Inventory of the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, 1841-1947, bulk 1845-1849, 1854-1857, and 1864-1892
Writings Series, 1841-1944 and undated
Consists of manuscript drafts and revisions of Whitman's poetry and prose as well as proofs and published versions of his work from his early career in journalism up through the end of his life. The categorization of the manuscript material is necessarily inexact, and it is recommended that the researcher consult Ellen F. Frey's A Bibliography of Walt Whitman, Being a Catalog of the Trent Collection of Duke University, for detailed descriptions of the manuscript fragments. A copy of Frey's Bibliography is available from the reference staff upon request. The Writings Series also contains published versions of certain of Whitman's poems that were set to music by several different composers. For a comprehensive guide to these works, see Frey or see Bella C. Landauer, Leaves of Music by Walt Whitman, call number Trent I-9.
Manuscript Poems Subseries, ca. 1855 and undated
Manuscript drafts and revisions of poems appearing in successive editions of Leaves of Grass and poems not published during Whitman's lifetime or not intended for Leaves of Grass.
Leaves of Grass
Manuscript fragments are labeled "draft portions" if they constitute early drafts or revisions of a poem appearing in any of the editions of Leaves of Grass published during Whitman's lifetime. Fragments are labeled "draft outlines" if Frey suggests that they represent "ideas" treated in Leaves of Grass. Listed alphabetically by title.
MS 4to 14:
"By Blue Ontario's Shore"
(Autograph MS, draft of 1856 version, portion)
MS 4to 20:
"Carols Closing Sixty-Nine"
(Autograph MS, title suggestions for
"Sands at Seventy"
)
MS 4to 9:
"Faces"
(Autograph MS, draft portions)
MS 4to 10:
"Great are the myths..."
(Autograph MS)
MS 4to 11:
"You lusty and graceflu youth!"
(draft portions)
MS 4to 195:
"In Paths Untrodden"
(Autograph MS, draft portions)
MS 19:
Leaves of Grass (Table of Contents, 1881-1882 edition, with instructions to the printer)
I-1:
Leaves of Grass (Autograph MS and printed pages, printer's copy for portions of 1881-1882 edition)
I.
"Inscriptions"
II.
"Song of Myself"
(Pages 1-23)
II.
"Song of Myself"
(Pages 24-48)
II.
"Song of Myself"
(Pages 49-72)
III.
"Children of Adam"
IV.
"Song of the Exposition "
V.
"Song of the Redwood"
VI.
"A Song for Occupations"
VII.
"Birds of Passage"
VIII.
"Broadway Pageant"
IX.
"By Blue Ontario's Shore"
X.
"Autumn Rivulets (Pages 1-26)"
X.
"Autumn Rivulets (Pages 27-53)"
XI.
"To Think of Time"
XII.
"Whispers of Heavenly Death"
XIII.
"From Noon to Starry Night"
MS 12mo 15:
"THE Poem (?One grand, eclipsing poem Poem of Materials)"
(Autograph MS, draft portions of "Starting from Paumanok" and "Mediums")
II-5 17:
"Outlines for a Tomb"
(Autograph MS, draft outline)
II-5 21:
"Pictures"
(Autograph MS, draft outline)
MS 4to 22:
"Theme for piece poem An opera"
(Autograph MS, draft portions of
"Proud Music of the Storm"
and
"The Mystic Trumpeter"
)
MS 4to 23:
"Proud Music of the Storm"
(Autograph MS, draft outline and corrections)
MS 4to 1:
"Song of Myself"
(Autograph MS, draft portions), including
"Unnamed Lands"
MS 2:
"Song of Myself"
(Autograph MS, draft portions)
" To be at all - ..."
MS 3:
"Song of Myself"
(Autograph MS, draft outlines)
" It is no miracle now..."
MS 4to 4:
"Song of Myself"
(Autograph MS, draft portions)
"Light and air!"
MS 4to 6:
"Song of Myself"
(Autograph MS, draft portions)
"Bibles, traditions, and formulas..."
MS 4to 7:
"Song of Myself"
(Autograph MS, draft portions)
"My Spirit sped back..."
II-7 201:
"Song of Myself"
(Autograph MS, draft outlines)
"There is no word in any tongue"
II-5 12:
"Song of the Broad-Axe"
(Autograph MS, draft outline)
MS 18:
"Song of the Redwood Tree"
(Autograph MS, draft portions)
MS 4to 8:
"A Song for Occupations"
(Autograph MS, draft outline)
MS 4to 194:
"A Song of Joys"
(Autograph MS, draft outline)
MS 4to 193:
"A Song of the Rolling Earth"
(Autograph MS, draft outline)
MS 4to 16:
"Proem These are the sights that I have absorbed in Manhattan Island"
(Draft outline, draft portions, possibly for use in "Starting from Paumanok")
MS 13:
"This Compost"
(Autograph MS, draft portions)
MS 4to 5:
"I know as well as you that Bibles are divine revelations"
(Autograph MS, draft portions of
"Who Learns My Lesson Complete?"
)
Poems Not Appearing in Leaves of Grass
Listed alphabetically by headings.
MS 4to 24:
"All Hands Round"
II-7 200:
"I am not content now..."
MS 4to 25:
"I am that halfgrown angry boy..."
II-5 26:
"Poem of Existence"
MS 12mo 27:
"Remembrances I plant American ground with"
MS 4to 202:
"Scantlings"
MS 4to 28:
"Thought"
Notes for Poems
Listed alphabetically by headings.
