Poetry Manuscripts

Finding Aids for Manuscripts at Individual Repositories

A Guide to the Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts at the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

Original records created by the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library; 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 Kreible Delmas Foundation, the University of Nebraska Research Council, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.

Title: Walt Whitman Poetry Manuscripts in the Papers of Walt Whitman, Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia

Collection Number: MSS 3829, 5604

Creator:  Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892

Repository:  Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, Alderman Memorial Library

Abstract:
This finding aid was created through a comprehensive examination of original manuscripts held at The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

 Scope and Content: 
The Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia holds one of the world's most extensive and varied collections of documents related to Walt Whitman, including drafts of poetry and prose, notes, letters, printed versions of Whitman compositions (many with holograph annotations by the author), photographs, prints, legal documents, a map, and pieces written about Whitman by others. This electronic finding aid includes item-level description of these items.

 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
Boxes: MSS3829 A Carol of Harvest and The Return of the Heroes, pages 1-29
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00129
Title:  "A Carol of Harvest, for 1867"
Date: 1867
 Physical Description: 29 leaves, 19.5 x 12.5, handwritten
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The poem "A Carol of Harvest for 1867" was published first in The Galaxy, September 1867, and reprinted one month later in Tinsely's Magazine (London). A revised version of the poem was added to Passage to India (1871). The 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass includes a further revised version entitled "The Return of the Heroes" . These manuscript pages were likely revised prior to the poem's first publication.

Item: 2
Boxes: MSS3829 Box 1
Folder: Death's Valley
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00073
Title:  "Death's Valley"
Date: about 1889
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 35.5 x 21.5 cm, handwritten
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Whitman's correspondence indicates that the poem was written and sold to Harper's New Monthly Magazine in 1889, although it did not appear there until April 1892, after the poet's death. Whitman originally included the poem in his 1891 manuscript for the "Second Annex" "Good-Bye My Fancy," and Traubel grouped it in the cluster "Old Age Echoes," which he added to Leaves of Grass in 1897. The Harper's printing included an engraving, "The Valley of the Shadow of Death," by American painter George Inness, which appeared facing the poem. On the verso appear the notes "Death's Valley" (twice) and "Magazine/ April, 1892" in, possibly, Whitman executor Horace Traubel's hand.

Item: 3
Boxes: MSS3829 Box 1
Folder: Hast never come to thee in life one hour
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00058
Title:  "Hast never come to thee an hour"
Date: about 1881
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 14 x 22 cm, handwritten
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This manuscript contains two drafts of the poem "Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour," the first draft having been deleted with two horizontal and two diagonal pencil lines. The partly erased word "Interp[ellation?]" appears in the lower left corner. After further revision the poem appeared for the first time in the 1881 Leaves of Grass, in the cluster "By the Roadside." Since the poetry manuscript has been pasted onto a piece of cardboard, the verso is not visible.

Item: 4
Boxes: MSS3829 Box 1
Folder: Inscription at the entrance of Leaves of Grass
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00060
Title:  "Inscription"
Date: between 1855 and 1867
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 19.5 x 12.5 cm, handwritten
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This manuscript entitled "Inscription" appears to be a revision of other "Inscriptions" Whitman gathered in a notebook, along with prose drafts for a never-finished introduction to Leaves of Grass, and attached to his copy of the 1855 paper-bound edition. (The entire collection of draft "inscription" and introductory material is currently housed at the New York Public Library.) In the 1867 Leaves of Grass Whitman culled material from this poem and the other "Inscription" poems to create an italicized "Inscription" that he placed before "Starting from Paumanok" at the beginning of the book; in that edition he also transferred part of verse 2 to "As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shore" (later the line was dropped and the title was revised to "By Blue Ontario's Shore" ). From 1872 onward, this poem, revised and retitled "One's-Self I Sing," was printed as the first of several poems in the "Inscriptions" cluster that opened the book. In the 1888 November Boughs, however, Whitman reprinted the 1867 version as "Small the Theme of my Chant." Note: This manuscript draft may have been written before the Civil War, since it does not include the 1867 line "My Days I sing, and the Lands—with interstice I knew / of hapless War." Glue marks found on the verso indicate that this manuscript was at one time joined with the "[Epos of Life]" manuscript now held at The Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College.

Item: 5
Boxes: MSS3829 Box 1
Folder: My picture gallery
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00061
Title:  "My picture gallery"
Date: between 1850 and 1880
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 10 x 15.5 cm, handwritten
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Originally titled "Pictures," this manuscript is a revision of the first four verses of a draft poem by that name, inscribed by Whitman in a twenty-nine page notebook before the first edition of Leaves of Grass appeared in 1855. The notes "? for children" and "extend this?" appear in the upper left corner. The final verse appears in the upper right corner. After further revision Whitman published these verses in the October 30, 1880 issue of The American under the title "My Picture-Gallery," after which he placed it in the new cluster "Autumn Rivulets" in the 1881 edition.

