Studies
Papers on how Whitman’s books were made. Each source is cited in its notes.
Whitman’s flowers
Where the twelve ornaments of Whitman’s 1860 Leaves of Grass come from in the book, and how stanza drew them.
How Whitman made his books
Walt Whitman’s role in the physical production of Leaves of Grass, from 1855 to 1892, what he left to other printers and binders, and the processes they followed together.
Whitman’s Spellings
Which spellings in the first edition of Leaves of Grass, printed in 1855, were usual in Walt Whitman’s day, which were older forms still in use, which were his own, and which were slips, each beside a dictionary of his time.