MS 2o 29:
Autograph MSS
"[Fragments and Ideas for Poems] (Frey's heading)"
MS 2o 30:
Autograph MSS
"[Notes for Poems] (Frey's heading)"
MS 2o 31:
Autograph MSS
"[Outlines for Poems] (Frey's heading)"
MS 4to 32:
Autograph MSS
"[Preliminary Studies for Poems] (Frey's heading)"
MS 2o 33:
Autograph MSS
"[Suggestions for Poems] (Frey's heading)"
Manuscript Prose Subseries, 1852-1891 and undated
Includes manuscript drafts and revisions of stories, prefaces, essays, lectures, Whitman's commentary on his own literary work and on that by other authors, autobiographical material, and a section of miscellany that consists of notes made on various subjects, the most prominent among them being travel and intellectual history. The fragments in each group are listed alphabetically by headings.
Stories
Listed alphabetically by headings or titles.
MS 4to 191:
"Distinctness every syllable"
(Autograph MS, draft portion)
MS 56:
"Of a summer evening a boy fell asleep"
(Autograph MS, complete draft)
MS 2o 38:
"This singular young man was unnoted for any strong qualities"
(Autograph MS, complete draft)
Prefaces
Listed alphabetically by headings.
MS 2o 47:
"Camden - Phila April 8, '84"
(Autograph MS, draft of preface to unpublished edition of Whitman's works)
MS 4to 62:
"Eidolons Preface Two Rivulets"
(Autograph MS, draft of preface to Two Rivulets, 1876)
MS 12mo 58:
"For Dem Vistas"
(Autograph MS, draft of preface to Democratic Vistas )
MS 4to 63:
"The name of this tells much of the story..."
(Autograph MS, draft of preface [?])
MS 4to 69:
"(Of the great poet) (Finally) For preface"
(Autograph MS, draft of introduction to [?])
MS 50:
"Struggling steadily to the front..."
(Autograph MS, draft of prefatory notes to
"Song of the Exposition,"
appearing in Two Rivulets )
Essays, Lectures, and Notes
Listed alphabetically by headings.
MS 12mo 61:
"America needs her own poems,..."
(Autograph MS, possibly a draft of a lecture commenting on 1855 preface to Leaves of Grass )
MS 12mo 60:
"Canada lecture"
(Autograph MS, partly published in Diary in Canada, p. 72)
MS 57:
"for Ottawa lecture"
(Autograph MS, draft outline)
MS 64:
"Founding a new American Religion (? No Religion)"
(Autograph MS, draft outline)
II-5 42:
"It is no doubt impossible to say anything not already said..."
(Autograph MS, draft of a lecture on public education)
MS 65:
"It is said, perhaps rather quizzically by one of my friends..."
(Autograph MS, draft outline of a lecture on Canada)
MS 66:
"Italian Singers in America"
(Autograph MS, draft paragraph on the contralto Alboni)
MS 4to 44:
"Materialism"
(Autograph MS, draft of lecture/essay on evolution)
MS 4to 36:
"The mob, the trial of Warren Hastings, the death-bed of Robert Burns"
(Autograph MS, draft portion of an essay on Elias Hicks)
MS 2o 37:
"The Old World (Europe and Asia) is the region of the poetry of the past"
(Autograph MS, draft portion of the last paragraph of
"Shakespeare for America"
)
II-5 41:
"Our own account of this poem, 'the German Iliad'"
(Autograph MS, draft of an essay of the Niebelungenlied and a translation of part of the poem)
MS 4to 45:
"? outset of lecture"
(Autograph MS, draft outline on preparation for study)
II-5 39:
"Rel."
(Autograph MS, draft outline for a lecture on religion)
MS 48:
"Sculpture"
(Autograph MS, lecture/essay on the Greeks)
II-5 40:
"Slavery - the Slaveholders - The Constitution..."
(Autograph MS, draft portions of antislavery speeches)
MS 54:
"Spring of '59 - read Dante's 'Inferno'"
(Autograph MS, draft of essay on Dante)
MS 2o 43:
"Wants"
(Autograph MS, draft portions of an essay on labor advertisements)
MS 4to 49:
"A Word About Tennyson"
(Autograph MS, printer's copy for Whitman's Tennyson essay in the Critic, Jan. 1, 1887)
Notes on Literature
Listed alphabetically by headings or first lines.
II-5 101:
"[Miscellaneous Notes, Chiefly Literary] (in Frey)"
(Autograph MSS)
II-5 102:
"[Notes on Literature] (in Frey)"
(Autograph MSS)
MS 4to 73:
"1855 - I have looked over Gerald Massey's Poems..."
(Autograph MS, notes on Massey)
MS 4to 99:
"But Though so loving, so singing, so dwelling on the past"
(Autograph MS, fragmentary remarks on a poet, probably Tennyson [in Frey])
MS 12mo 92:
"Diderot (Dennis Diderot)"
(Autograph MS, outline of Diderot's career)
MS 4to 74:
"Dr. Priestly (or Priestley)"
(Autograph MS, notes on Priestley)
MS 4to 72:
"Dryden 1631 to 1701"
(Autograph MS, impressions of Dryden)
MS 91:
"Edmund Spenser"
(Autograph MS, outline of Spencer's career)
MS 4to 86:
"Even now Jasmund, the people's poet,..."
(Autograph MS, notes on Jasmin, Pythagoras, Ossian, Zoroaster, and Greek history and literature)
MS 4to 76:
"Frances Wright"
(Autograph MS, notes on Wright's life)
MS 93:
"Frederick Schlegel 1772 - 1829"
(Autograph MS, note on the life and philosophy of Schlegel)
MS 4to 80:
"Goethe - from about 1750 to 1832"
(Autograph MS, notes on Goethe)
MS 4to 81:
"Goethe's Complete Works, last complete edition of his own revision"
(Autograph MS, notes on Goethe)
MS 4to 85:
"He is a precursor, in some sort of great differences"
(Autograph MS, notes on Swedenborg)
MS 90:
"His earliest printed plays 1597 Romeo and Juliet"
(Autograph MS, notes on the life and work of Shakespeare)
MS 94:
"The Iliad, The Bible (? & The Eschylean tragedies)"
(Autograph MS, notes on the Iliad and the Bible)
MS 79:
"J. J. Rousseau"
(Autograph MS, biographical sketch of Rousseau)
MS 4to 82:
"(Jean Paul) Friedrich Richter"
(Autograph MS, notes on the life and style of Richter)
MS 78:
"Lafontaine, born about 1621 lived 73 years - (1694)"
(Autograph MS, notes on Lafontaine's career)
MS 4to 77:
"Louis 14th born 1638 - died 1715 Corneille"
(Autograph MS, notes on the drama of Louis XIV's age)
MS 4to 84:
"Memory - ..."