Item: 6
Boxes: MSS3829 Box 1
Folder: Song of the Redwood Tree
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00064
Title:  "Song of the Redwood Tree"
Date: about 1873
 Physical Description: 20 leaves, 11 x 12.5 cm to 22.5 x 17.5 cm, handwritten
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This manuscript contains a rough draft of the poem "Song of the Redwood-Tree" written, according to a note initialed by Whitman, during October and November 1873 prior to its first publication in the February 1874 issue of Harper's Magazine. In 1876 the poem was published in the group "Centennial Songs" and annexed to Two Rivulets. The poem appears ungrouped again in Leaves of Grass (1881). Several leaves contain deleted and undeleted titles or variant verse references to other published poems: "Eidólons" , "Waves in the Vessel's Wake" , "(a sonnet)" written "for Century Verses," which appears from a Library of Congress manuscript to have been a working title of the group that became "Centennial Verses" and "A California song" .

Item: 7
Boxes: MSS3829 Box 1
Folder: Song of the Redwood Tree [I/ A California song]
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00067
Title:  "Song of the Redwood Tree"
Date: about 1873
 Physical Description: 11 leaves, , handwritten
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This manuscript contains a rough draft of the poem "Song of the Redwood-Tree" written, according to a note intialed by Whitman, during October and November 1873 prior to its first publication in the February 1874 issue of Harper's Magazine. In 1876 the poem was published in the group "Centennial Songs" and annexed to Two Rivulets. The poem appears ungrouped again in Leaves of Grass (1881). The similarities between this manuscript draft and the Harper's edition of the poem seem to indicate that Whitman revised these pages in preparation for the first publication.

Item: 8
Boxes: MSS3829 Box 1
Folder: Songs of Departure
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00069
Title:  "Songs of Departure"
Date: about 1881
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12 x 19.5 cm, handwritten
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This manuscript appears to have been a trial cover leaf for the cluster "Songs of Parting," new to the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. Whitman struck out the words "A few" above the current title, but left undeleted four other possibilities at the top of the leaf: "Songs of Departure/ Departing,/ Termination/ Completion."

Item: 9
Boxes: MSS3829 Box 1
Folder: Three Verses—One for North, etc.
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00071
Title:  "Three Verses"
Date: 1860s or 1870s
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 22.5 x 13.5 cm, handwritten
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This manuscript contains possible notes for two poems "[One?] Song—Come Philander" and "Three verses" which appears beneath a horizontal line. The poems were apparently never revised further and were never published. The leaf has been folded in half, and the verso contains two independent texts. One is a list of names and addresses including family memembers, friends, and supporters. The other seems to be notes for a newspaper announcement, beginning "Walt Whitman, after an absence of almost three years, appeared again on Pennsylvania Avenue this forenoon." Based on this date it can be speculated that the notes were written late in 1875 (a possibility corroborated by the list of names), but the poem(s) may have been inscribed in the late 1860s or earlier.

Item: 10
Boxes: MSS3829 Box 1
Folder: ALS Walt Whitman to [?] [note]
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00051
Title:  "Embers of Ending Day"
Date: between 1880 and 1888
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 9.5 cm x 11 cm, handwritten
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The manuscript appears to be a draft of a title or titles. The lines on the manuscript—"Embers of Ending Day," "Embers of day-fires mouldering"—are echoed in the partial line "the embers left from earlier fires" in the 1888 poem, "Continuities." On the verso is a note, dated December 28, 1880, confirming a request for a set of Whitmans's books: "Dear Sir, I shall be glad to supply you with a set (Two Volumes) of my books—There is only one kind of binding—Walt Whitman."

Item: 11
Boxes: MSS3829 Box 1
Folder: A Thought of Columbus
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00070
Title:  "A Thought of Columbus"
Date: 1891
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12.5 cm x 25 cm, handwritten
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A draft of "A Thought of Columbus," a poem first published on July 16, 1892, in Once a Week, accompanied by Horace Traubel's account of its composition, called "Walt Whitman's Last Poem." This manuscript is a draft of only the first six lines and is dated 1891.

Item: 12
Boxes: MSS3829 Box 2
Folder: (Advertisement of WW's Works, 1876 ed.) and All Fragment
Title:  "[Of All themes and of each]" "From the New Republic"
Date: about 1876
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 19.5 cm x 8.5 cm and 5.5 cm x 19.5 cm, handwritten
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The manuscript contains heavily revised draft lines written in pencil beginning "Of all themes and of each." The reverse is a printed advertisement with ink notes for Whitman's 1876 works, Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets. Whitman has stricken through most of the printed text, leaving two paragraphs bracketed off next to which he has written: "Would this be available to work in for an item? Should like to have it spread—W.W."

Item: 13
Boxes: MSS3829 Box 2
Folder: They do not seem to me
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00110
Title:  "They do not seem to me"
Date: about 1860
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 13 cm x 11.5 cm, handwritten
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This manuscript is a draft of lines that were published in "Chants Democratic," number 13, in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. That poem was later revised and published as "Laws for Creations" ; however, the lines on this manuscript are a draft of the section of the poem that was deleted after the 1860 publication.

Item: 14
Boxes: MSS3829 Box 2
Folder: The Whale-boat [Memoranda from Books sect. 114, last pt.]
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00117
Title:  "The Whale-boat"
Date: late 1850s
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 cm x 12 cm, handwritten
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This manuscript contains notes about whales that mirror a passage about whales published in "Song of Myself" . A direct relationship of this manuscript to Whitman's published work is unknown, although a possible relationship also exists with drafts of the poem "The Sleepers" in which Whitman was working with the idea of a whale being harpooned. These notes may be a continuation of notes written on two separate scraps and held at Duke University (The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library), "The Whale," MS 4to 88.

