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Abbreviations America James M.Whitfield, America and Other Poems (Buffalo, N.Y.: James S. Leavitt, 1853) LG Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891–92) LG55 Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (Brooklyn, N.Y.: n.p, 1855) LG56 Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (New York: Fowler and Wells, 1856) LG60 Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860) NUPM Walt Whitman, Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, 6 vols., ed. Edward F. Grier (New York: New York University Press, 1984) PW Walt Whitman, Prose Works, 1892, 2 vols., ed. Floyd Stovall (New York: New York University Press, 1963–64) Ridge John R[ollin] Ridge, Poems (San Francisco: H. Payot & Co., 1868) Snow Eliza R Snow, Poems: Religious, Historical, and Political, vol. 1 (Liverpool: F. D. Richards, 1856) WWC Horace Traubel,With Walt Whitman in Camden, vol. 1 (Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906); vols. 2–3 (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961); vol. 4 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1953); vols. 5–7 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1964–92); vols. 8–9 (Oregon House, C.A.: W. L. Bentley, 1996) This page intentionally left blank ...

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