(Autograph MS, notes on the life of Plutarch preceded by a quotation from Locke)
III-3 #5 c. 1:
"The Nibelungen"
(Autograph MS, notes on the Nibelungenlied, mounted on inside front board of Voices from the Press )
MS 12mo 89:
"Oliver Goldsmith"
(Autograph MS, biographical sketch of Goldsmith)
MS 117:
"Shakespeare and Walter Scott"
(Autograph MS, notes on writing)
MS 4to 83:
"Schiller - born 1759 - died 1806"
(Autograph MS, notes on Schiller and other German poets)
MS 4to 75:
"Shelley, born 1792 - died 1822 Keats died 1821"
(Autograph MS, notes on Shelley)
MS 4to 100:
"The Social Contract, Or, Principles of Right"
(Autograph MS, copy of extracts from a translation of Rousseau)
MS 71:
"The Song of Hiawatha by H. W. Longfellow"
(Autograph MS, impressions of
"Hiawatha"
)
MS 12mo 95:
"Torquato Tasso"
(Autograph MS, biographical sketch of Tasso)
Autobiographical Manuscripts
Listed alphabetically by headings.
MS 4to 132:
"24 Feb. 1891 In Notes if convenient"
(Autograph MS, paragraph on his health and publishing, request from Mrs. J. S. Harris for his autograph)
MS 4to 130:
"(Elan E. Kelsey)..."
(Autograph MS, notes on Eugene Kelsey, a soldier whom Whitman visited, and on Kelsey's family)
MS 123:
"How I get around at 60 and take notes (No. 1)"
(Autograph MS, copy for the first of six articles sent by Whitman to the Critic 1881-1882, published 1881 Jan. 29)
MS 113:
"In the Revolution,..."
(Autograph MS, notes on Whitman's grandfather Kell Van Velsor and his Grandmother Whitman during the Revolutionary War)
MS 120:
"Isaac Joseph Stephen Jesse (my grandfather)..."
(Autograph MSS, notes on various relatives, especially his grandmother Hannah Brush and great aunt Mrs. Sarah Mead)
MS 122:
"June 2, '74"
(Autograph MS, notes on Dr. Matthew Grier's opinion of Whitman's health)
II-7 197:
"July 31st 1852 - Mr. Scofield owes W.W. ..."
(Autograph MS, memoranda written by Whitman when employed as a contractor)
MS 2o 128:
"Mother's family lived..."
(Autograph MS, notes on Whitman's mother's family, 1850)
MS 2o 133:
"My house and lot 328 Mickle street Camden New Jersey"
(Autograph MS, draft portion of Whitman's will)
MS 12mo 104:
"Nov. 23rd. 62 Portland av. Jesse Whitman..."
(Autograph MS, notes on uncles and his father as contractor)
MS 2o 131:
"Nov. 26 1880 R Worthington..."
(Autograph MS, notes on pirated edition of Leaves of Grass )
MS 12mo 104a:
"Progenitors"
(Autograph MS)
MS 121:
"Specimen Days"
(Autograph MS, notes on his parents)
MS 2o 129:
"Walter Whitman married..."
(Autograph MS, notes toward a family genealogy and portion of a diary of Whitman's trip from New Orleans)
Cf. Richard Maurice Bucke's Biography of Whitman Subseries.
Whitman on His Own Writings
Listed alphabetically by headings.
MS 12mo 116:
"[Three Autograph MSS]"
(Notes on nature, a comment on Specimen Days )
MS 4to 110:
"'81 'Leaves of Grass' finished"
(Autograph MS, diary writing on preparation of the 1881-1882 edition for publication)
MS 4to 109:
"All others have adhered to the principle..."
(Autograph MS, notes on democracy, poetry)
MS 108:
"And so I have put those completed poems..."
(Autograph MS, draft outline)
MS 12mo 127:
"Current Criticism"
(Autograph MS, notes on Burroughs's Notes on Walt Whitman )
MS 124:
"Feb. 25th '57 Dined with Hector Tyndale"
(Autograph MS, notes on criticisms of Leaves of Grass made by Whitman's friends)
MS 12mo 105:
"For criticism L of Grass"
(Autograph MS, notes on Leaves of Grass )
MS 12mo 106:
"For Dr. B's Criticism"
(Autograph MS, notes on Specimen Days )
MS 125:
"Friday April 24, '57. True vista before"
(Autograph MS, notes on education)
II-7 198:
"Leading Characteristic to unite all sects,..."
(Autograph MS, notes on religious and social unity)
MS 4to 204:
"Make the Works"
(Autograph MS, notes on writing)
MS 12mo 107:
"May 13 to 26 '81 Down in the Country"
(Autograph MS, diary entry on preparation of the1881-1882 edition of Leaves of Grass for publication)
MS 126:
"My Poems, when complete, should be... "
(Autograph MS, notes on writing poetry)
MS 4to 134:
"No I do not choose to write a poem on a lady's sparrow, like Catullus"
(Autograph MS, notes on Leaves of Grass )
MS 114:
"No one of the Themes..."