Item: 15
Boxes: MSS3829 Box 2
Folder: [A cluster of poems]
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00086
Title:  "[A cluster of poems]"
Date: about 1859
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 19.5 x 15.5 cm, handwritten
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These notes for a cluster of poems that Whitman characterisizes as being "in the same way as Calamus Leaves expressing the idea and sentiment of Happiness . . . " appear on the verso of a page of prose notes for a poem or essay to be titled "Living Pictures" or "America." These notes mirror thoughts and expressions contained in the 1855 Preface. The manuscript lists various occupations and includes the phrase "not one jot less than" factors which bear relation to the poem eventually titled "Song for Occupations" appearing for the first time as an untitled poem in the 1855 edition. Whitman's use of the old long "s" in the word "less" indicates that the leaf was inscribed quite early in his poetic career. Whitman's use of the title "Calamus Leaves" on the opposite side, as in some very similar notes currently housed at Duke University, point toward the 1860 cluster "Enfans d'Adam" and dates the notes to some point in the late spring of 1859.

Item: 16
Boxes: MSS3829 Box 2
Folder: After the Supper and Talk
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00082
Title:  "After the Supper and Talk"
Date: about 1885
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 25 x 20 cm, handwritten
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A draft of "After the Supper and Talk" . This poem was rejected by Harper's in 1885 but published in Lippincott's Magazine in November 1887, after which it eventually became the final poem in the "First Annex" titled "Sands at Seventy." To the verso are pasted sections 16 and 18-19 of "Poem of Joys" (final title: "A Song of Joys" ) clipped either from the independent book Passage to India (1871) or from the "Passage to India" supplement to Leaves of Grass.

Item: 17
Boxes: MSS3829 Box 2
Folder: The dalliance of the eagles
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00092
Title:  "The dalliance of the eagles"
Date: about 1880
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 12 x 19 cm, handwritten
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The poem was first published in the November 1880 issue of Cope's Tobacco Plant and became one of the new poems in the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass, where it appeared in the cluster "By the Roadside." At some point this leaf was pasted to a cardboard print of a photograph of Whitman stamped "Thomas C. Watkins" on the verso, but almost identical to one attributed by Henry Scholey Saunders, author of 100 Walt Whitman Photographs, to the studio of Frederick Gutekunst in Philadelphia, and reproduced in the 1889 pocket edition of Leaves of Grass.

Item: 18
Boxes: MSS3829 Box 2
Folder: To a Literat
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00114
Title:  "To a Literat"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 1 leaf
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The first two verses, taken more or less directly from a prose manuscript, "[Of Biography]," have no revisions, but the remaining three verses represent a significant expansion of the themes in the prose notes and are extensively revised. These verses, which precede "[Walt Whitman's law]" in the composition process, correspond, like "[Of Biography]," to section 13 of the 1860 version of the poem "Chants Democratic and Native American" which was revised and permanently retitled "Laws for Creations" in 1872.

Item: 19
Boxes: MSS3829 Box 2
Folder: [Walt Whitman's law]
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00115
Title:  "[Walt Whitman's law]"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 1 leaf
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This leaf bears the deleted title "To an artist, literat, &c" . The first line "Come, I have now to tell you" revises and expands on another manuscript "To a Literat" . These lines were eventually revised to form section 13 of the 1860 version of the poem "Chants Democratic" which was revised and permanently retitled "Laws for Creations" in 1872.

Item: 20
Boxes: MSS3829 Box 2
Folder: The Mystic Trumpeter
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00098
Title:  "[Hark! some wild trumpeter]"
Date: about 1872
 Physical Description: 9 leaves, 25 x 19.5 cm, handwritten
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"The Mystic Trumpeter" was first published in the February 1872 issue of The Kansas Magazine, after which Whitman published it in the 1872 book As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free, in the 1876 Two Rivulets, and in the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass. There and in later editions the poem was included in "From Noon to Starry Night." Other drafts of the poem are housed in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection at the Library of Congress, the Trent Memorial Collection at Duke University, and the T.E. Hanley Collection at the University of Texas.

Item: 21
Boxes: MSS3829 Box 2
Folder: Poem of Fables
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00103
Title:  "Poem of Fables"
Date: 1850s
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 20 x 12 cm, handwritten
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Two sets of deleted verses constitute adaptations of lines from Whitman's pre-1855 unpublished notebook "Pictures" "Now this is the fable of the mirror" and "And Now this is the fable of a beautiful statue." Two other deleted potential fables ideas also appear: "The trained runner" and "The five old men." At the foot of the leaf appears the note "last piece (still another Death Song— Death Song with prophecies." All of the sections are demarcated with horizontal lines. Based on Whitman's use of the tax blank, the manuscript appears to be a set of notes he made between 1857 and 1859 while preparing the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. The "Poem of Fables" as such never materialized, but a poem simply titled "Fables" was incorporated into the second section of the poem "Passage to India" , first published in 1871. Whitman's "Pictures" were not published in their entirety until 1925. Whitman uses the phrase "well-train'd runner" in "The Runner" , a poem which first appeared in Leaves of Grass in 1867.

