 1887
Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12 x 15 cm
Proof of "You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me," a poem first published in 1887.
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Repository Contact Information:
Rare Books and Manuscripts, Special Collections
Temple University Libraries
Paley Library
1210 W. Berks Street
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122