(Autograph MS, draft portions of an essay on Leaves of Grass )
II-5 135:
"Of William Blake & Walt Whitman"
(Autograph MS, comparison of Blake and himself)
MS 4to 206:
"On the other side is the 'barbaric yawp'..."
(Autograph MS, draft portion of essay on the differences between Whitman and other poets)
MS 115 [display]:
"Other poets have formed..."
(Autograph MS, notes on writing poetry)
MS 4to 199:
"Put in a passage in some poem..."
(Autograph MS, notes on translation of his poetry)
MS 4to 136:
"Rules for Composition"
(Autograph MS, notes on writing)
MS 4to 137:
"Sept '81 Copy..."
(Autograph MS, notes on the publication of the 1881-1882 edition of Leaves of Grass )
MS 4to 205:
"Two suggestion points for letter"
(Autograph MS, two passages of self-criticism)
MS 12mo 116:
"3 Autograph MSS"
(Notes on nature, Specimen Days )
Miscellany
Listed alphabetically by headings.
MS 4to 192:
"The Black (The problem of the black)"
(Autograph MS)
MS 52:
"Book-learn'g is good..."
(Autograph MS, notes on education)
MS 4to 196:
"Caution"
(Autograph MS, notes on American literature)
MS 96:
"Egypt..."
(Autograph MS, notes on the "development of man" represented by the Egyptians, Hindus, Greeks, Romans, and Hebrews)
MS 97:
"Egyptian religion... Greek... Hebrew"
(Autograph MS, notes on ancient Egyptian and Greek religion and Judaism)
MS 98:
"The English Masses"
(Autograph MS, notes on English people)
MS 4to 34:
"His idea of God..."
(Autograph MS, notes on Emerson)
MS 2o 53:
"I know well enough that man grows up,..."
(Autograph MS, notes on "the nature of man")
MS 67:
"In metaphysical points,..."
(Autograph MS, notes on Romantic poetry, education)
MS 55:
"It is generally believed in Washington..."
(Autograph MS, draft portions of a letter on exchange of Civil War prisoners)
MS 4to 203:
"It were unworthy a live man to pray or complain"
(Autograph MS, notes on "whining")
MS 118:
"London - 1880 Then about drinking habits"
(Autograph MS, notes on Canada made during his trip there)
Trent South Wall:
"A main part of The greatness of a humanity"
(Autograph MS, notes on the "evolution of humanity")
MS 4to 87:
"Of Insanity"
(Autograph MS, notes on insanity)
II-5 103:
"[Notes on Africa and Asia] (Frey's title)"
(Autograph MSS, notes on Asia and Africa taken from conversations with travelers and from geography and history books)
MS 68:
"[On Poetry] (Frey's heading)"
(Autograph MS, notes on poetry)
MS 51:
"Produce great persons..."
(Autograph MS)
MS 4to 111:
"The RR we go on (Sep 13 '79) from St Louis..."
(Autograph MS, notes on travels in the U.S. in 1848 and 1879)
MS 2o 46:
"Specimen Days Oct 31 '84 Presidential Election"
(Autograph MS, notes for an expanded edition of Leaves of Grass )
MS 4to 112:
"Sunday '79 - Took a slow walk..."
(Autograph MS, notes on New York City)
MS 4to 35:
"Theological inferences... "
(Autograph MS, notes on the Bible and its importance in poetry)
MS 119:
"Visit to NY '78 July 3..."
(Autograph MS, notes on view of New York from the top of the Tribune building)
MS 12mo 59:
"Wednesday 4th March..."
(Autograph MS, notes on the adjournment of Congress, 1863, Mar.)
MS 4to 88:
"The Whale"
(Autograph MS, notes on whales)
MS 4to 70:
"What are inextricable from the British poets are..."
(Autograph MS, notes on British poets)
Proofs Subseries, 1874-1891 and undated
Proofs of poems and articles published during Whitman's lifetime, some with autograph annotation by Whitman. The dates provided are taken both from the periodicals that carried corrected versions of the articles and poems in proof and also from autograph annotations to the proofs themselves. A mark of "P" next to a date indicates that the proof in question has been dated according to the periodical in which it appeared; a mark of "A," conversely, indicates that the proof has been dated by annotation. Where possible, the titles of the periodicals that published finalized versions of Whitman's articles and poems have been included. Listed alphabetically by title or periodical.
III-8, Pr. 10:
"A Carol Closing Sixty Nine,"
undated
III-8, Pr. 1:
"Colonel Ingersoll's Lecture, Liberty and Literature,"
1890 Oct. 21 (A)
Includes a clipping from the New York World from 1890 26 Oct. which reports a conversation between Whitman and Ingersoll.
III-8, Pr. 2:
"The Dead Carlyle,"
Boston Literary World, 1881 Feb. 12 (P)
III-8, Pr. 3:
"The Dead Tenor,"
The Critic, 1884 Nov. 4 (P)
III-8, Pr. 4:
"Death of a Fireman,"
The New Republic, 1874 Nov. 14 (P)
III-8, Pr. 5:
"Halcyon Days,"
undated
Proof copy with corrections, presumably by Whitman
III-8, Pr. 6:
"Have We a National Literature?,"
North American Review, 1891 Mar. (P)
III-8, Pr. 7:
"A Memorandum at a Venture,"
North American Review, 1882 June (A)
I-1:
November Boughs, undated Page proofs, pp. 5-45, preceded by a 4-page review clipped from the Chicago Daily News, 9 Feb. 1889.
I-1:
November Boughs, undated Page proofs, pp. 46-92
I-1:
November Boughs, undated Page proofs, pp. 93-140
III-8, Pr. 9:
"Of That Blithe Throat of Thine,"
Harper's, 1885 Jan. (P)
Cf. Books and Periodicals Containing Contributions by Whitman Subseries .