Item: 22
Boxes: MSS3829 Box 2
Folder: Sail Out for Good
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00106
Title:  "[But outset and sure]"
Date: about 1891
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 17.5 x 21.5 cm, handwritten
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This manuscript contains trial verses for the poem "Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht!," first published in the March 1891 issue of Lippincott's Magazine in a group titled "Old-Age Echoes" . The top part of this manuscript has been cut away, leaving the emendations to what would become line 5 of the poem only partly visible. Whitman grouped "Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht!" in his "Second Annex," titled "Good-Bye My Fancy" , to the 1891 edition of Leaves of Grass. The pencil note "Sail Out for good, Eidólon Yacht / Good Bye My Fancy / Page 7" appears in the lower left corner, below two new drafts of the ending lines.

Item: 23
Boxes: MSS3829 Box 2
Folder: Song of the Answerer
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00118
Title:  "[Time always without break]"
Date: 1887
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 28 x 21.5 cm, handwritten
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This manuscript contains two lines from Whitman's poem "Song of the Answerer." This fair copy was evidently made for an admirer: it includes Whitman's autograph in large letters above the lines "Camden New Jersey / March 14 1887—." The lines from the poem are quoted without revision from the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass, followed by the citation "(L of Grass—p 137)," which refers to the 1881 system of pagination. These lines come from the first verse paragraph of section 2 of the poem. This section began as the independent composition "19—Poem of The Singers, and of The Words of Poems" in 1856, after which it underwent various changes in content, title, and position until being joined with "Now List to My Morning Romanza" in 1881.

Item: 24
Boxes: MSS3829 Box 2
Folder: [Lo]
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00112
Title:  "[Lo, where arise three peerless stars]"
Date: 1886
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 25 x 19.5 cm, handwritten
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This manuscript is a signed fair copy of three verses from numbered section 6 of the 1881 Leaves of Grass version of a poem published under the title "Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood" ; his note "Leaves of Grass/ page 350," corresponding to the pagination of the 1881 edition, appears beneath the lines. Whitman seems to have prepared this copy for an admirer, with his signature appearing in huge letters above the lines "Camden New Jersey / April 19 1886—."

Item: 25
Boxes: MSS3829 Box 2
Folder: [The Time and Lands]
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00113
Title:  "[The Time and Lands]"
Date: about 1872
 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 18.5 x 18.5 cm to 20 x 18 cm, handwritten
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The first two entries on Leaf 1 appear to contain general notes for a poem; the second entry reads, "Make a demand for the Ideal, (or rather idea of the Ideal of the real)." The lines are followed by the note "in the piece," which leads up to several trial verses eventually incorporated in the second verse paragraph of numbered section 5 of "Thou Mother With Thy Equal Brood." The accompanying leaf contains general notes about creating a song or chant to celebrate America and her "best men." A cartoon hand singles out the lines "All the states / East & west, / north & south / Brotherhood / an equal union" which prefigure the whole poem, but particularly such lines as "South, North, West, East, / (To thy immortal breasts, Mother of All, thy every daughter, / son, endear'd alike, forever equal,)" in the same section projected on Leaf 1. The poem "Thou Mother With Thy Equal Brood" was composed with the title "As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free" and presented as the Dartmouth commencement poem on June 26, 1872. The poem was first published in a volume of the same name with seven other poems also in 1872.

Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 1
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00179
Title:  "Premonition"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 33 leaves
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Thirty-three manuscript leaves numbered consecutively by Whitman in the lower left corner. "Premonition" was published as the introductory poem to the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass under the title "Proto-Leaf." In the 1867 and later editions it appeared directly after the opening poem "Inscription" as "Starting from Paumanok." On the verso of leaf 15 and part of leaf 16 appears a draft of what would become section 11 of "Calamus" in the 1860 Leaves of Grass.

Item: 27
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 2, Page 1
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00180
Title:  "Leaves-Droppings"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 16 x 10 cm, handwritten
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After being incorporated as the first main section of "Enfans d'Adam" in 1860, this poem received its own title, "To the Garden, the World" in the 1867 Leaves of Grass and retained its position in the "Children of Adam" group.

Item: 28
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 2, Page 2
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00181
Title:  "You and I"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 3 leaves, all leaves 21 x 13 cm, handwritten
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Originally numbered 84, this poem appeared in the 1860 Leaves of Grass as main section 7 of "Enfans d'Adam," and was retitled within the group "We Two—How Long We Were Fool'd" in 1867.

Item: 29
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 2, Page 3
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00182
Title:  "[Now the hour has come upon me]"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 2 leaves, leaf 1 18.5 x 16 cm, leaf 2 11 x 16 cm, handwritten
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This poem, numbered 82 in pencil, became main section 8 of "Enfans d'Adam" in 1860, and was permanently retitled within the group "Native Moments" in 1867.

Item: 30
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 2, Page 4
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00183
Title:  "[Once I passed through a populous]" "I am the child of Democracy"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 20 x 16 cm, handwritten
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The recto verses appearing on this manuscript became the main section 9 of "Enfans d'Adam" in 1860 and were retitled "Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City" in 1867. On the verso appear two fragments: an undeleted verse that would be used in Satan's section of "Chanting the Square Deific" in "Sequel to Drum-Taps" (1865-66); and what would become section 23 of "Proto-Leaf" , which becomes "Starting from Paumanok" in 1867. The undeleted verse is upside-down relative to the deleted section.

