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Notes
The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. (1921). See particularly Vol. II, pp. 63-76, 79-90.
Notebooks Nos. 80, 84, and 86 were among those lost, misplaced, or stolen during the 1940's and are still missing. Sometime during the 1950's David Mearns, then Chief of the Manuscript Division, learned that I had these microfilms and requested the loan of them so that duplicates could be made for the Library, where they are now accessible.
Uncollected Poetry and Prose, II, 63, note 1. See also Gay W. Allen, The Solitary Singer, Appendix B, p. 599.
Mrs. Shephard's evidence was Whitman's telling J. T. Trowbridge in 1860 that he began "definitely writing out" the poems in 1854. She supposes this notebook to be part of such writing. Grier thinks the verse in the notebook is too imperfect to have been written as late as 1854.
See With Walt Whitman in Camden, III, 236-39 for an account of this matter. Whitman wrote O'Connor in 1869 that the painting was worth four or five hundred dollars but that he thought he put it in for one hundred. Talbot was an associate member of the National Academy of Design, elected in 1842. (See the New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 [1957], p. 618.) It is possible, of course, that Whitman wrote Talbot's name in the book in 1847 if he lived then at the same address.
Frederic A. Chapman was the first president of the Brooklyn Art Association. (See the Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860, p. 120.)
Prose Works 1892 (1963), I, 19. In a list of names, some of them obviously omnibus drivers, on pp. 32-33 of a notebook presently to be described (L. C. No. 84), the name "Broadway Jack" occurs but not that of George Storms.
See Correspondence of Walt Whitman, ed. Edwin H. Miller (1961), I, 364 and 371, and II, 363-64 and 371-72.
These clippings are in the Trent Collection at Duke University. The wreck is correctly identified in the Comprehensive Reader's Edition of Leaves of Grass (1965), pp. 66-67, note.
Published originally in the New York Evening Post for August 14, 1851; reprinted in Uncollected Prose and Poetry, I, 255-59.
As well as I could, for the writing is dim, I checked these notes with those published in R. M. Bucke's Notes and Fragments, and I am satisfied they are not the same. See Complete Writings, IX, 214-15; X, 8-9.
By Furness in Walt Whitman's Work-shop (1928), pp. 50-51, and by me in Walt Whitman: Representative Selections (1934) in the notes to "Song of the Rolling Earth," p. 459. I did not at the time of transcribing this note identity the notebook and neither does Furness. I think it possible that it was not in a notebook but in a separate manuscript sheet. There were many such in the Library in 1934, several of them sometimes stuck together with pins.
This is not included in Walt Whitman's Workshop, but it is in my notes to "Song of the Rolling Earth" exactly as quoted above except that "full sized" is written as one word, not two. The poem was first published in 1856. The peculiar use of a string of periods instead of punction suggests the style of the Preface to the 1855 edition.
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