III-8, Pr. 10:
"Old Age's Lambent Peaks,"
undated
III-8, Pr. 11:
"Patroling Barnegat,"
1880 June 3 (A)
III-8, Pr. 12:
"Preface,"
undated
Preface to Three Tales, by W. D. O'Connor
III-8, Pr. 13:
"Shakespeare for America,"
The Poet Lore, 1890 Sept. 15 (P)
III-8, Pr. 14A:
"Summer Days in Canada"
, London Advertiser, 1890 June 22 (P)
III-8, Pr. 14B:
"Sunday with the Insane"
, London Advertiser, 1890 June 22 (P)
III-8, Pr. 15:
"Thanks in Old Age,"
undated
III-8, Pr. 10:
"To Get the Final Lilt of Songs,"
undated
III-8, Pr. 16:
"To the Sun-Set Breeze,"
undated
Cf. Correspondence From or By Whitman Subseries. A second copy of this proof is included in a letter from Whitman to J. D. Stoddart.
III-8, Pr. 17:
"A Twilight Song,"
The Century, 1890 May (P)
III-8, Pr. 18:
"Walt Whitman: The True Reminiscence of his Writings,"
The West Jersey Press, 1876 May 24 (P)
III-8, Pr. 19:
"Walt Whitman's Actual American Position,"
The West Jersey Press, 1876 Jan. 26 (P) (2 copies)
III-8, Pr. 20:
"With Husky-Haughty Lips, O Sea!,"
Harper's, 1883 Nov. (A)
III-8, Pr. 21:
"Your kind invitation to visit you and deliver a poem for the 33d Anniversary of founding Santa Fe...,"
undated
Poems Set To Music Subseries, 1901-1933
Published versions of certain of Whitman's poems that were set to music by different composers. Dates of copyright, rather than those of composition, are given below. Several of the titles in the Trent Collection are described in greater detail in Bella C. Landauer, Leaves of Music by Walt Whitman, call number Trent I-9. Entries for those titles listed in Leaves of Music include Landauer's catalogue number. Listed alphabetically by composer.
Bridge, Frank
I-9:
"The Last Invocation,"
Winthrop Rogers, Ltd., London, 1919 (Landauer 19)
Campbell-Tipton, Louis
I-9:
Op. 32, No. 1,
"Rhapsodie,"
G. Schirmer, New York, 1919 (Landauer 23)
"Two Songs to Words by Walt Whitman: I. 'Elegy,' II. 'At the Tomb,"
The Boston Music Company, Boston, 1918
Dalmas, Philip
I-9:
"As I watch'd the Ploughman Ploughing, and Other Chants of Freedom,,"
Novello and Company, London, 1901 (Landauer 39)
"As I watch'd..."
including woodcuts by Wharton Esherick, London, 1901 (Landauer 40)
Gaul, Harvey B.
I-9:
"I Hear America Singing,"
C. C. Birchard and Co., Boston 1925 (Landauer 58)
Kernochan, Marshall
I-9:
"Out of the Rolling Ocean...,"
C. W. Thompson and Co., Boston, 1908
"Out of the Rolling Ocean...,"
Galaxy Music Corporation, New York, 1933
"Two Songs: I. 'Song of Ylen,' [words by Richard Hovey], II. 'We Two Together,' [words by Whitman],"
G. Schirmer, New York, 1911
"We Two Together,"
Galaxy Music Corporation, New York, 1933
Phippen, Joshua
I-9:
"O Captain My Captain,"
Essex Institute, Salem [Mass.], 1909
Powers, Ada Weigel
I-9:
"The Last Invocation,"
Edward Schuberth and Co., New York, 1927 (Landauer 105a)
Scott, Cyril
I-9:
"My Captain,"
Elkin and Co., Ltd., London, 1904
Spalding, Eva Ruth
I-9:
"Trois Melodies pour Chant et Piano,"
Editions Maurice Senart, Paris, 1923 (Landauer 120)
Tomlins, W. L, editor
I-9:
The Laurel Song-Book for Advanced Classes in Schools, Academies, Choral Societies, etc., C. C. Birchard and Company, Boston, 1901
Contains three songs with words by Whitman:
"O Captain! My Captain!,"
music by Edgar Stillman Kelley, pp. 26-32;
"Weave in, My Hardy Life,"
music by Frank van der Stucken, p. 33;
"We Two Together,"
music by W. W. Gilchrist, pp. 210-212.
Periodicals and Books Containing Contributions by Whitman Subseries, 1841-1924
Periodicals and books containing poems, essays, and letters by Whitman. Includes the first and only issue of the abolitionist newspaper Brooklyn Freeman, which Whitman edited. The copy in the Trent Collection is the only one known to be extant. Divided into two sections, the first of which lists periodicals in the Trent Collection to which Whitman contributed and the second of which lists books. Listed alphabetically by periodical or book title.
Periodicals
Atlantic Monthly
W615 B16:
no. 30:
"Bardic Symbols,"
pp. 445-7, 1860, Apr.
W615A:
no. 558:
"An American Printer,"
pp. 460-70, 1904, Apr.
Brooklyn Freeman
III-6:
Vol. I, no. 1, edited by Walt Whitman. Only extant copy. 1848 Sept. 9
Brother Jonathan
III-11:
Vol. I, no. 9:
"Boz and Democracy,"
pp. 243-4, 1842 Feb. 26
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
W615 S:
Vol. XXXIX, no. 4:
"Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death,"
p. 553, 1890, Feb.
The Galaxy
IX G146 A:
Vol. IV, no. 5:
"A Card of Harvest for 1867,"
pp. 605-9, 1867, Sept.
Vol. XI:
"O Star of France!,"
p. 817, 1871, Jan.-July
Harper's New Monthly Magazine
W615 T:
Vol. LXX, no. 416:
"Of That Blithe Throat of Thine,"
p. 64, 1885, Jan.