Item: 31
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 2, Page 5
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00184
Title:  "Hindustan"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 12.5 cm, handwritten
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The number 80 appears above the deleted 79 above the title, along with a pencil question mark in parentheses. This poem was revised to form main section 10 of "Enfans d'Adam" in 1860, and in 1867 was given two new opening lines and retitled "Facing West from California's Shores."

Item: 32
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 1
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00244
Title:  "Calamus—1st draft p. 341 [Long I was held]"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 16 x 10 cm, handwritten
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This manuscript became section 1 of "Calamus" in 1860, and was retitled "In Paths Untrodden" in the 1867 Leaves of Grass.

Item: 33
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 2
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00246
Title:  "[Was it I who walked the]" "Scented Herbage of My Breast"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 1 leaf that folds out, 21.5 x 16 cm, handwritten
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These leaves comprise two sections of a poem inscribed (with very few alterations) on the first and third sides of a folded half-sheet of paper. On the first side of the folded leaf a blue pencil was used to correct a pencil number 7 to a 1, and on the third side the blue pencil corrected a pencil 8 to a 2. The five verses beginning "Was it I who walked the / earth..." were not used in "Calamus," but the five lines beginning "Scented herbage of my breast" became the opening verses of section 2 of the cluster in the 1860 Leaves of Grass. In the 1867 and later editions the first line was used as the title of the poem.

Item: 34
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 3
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00243
Title:  "[I do not know whether]"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 5 leaves, 20 x 16 cm, handwritten
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The verses on the recto became lines 6-40 of section 2 of "Calamus" in the 1860 edition. Section 2 of the Calamus group was permanently retitled "Scented Herbage of my Breast" in 1867. On the verso appears a draft of an editorial, "Important Questions in Brooklyn.—," which Whitman apparently never published but which seems to have inspired at least two published editorials on the Brooklyn Water Works and the political quarrels surrounding control of the project. The editorials appeared in the Brooklyn Times of March 15 and 16, 1859.

Item: 35
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 8
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00330
Title:  "[These I, singing in spring]"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 4 leaves, 20 x 16 cm, handwritten
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These leaves comprise four sections of a poem inscribed on the first and third sides of two folded half-sheets (20 x 16 cm) of the same white wove paper used for 1:3:1 and 1:3:2, in the same light brown ink and, like them, with only minor revisions. The pages were folded and pinned together to form a small pamphlet. Pinholes mostly at center-top and in what was the left margin of the pamphlet. The lines on page 1 became verses 1-8 of section 4 of "Calamus." in 1860; page 2 ("Solitary, smelling the earthy/ smell,...") became verses 9-14; page 3 ("Here lilac with a branch of/ pine,") became verses 15-22; and page 4 ("And stems of currants, and/ plum-blows,") became verses 23-28. From 1867 on the poem was titled "These I, Singing in Spring."

Item: 36
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 9
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00322
Title:  "[Of the doubts]"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21.5 x 12 cm, handwritten
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On two light blue Williamsburgh tax blanks (21.5 x 12 cm), in light brown ink, with minor revisions. A few pinholes at the head and in the center. A blue pencil question mark appears to the left of the first line on the second form. The lines on the first leaf became verses 1-9 of section 7 of "Calamus" in 1860, and the second leaf's lines ("To me all these, and the/ like of these,..."] became verses 10-16. Retitled "Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances" in 1867.

Item: 37
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 10
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00321
Title:  "[Long I thought that knowledge]"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 3 leaves, leaves 1 and 2 15 x 9.5 cm; leaf 3 6.5 x 9.5 cm, handwritten
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On three pieces of white wove paper (the first two 15 x 9.5 cm, the third 6.5 x 9.5 cm), in black ink, with revisions in the same ink and in pencil. Whitman also penciled in the numbers 7, 8, and 8 1/2 in the lower-left corner of each page. Pinholes at the head and in the center of each page. This was the fifth poem of the original sequence "Live Oak, with Moss" ; the poem number is inscribed ornamentally, as with the Roman numerals Whitman used for other "Live Oak" poems, and a wavy line appears after the last verse. The lines on the first leaf became verses 1-5 of section 8 of "Calamus" in 1860; the second leaf's lines ("Take notice, you Kanuck woods") became verses 6-10; and the lines on the half-page ("I am indifferent to my own/ songs—") became verses 11-12. There were no further appearances of this poem during the poet's lifetime, Whitman having canceled it in his "Blue Book Copy" of the 1860 Leaves.

Item: 38
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 11
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00314
Title:  "[Hours continuing long]"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 2 leaves, leaf 1 9.5 x 9 cm; leaf 2 14.5 x 9 cm pasted to 5 x 9.5 cm, handwritten
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On two pieces of white wove paper, the first cut down to 9.5 x 9 cm and the second comprising two sections (14.5 x 9 and 5 x 9.5 cm) joined by means of a strip of pink paper. In brown-black ink, with revisions in the same ink and in pencil. Pinholes mostly at top and in center of leaves. Whitman penciled in the numbers 11 and 12 (apparently over other numbers) in the lower-left corner of each page; his partly erased pencil note "(finished in/ the other city)" appears on the first page. The ornamental number "VIII" replaces a deleted ornamental "IX" on the first page, and the top of another "IX" appears at the foot of the second page, beneath a wavy line indicating the end of the poem. Whitman removed the lower section of page 2 from the top of current leaf 1:3:33 ("I dreamed in a dream of a/ city..."). This poem, the eighth in the sequence "Live Oak, with Moss," became section 9 of "Calamus" in 1860. This was its only appearance in Leaves. The first page contains what would become verses 1-3 in 1860, and the second ("Hours discouraged, distracted,") contains lines 4-12.

Item: 39
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 12
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00340
Title:  "[You bards of ages hence]"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 2 leaves, leaf 1 8 x 9 cm; leaf 2 14.5 x 9.5 cm pasted to 5.5 x 9.5 cm, handwritten
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On two sections of white wove paper, the first cut down to 8 x 9 cm and the second a composite of two pieces pasted together, the top measuring 14.5 x 9.5 and the bottom 5.5 x 9.5 cm. In black ink, with a few revisions in the same ink. Pinholes at top and in center of both pages. Whitman numbered the first 9 1/2 and the second 10, in pencil, in the lower-left corner of each leaf. The Roman numeral is inscribed in an ornamental style, and the poem terminates with a wavy line. The seventh poem in the sequence "Live Oak, with Moss," became section 10 of "Calamus" in 1860 and was permanently retitled "Recorders Ages Hence" in 1867. The lines on the first page correspond to verses 1-3 of the 1860 version, and those on the second page ("Publish my name and hang up/ my picture...") to lines 4-11.

Item: 40
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 13
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00339
Title:  "[When I heard at the close of]"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 15 x 9.5 cm, handwritten
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On two leaves of white wove paper, both measuring 15 x 9.5 cm; the lower half of the second page is pasted over with a section of white paper (8 x 9 cm) containing four revised verses. In black ink, with revisions in the same ink and in pencil. Pinholes mostly at top of both pages. Whitman numbered the pages 4 and 5, in pencil, in their lower-left corners. The third section of "Live Oak, with Moss" (with ornamental Roman numeral), this poem became section 11 of "Calamus" in 1860 and was permanently retitled "When I Heard at the Close of the Day" in 1867. For an earlier draft of the poem numbered V please see the verso of leaves 15-16 of "Premonition" (1:1:15-16). Bowers (p. 88) supplies the three earlier lines concealed by the paste-on revision to the second leaf. The lines on the first page correspond to verses 1-5 of the 1860 version, and those on the second page ("And when I thought how/ my friend,...") to lines 6-13.

Item: 41
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 14
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00332
Title:  "To a new personal admirer"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 2 leaves, leaf 1 13 x 11.5 cm; leaf 2 20 x 16 cm, handwritten
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On two pieces of white wove paper, 13 x 11.5 and 20 x 16 cm, in brown-black ink, with substantial revisions in the same ink. Pinholes mostly at center and in left margins of both pages. This poem, featuring a new first line, became section 12 of "Calamus" in 1860; in 1867 Whitman dropped the last 2 1/2 lines and permanently retitled it "Are you the New Person Drawn Toward Me?" The first page contains verses corresponding to lines 2-3 of the 1860 version, and the lines on the second page ("Do you suppose you can easily/ be my lover,...") became verses 4-11.

Item: 42
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 15
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00308
Title:  "Buds"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21.5 x 13 cm, handwritten
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On pink leaf (21.5 x 13 cm), in black ink, with minor revisions in the same ink.A few pinholes at top and near center. A pencil question mark appears in parentheses in the upper-right corner. The number 52 appears to have been revised from 51. After adding several verses, Whitman designated this poem section 13 of "Calamus" in the 1860 Leaves, and, after dropping the first two and last three lines of the 1860 version, permanently retitled it "Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone" in 1867.

Item: 43
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 16
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00310
Title:  "Calamus-Leaves"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 15 x 9 cm, handwritten
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On white wove leaf, 15 x 9 cm, in black ink, with the title "Live Oak, with Moss" stricken out and "Calamus-Leaves" added in light brown ink, and with one small revision in blue pencil. Whitman numbered this page 1 in pencil. The first section of the original sequence "Live Oak, with Moss," this became section 14 of "Calamus" in 1860 and was permanently retitled "Not Heat Flames up and Consumes" in the 1867 Leaves.

Item: 44
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 17
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00311
Title:  "Confession-Drops"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21.5 x 12 cm, handwritten
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Written on a light blue Williamsburgh tax blank, this poem became section 15 of "Calamus" in 1860, and, with the addition of a new first line, was retitled "Trickle, Drops" in 1867.

Item: 45
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 18
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00317
Title:  "43—Leaf"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21.5 x 13 cm, handwritten
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The original title was "Leaflet." On the second page Whitman added, in a combination of normal and blue pencil, the number 43 (1/2). With the addition of a new first line ("1. Who is now reading this?") the poem became section 16 of "Calamus" in 1860; the lines on the first draft page correspond to verses 2-8 and those on the second page ("Or as if interior in me") to verses 9-10. This was the first and last appearance of the poem during Whitman's lifetime: he rejected it from his "Blue Book Copy" of Leaves of Grass in 1860.