Cf. Proofs Subseries .
Life Illustrated
I-7:
Vol. I, no. 13:
"Christmas at Grace,"
p. 97, 1856 Jan. 26
Vol. I, no. 24:
"America's Mightiest Inheritance,"
pp. 185-6, 1856 Apr. 2
Vol. II, no. 2:
"Voltaire,"
p. 9, 1856 May 10
Vol. II, no. 3:
"Fanny Fern's Opinion of Walt Whitman,"
pp. 20-1, 1856 May 17
Vol. II, no. 11:
"New York Dissected,"
part 1, p. 85, 1856 July 12
Vol. II, no. 12:
"New York Dissected,"
part 2, p. 93, 1856 July 19
Vol. II, no. 14:
"New York Dissected,"
part 3, pp. 108-9, 1856 Aug. 2
Vol. II, no. 15:
"New York Dissected,"
part 4, p. 116, 1856 Aug. 9
Vol. II, no. 16:
"New York Dissected,"
part 5, p. 125, 1856 Aug. 16
Vol. II, no. 17:
"New York Dissected,"
part 6, p. 133, 1856 Aug. 23
Vol. II, no. 22: Advertisement for second edition of Leaves of Grass, 1856, Sept. 27
Lippincott's Monthly Magazine
W615 M:
Vol. XXXIX, no. 229:
"My Book and I,"
pp. 121-7, 1887, Jan.
The Magazine of Poetry
III-4:
Vol. I: Selected Poems, pp. 15-23, 1889
The New World
I-7:
Extra Series, no. 34:
"Franklin Evans; or, the Inebriate. A Tale of the Times,"
pp. 1-31, 1842, Nov.
Transactions of the Buffalo Historical Society
III-4:
Vol. III:
"Red Jacket, (From Aloft),"
p. 105, 1885
The United States Magazine and Democratic Review
III-4:
NS Vol. IX, no. 38:
"Death in the School-Room. A Fact,"
pp. 177-81, 1841, Aug.
NS Vol. IX, no. 41:
"Wild Frank's Return,"
pp. 476-82, 1841, Nov.
NS Vol. IX, no. 42:
"Bervance: or, Father and Son,"
pp. 560-8, 1841, Dec.
NS Vol. X, no. 43:
"The Tomb-Blossoms,"
pp. 62-8, 1842, Jan.
NS Vol. X, no. 47:
"The Child-Ghost; A Story of the Last Loyalist,"
pp. 451-9, 1842, May
Vol. XVII, no. 89:
"A Dialogue,"
pp. 360-4, 1845, Nov.
Books
II-3:
Essays from The Critic, by John Burroughs, et al, 1882
By Whitman:
"Death of Carlyle,"
pp. 31-7;
"Death of Longfellow,"
pp. 41-5
III-4:
Et Cetera: A Collector's Scrap-Book, edited by Vincent Startett, no. 144 of 625 copies, 1924
By Whitman:
"Fragments,"
p. 193;
"Broadway 1861,"
p. 195
IV:
In Re Walt Whitman, edited by Horace L. Traubel, et al, 1893
(2 copies)
III-4:
The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman, edited by Thomas B. Harned, 1918
The Poets' Tribute to Garfield: A Collection of Many Memorial Poems,
1882
By Whitman:
"The Sobbing of the Bells,"
p. 71
III-11:
Voices from the Press: A Collection of Sketches, Essays, and Poems by Practical Printers, edited by James J. Brenton, 1850
By Whitman:
"The Tomb-Blossoms,"
pp. 27-33
Editions of Whitman's Writings Subseries, 1855-1944
Published versions of Whitman's poetry and prose. Entries below are listed alphabetically by title and chronologically within title headings. With the exception of Sotsukwa's Japanese translation of Leaves of Grass, which is cataloged under Leaves of Grass, all translations are listed alphabetically by title as it is spelled in the language of translation. Editions of Leaves of Grass listed chronologically.
II-1:
After All, Not to Create Only. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871.
(2 copies)
II-4:
An American Primer. Edited by Horace Traubel. Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1904.
II-2:
Autobiographia, or The Story of a Life. Prose selections. New York: Charles L. Webster and Co.; London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1892.
II-2, shelved as 1892a:
Autobiographia, or The Story of a Life. Edited by Arthur Stedman. Fiction, Fact and Fancy Series. New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., 1892.
III-4:
Calamus. Edited by Richard Maurice Bucke. Letters from Whitman to Peter Doyle, 1868-1880. Boston: Laurens Maynard, 1897.
(2 copies)
Cf. From or By Whitman Subseries.
II-2:
Calamus. Edited and translated by Leon Bazalgette (French trans.). Geneva: Editions du Sablier, 1919.
III-11:
A Child's Reminiscence. Edited by Thomas O. Mabbott and Rollo G. Silver. Seattle: University of Washington Book Store, 1930.
III-4:
Complete Poems and Prose of Walt Whitman, 1855-1888. Autograph copy. [No publisher identified in Frey]
II-2:
Complete Prose Works. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1892.
II-4:
The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman, "Camden Edition." Edited by Richard Maurice Bucke, Thomas B. Harned, and Horace L. Traubel; additional material contributed by Oscar Lovell Triggs. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1902. (10 vols)
II-2:
Criticism, An Essay. Newark, N.J.: The Carteret Book Club, 1913.
II-1:
Democratic Vistas, and Other Papers. London: Walter Scott; Toronto: W. J. Gage and Co., 1888.
I-4:
Digte. Edited and translated by Johannes V. Jensen and Otto Gelsted (Danish trans.). Kobenhavn; Kristiania: Nordisk Forlag, 1919.
II-3:
Drum Taps. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1936.
I-4:
Feuilles d'herbe. Edited and translated by Leon Bazalgette (French trans.). Paris: Mercure de France, 1909. (2 vols)
Feuilles d'herbe. Paris: Mercure de France, 1922. (2 vols)
Finf un zwanzig Lieder. Edited and translated by Dr. A. Eisen, in Hebrew characters. New York: Farlag Idish Leben, 1934.
II-2:
The Gathering of the Forces: Editorial, Essays, Literary and Dramatic Reviews, And Other Material written by Walt Whitman as Editor of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1846 and 1847. Edited by Cleveland Rogers and John Black. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1920. (2 vols)
II-1:
Gems from Walt Whitman. Edited by Elizabeth Porter Gould. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1889.
II-4:
Good-Bye My Fancy. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891.
(2 copies)
Grashalme. Edited and translated into German by Karl Knortz and T. W. Rolleston. Zurich: Verlags-Magazin (J. Schabelitz), 1889.
III-11:
Grashalme. With illustrations by Willi Jaeckel. Berlin: Erich Reiss Verlag, 1920.
III-4:
The Half-Breed and Other Stories. Edited by Thomas Olive Mabbott, with woodcuts by Allen Lewis. New York: Columbia University Press, 1927.
II-4:
I Sit and Look Out. Edited by Emory Holloway and Vernolian Schwartz. New York: Columbia University Press, 1932.
II-2:
Lafayette in Brooklyn. Introduction by John Burroughs. New York: George D. Smith, 1905.
I-5:
Leaves of Grass, first edition, first issue (2 copies); first edition, second issue (1 copy). Brooklyn: [Walt Whitman], 1855.
I-2:
Leaves of Grass, second edition. Brooklyn: [Walt Whitman], 1856.
Leaves of Grass, third edition. Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860-1861.
Leaves of Grass, Worthington's pirated edition. Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860-1861.
(2 copies)
Leaves of Grass, fourth edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Whitman. New York, 1867.
Leaves of Grass, Electrotyped by Smith and McDougal, New York; published in Washington, D.C., 1871
Leaves of Grass, with Passage to India. Washington, D.C.: [No publisher identified in Frey], 1871.
Leaves of Grass, fifth edition. Washington, D.C.: [No publisher identified in Frey], 1872.
II-2:
Leaves of Grass, As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free, and Other Poems. Washington, D.C.: [No publisher identified in Frey], 1872.
I-2:
Leaves of Grass, sixth edition. Camden, N.J., 1876.
Leaves of Grass, sixth edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Whitman. Camden, N.J., 1876.
Leaves of Grass, seventh edition, third Boston edition. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1881-1882.
(2 copies)
I-3:
Leaves of Grass, seventh edition (reprint). Rees, Welsh and Co., 1882.
Leaves of Grass. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1884.
Leaves of Grass, seventh edition (reprint). Glasgow: Wilson and McCormick, 1884.
Leaves of Grass, with Sands at Seventy and A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads, eighth edition. [No publisher identified in Frey], 1889.
Leaves of Grass, including Sands at Seventy...1st Annex, Good-Bye my Fancy...2d Annex, A Backward Glance o'er Traveled Roads, and Portrait from Life, ninth edition, second issue. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891-1892.
Leaves of Grass. Boston: Small, Maynard and Cos., 1898.
Leaves of Grass. Philadelphia: David McKay, ca. 1900.
Leaves of Grass. New York: M. Kennerling, 1914.
I-5:
Leaves of Grass, facsimile of 1855 first edition. Portland, Me.: Thomas Bird Mosher and William Francis Gable, 1919.
I-4:
Leaves of Grass. Edited and translated by Tomita Sotsukwa (Japanese translation). Tokyo and Osaka: [No publisher identified in Frey], 1919-1920. (2 vols)
I-3:
Leaves of Grass. "Inclusive Edition." Edited by Emory Holloway. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1927.
III-11:
Leaves of Grass. Introduction by Carolyn Wells. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1929.
I-6:
Leaves of Grass. New York: Random House, 1930.
I-3:
Leaves of Grass. New York: Aventine, 1931.
I-6 or III-11:
Leaves of Grass, facsimile of 1855 first edition. Introduction by Clifton Joseph Furness. New York: Columbia University Press for the Facsimile Text Society, 1939.
I-3:
Leaves of Grass. New York: Modern Library, 1940.
I-6 or III-11:
Leaves of Grass. Edited by Christopher Morley, with illustrations by Lewis C. Daniel. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., 1940.
III-11:
Leaves of Grass. Introduction by Mark Van Doren, photographs by Edward Weston. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1942.
I-6:
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman: Preface to the Original Edition, 1855. Trubner and Co., 1881.
(2 copies)
I-2:
Leaves of Grass Imprints: American and European Criticisms on Leaves of Grass. Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860.
II-3:
Letters Written by Walt Whitman To His Mother, 1866-1872. Introduction by Rollo G. Silver. New York: Alfred F. Goldsmith, 1936.
II-1:
Memoranda, with Democratic Vistas. Washington, D.C.: [No publisher identified in Frey], 1871.
II-2:
Memoranda During the War. Camden, N.J.: [Walt Whitman], 1875-1876.
III-11:
Memories of President Lincoln. Portland, Me.: Thomas B. Mosher, 1912.
II-2:
Memories of President Lincoln and Other Lyrics of the War. Portland, Me.: Thomas B. Mosher, 1906.
I-4:
Natuurleven, first Dutch edition. Edited and translated into Dutch by Maurits Wagenvoort. Haarlem: Erven F. Bohn, 1898.
II-11:
New York Dissected. Edited by and introduction by Emory Holloway and Ralph Adimari. New York: Rufus Rockwell Wilson, Inc., 1936.
III-11:
Notes and Fragments. Edited by Richard Maurice Bucke. London, Ontario: A. Talbot and Co., 1899.