Item: 46
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 19
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00325
Title:  "Poemet"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten
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On two pink leaves (21 x 13 cm), in black ink, with revisions in the same ink and in light ink. Pinholes in center, at top, and in top-left corner. This poem was originally titled "Leaf" and apparently numbered 78; Whitman inscribed its new title, "Poemet," in light ink. It became section 17 of "Calamus" in 1860, with the lines on the first leaf corresponding to verses 1-7 and those on the second ("And what I dreamed I will/ henceforth tell...") to verses 8-13 of the first published version. Retitled "Of Him I Love Day and Night" in 1867, it was transferred to the "Whispers of Heavenly Death" cluster in Passage to India in 1871. In 1881 Whitman incorporated it, with the rest of the cluster, in the main body of Leaves.

Item: 47
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 20
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00023
Title:  "[City of my walks and joys]"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 8.5 x 10 cm pasted to 20 x 16 cm, handwritten
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On a composite leaf consisting of two pieces of white wove paper. The smaller section is pasted over some lines in the top-left corner of the larger piece, from the top of which other lines were cut off. On the verso of the larger piece appears an extensively revised pencil draft of the first poem in "Enfans d'Adam" . The group first appeard in print in 1860 with this poem as section 1. The poem was permanently titled "To the Garden of the World" in 1867. The verses on the current recto of the composite leaf became section 18 of "Calamus" in 1860; the poem was permanently titled "City of Orgies" in 1867.

Item: 48
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 21
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00316
Title:  "[I saw in Louisiana a]"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 15 x 9.5 cm, handwritten
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On two leaves of white wove paper, both 15 x 9.5 cm, in black ink, with extensive revisions in the same ink, in light brown ink, and in pencil. Pinholes mostly at top and in center of both pages. Whitman numbered the pages 2 and 3 in pencil. This was originally the second section of the sequence "Live Oak, with Moss" (one of the deleted lines reads "I write/ these pieces, and name/ them after it [the Louisiana live-oak];"), with ornamental Roman numeral. It became section 20 of "Calamus" in 1860; the lines on the first manuscript page correspond to verses 1-7, and those on the second ("It is not needed to remind/ me...") to verses 8-13. The poem was retitled "I saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing" in 1867.

Item: 49
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 22
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00307
Title:  "As of Eternity"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten
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On two leaves of pink paper, both 21 x 13 cm, in black ink, with minor revisions in the same ink. Pinholes mostly in center and at top of both pages. This poem became section 21 of "Calamus" in 1860; the lines on the first manuscript page became verses 1-6, and those on the second ("I hear not the volumes of/ sound merely—...") became 7-9. Retitled "That Music Always Round Me" in 1867, it was transferred in 1871 to the "Whispers of Heavenly Death" cluster in Passage to India. In 1881 Whitman incorporated it, with the rest of the cluster, in the main body of Leaves.

Item: 50
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 23
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00334
Title:  "To A Stranger"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 2 leaves, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten
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On two leaves of pink paper, both 21 x 13 cm, in black ink, with revisions in the same ink and in light ink. Pinholes mostly in center and in left margin of each page. This poem was first numbered 94, and the first word was "Stranger"; Whitman penciled in a question mark, in parentheses, next to the title. It was numbered section 22 of "Calamus" in 1860: the lines on the first page correspond to verses 1-6 of the 1860 version, and those on the second ("You give me the pleasure") to verses 7-10. Whitman reintroduced the title "To a Stranger" in the 1867 Leaves.

Item: 51
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Pag 24
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00331
Title:  "[This moment as I sit alone]"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, cm, handwritten
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On one leaf of white wove paper, in dark brown ink, with revisions in pencil. Pinholes in center and at top. Whitman penciled in the number 6 in the lower-left corner. The fourth poem in the original sequence "Live Oak, with Moss" (with ornamental Roman numeral), it became section 23 of "Calamus" in 1860 and was permanently retitled "This Moment, Yearning and Thoughtful" in 1867.

Item: 52
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 25
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00326
Title:  "Prairie-Grass"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21 x 13 cm, handwritten
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On one leaf of pink paper (21 x 13 cm), in black ink, with revisions in an even blacker ink and in pencil. Pinholes in center. The poem was originally numbered 53. In 1860 Whitman designated it section 25 of "Calamus," transforming the title into a new first line and expanding the original first line into verses 2-4. In 1867 he further revised it, permanently retitling it "The Prairie-Grass Dividing."

Item: 53
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 27
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00319
Title:  "Leaf [O dying! Always dying!]"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21.5 x 12 cm, handwritten
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On one light blue Williamsburgh tax blank (21.5 x 12 cm), in dark brown ink, with revisions in fine pen and pencil. Whitman penciled in a question mark, in parentheses, next to the title. With the addition of the new first line "O love!" this became section 27 of "Calamus" in 1860. In the 1867 Leaves it was retitled "O Living Always—Always Dying!" Whitman next transferred it to the "Passage to India" supplement bound in with Leaves, where it reappeared in 1876; in the 1881 Leaves Whitman permanently added it to the cluster "Whispers of Heavenly Death."

Item: 54
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 28
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00318
Title:  "Leaf [A promise to Indiana]"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 22 x 13 cm, handwritten
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On one leaf of pink paper (22 x 13 cm), in black ink, with revisions in the same ink. Pinholes mostly in center. The original title was "Leaflet," and the original number seems to have been 70. After substantial revision (including the addition of the new first line "A promise and gift to California,") this poem became section 30 of "Calamus" in 1860. Whitman further revised the poem before including it, permanently retitled "A Promise to California," in the 1867 Leaves.