Trent V Pam Case:
"A Note about Whitman's Essay on Poe,"
by Rollo G. Silver. Reprinted from American Literature, vol. VII, no. 1, 1935 Mar.
II-4:
November Boughs. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1888.
(2 copies)
II-3:
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking. New York: The June House, 1926.
Pictures. Edited by and introduction by Emory Holloway. New York: The June House, 1927; London: Faber and Gwyer, 1927.
II-2:
Poems by Walt Whitman. Edited by William Michael Rossetti. London: John Camden Hotten, 1868.
Pam 12mo #11, c.1:
Poems by Walt Whitman. The Masterpiece Library Series, no. XXVII. London: "Review of Reviews" Office, 1895.
II-2:
Sea Drift. New York: Hearst's International Library Company, 1919[?]
Selected Poems. Edited by Arthur Stedman. Fact, Fiction, and Fancy Series. New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., 1892.
Selections from the Prose and Poetry of Walt Whitman. Edited and introduced by Oscar Lovell Triggs. Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1898.
Trent V Pam Case:
"Seven Letters of Walt Whitman,"
by Rollo G. Silver. Reprinted from American Literature, vol. VII, no. 1, 1935 Mar.
III-11:
Song of the Broad-Axe. Philadelphia: The Centaur Press, 1924.
II-1:
Specimen Days and collect, first edition, first issue. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1882-1883.
Specimen Days and collect, first edition, second issue. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1882-1883.
Specimen Days and collect, first British edition, second issue. Glasgow: Wilson and McCormick, 1883.
III-11:
There Was a Child Went Forth. Pictures by Zhenya Gay. New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1943.
Trent Pam Case:
"Thirty-One Letters of Walt Whitman,"
by Rollo G. Silver. Reprinted from American Literature, vol. VIII, no. 4, 1937 Jan.
II-3:
Two Prefaces. Introduction by Christopher Morley. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1926.
I-3:
Two Rivulets. Camden, N.J.: [Walt Whitman], 1876.
II-3:
The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman. Edited by Emory Holloway. New York: Peter Smith, 1932. (2 vols)
II-4:
Walt Whitman and the Civil War. Edited by Charles I. Glicksberg. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1933.
III-11:
Walt Whitman in Camden. Edited by and prefaced by Christopher Morley; photographs by Arnold Genthe. Camden, N.J.: The Haddon Craftsmen, 1938.
II-3:
Walt Whitman, Poet of American Democracy: Selections from His Poetry and Prose. Edited by and introduction by Samuel Sillen. New York: International Publishers, 1944.
Walt Whitman: Representative Selections, with Introduction, Bibliography, and Notes. Edited by Floyd Stovall. American Writers Series. New York: American Book Company, 1934.
II-4:
Walt Whitman's Diary in Canada. Edited by William Sloane Kennedy. Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1904.
IV:
Walt Whitman's Workshop. Edited by and introduction by Clifton Joseph Furness. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1928.
V Trent Pam Case:
"Whitman Interviews Himself,"
by Rollo G. Silver. Reprinted from American Literature, vol. X, no. 1, 1938 Mar.
I-9:
A Whitman Manuscript from the Albert M. Bender Collection of Mills College. Oakland, Calif.: The Bibliophile Society of Mills College, 1939.
II-2:
The Wound-Dresser. Edited by Richard Maurice Bucke. Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1898.
(2 copies)
Bibliographies and Catalogues Subseries, 1922-1943
Published bibliographies, lists, and descriptions of Whitman's work from the early years of Whitman scholarship and Whitman memorabilia collecting. Listed alphabetically by author or editor.
1. Trent Pam 12mo A425T, 2. Trent Pam 12mo #7:
Allen, Gay Wilson. Walt Whitman Bibliography, 1918-1934. Boston, 1935. (Bulletin of Bibliography Pamphlets, No. 30).
Trent IV A425T:
Allen, Gay Wilson. Twenty-Five Years of Walt Whitman Bibliography, 1918-1942. Boston, 1943. (Bulletin of Bibliography Pamphlets, No. 30).
Trent IV B922 MA:
Hanaburgh, E. F., editor. Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, First Editions and Portraits of Walt Whitman. New York, 1936. (American Art Association. Anderson Galleries. Catalogue Number 4251).
Trent IV K39 L:
Kern, Jerome. The Library of Jerome Kern. New York, 1929. (Anderson Galleries. Catalogue Numbers 2307 and 2311). (2 vols)
Trent I-9:
Landauer, Bella C. Leaves of Music by Walt Whitman. Privately printed at the Harbor Press, 1937, no. 18 of 60.
Trent IV N561 R:
Rare Books and Manuscripts Collected by the Late A. Edward Newton. New York, 1941. Brochure.
Rare Books, Original Drawings, Autograph Letters, and Manuscripts, Collected by the Late A. Edward Newton.. New York, 1941. (Parke-Bernet Galleries. Catalogue Numbers 276, 284, and 306). (3 vols)
Trent IV 12mo S538B:
Shay, Frank. The Bibliography of Walt Whitman. New York, 1920. No. 313 of 500.
Pam S766 L:
Sprague, Mrs. Frank Julian. A List of Manuscripts, Books, Portraits, Prints, Broadsides and Memorabilia in Commemoration of the One Hundred and Twentieth Anniversary of the Birth of Walt Whitman. Exhibited at the Library of Congress, 1939.
(2 copies)
Pam T197 W:
Tashjian, Nouvart, editor. Index to Early American Periodical Literature, 1728-1870. No. 3: Walt Whitman, 1819-1892. New York, 1941.
Trent IV 12mo W453 C:
Wells, Carolyn, and Goldsmith, Alfred F. A Concise Bibliography of the Works of Walt Whitman, with a Supplement of Fifty Books about Whitman. Boston and New York, 1922. No. 495 of 550 copies.