Item: 55
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 29
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00320
Title:  "Leaf [What place is besieged]"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 21.5 x 13 cm, handwritten
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On one leaf of pink paper (21.5 x 13 cm), in black ink, with a fair copy of the poem at the bottom of the leaf and a deleted draft featuring heavy revisions in the same ink and in pencil at the top. This poem was originally numbered 68, and its title was "Leaflet—." In 1860 it became the second numbered verse paragraph of section 31 of "Calamus." In 1867 Whitman split up the two paragraphs and made them separate poems; these verses were moved to a position between the "Calamus" and a "Leaves of Grass" cluster and permanently retitled "What Place Is Besieged?" In 1881 the poem was transferred to the cluster "Inscriptions."

Item: 56
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 30
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00313
Title:  "[Here the frailest leaves of me]"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 15 x 9.5 cm, handwritten
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On one leaf of white wove paper (15 x 9.5 cm), in medium-brown ink, with one revision in the same ink. Pinholes mostly at top and in center. The two sets of verses are divided by a short horizontal line. In 1860 the first set, with the addition of a new first line ("Here my last words, and the most baffling,") became section 44 of "Calamus" ; the poem was permanently retitled "Here the Frailest Leaves of Me" , and the new first line dropped, in 1867. The second set was revised to form section 38 of "Calamus" in 1860; in 1867 it was further revised and retitled "Fast Anchor'd, Eternal, O Love."

Item: 57
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 31
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00306
Title:  "[A leaf for hand-in-hand]"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 14.5 x 9 cm, handwritten
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On one leaf of white wove paper (14.5 x 9 cm), in black ink, with revisions in pencil. Pinholes in center and at top. A blue-pencil number 3 appears in the upper right corner over an erased 9. With substantial additions and revisions this evolved into section 37 of "Calamus" in 1860; after further revision it became "A Leaf for Hand in Hand" in 1867.

Item: 58
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 32
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00312
Title:  "[Earth]"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 14.5 x 9.5 cm, handwritten
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On one leaf of white wove paper (14.5 x 9.5 cm), in brown-black ink, with revisions in lighter ink (including the deletion, undone in 1860, of the phrase "My likeness!" after "Earth!"). Pinholes mostly at top and in center. Whitman penciled in the number 15 in the lower-left corner. Originally poem XI in the sequence "Live Oak, with Moss" (with the Roman numeral ornamentally drawn), this was revised to become section 36 of "Calamus" in 1860. In 1867 Whitman retitled the poem "Earth! My Likeness!"

Item: 59
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 33
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00315
Title:  "[I dreamed in a dream of a]"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 9.5 x 9 cm, handwritten
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On one leaf of white wove paper cut down to 9.5 x 9 cm, in brown-black ink, with revisions in pencil. Pinholes at top and in center. Whitman numbered the leaf 13, in pencil, in the lower-left corner. The excised top portion of the leaf became the bottom section of page 2 of 1:3:11, the poem (eighth in the sequence "Live Oak, with Moss" ) beginning "Hours continuing long, sore/ and heavy-hearted..." In 1860 this poem was substantially revised to form section 34 of "Calamus" ; in 1867 it was retitled "I Dreamed in a Dream."

Item: 60
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 34
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00338
Title:  "[What think you I have]"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 8.5 x 9 cm pasted to 6.5 x 9 cm, handwritten
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On a composite leaf of white wove paper consisting of two sections (8.5 x 9 and 6.5 x 9 cm) pasted together. Both sections are in black ink but, as Bowers notes, the lower verses were inscribed using a darker, thicker pen; the upper section is unrevised, but the lower section bears several alterations in the original ink. Pinholes at top of both sections and in the current center. Whitman numbered the page 9, in pencil, in the lower-left corner. Originally the sixth section of the sequence "Live Oak, with Moss," this poem was revised to form section 32 of "Calamus" in 1860, and in 1867 was retitled "What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?"

Item: 61
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 35
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00328
Title:  "[Sometimes]"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 15 x 9.5 cm, handwritten
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On one leaf of white wove paper (15 x 9.5 cm), in light brown ink, with one revision in the same ink. Pinholes at top and in center. A blue pencil mark, possibly the number 4, has been inscribed in the upper right corner. Bowers notes that the page bears the imprint of a papermaker's lozenge die, perhaps that of Platner and Smith of Lee, Massachusetts. This poem became section 39 of "Calamus" in 1860; in 1867 Whitman replaced the third line with a new one and permanently retitled the poem "Sometimes with One I Love."

Item: 62
Boxes: MSS3829 Leaves of Grass, Volume 1
Folder: 3, Page 36
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00337
Title:  "[To the young man]"
Date: 1857-1859
 Physical Description: 1 leaf, 15 x 9 cm, handwritten
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On one leaf of white wove paper (15 x 9 cm), in black ink, with revisions in the same ink and in pencil. Whitman also penciled in the page number 16 in the lower-left corner. Pinholes in center and at top. This page bears the same papermaker's mark as 1:3:35. Twelfth in the original sequence "Live Oak, with Moss" (with ornamental Roman numeral), it became section 42 of "Calamus" in 1860. In 1867 Whitman changed the poem to an apostrophe, adding the first line "O Boy of the West!" (later removed) and permanently retitling it "To a Western Boy."