# Clement Clarke Moore — verse NOT in *Poems* (1844): manuscript and newspaper texts — MANIFEST

Companion to `../moore/` (the 1844 *Poems*). This directory holds Moore verse that is **not** in the 1844 book: his manuscript poems (chiefly the Poetry Manuscript Book at the Museum of the City of New York, MCNY 54.331.1, plus MCNY 54.331.4 and two loose valentines) as transcribed by Mary S. Van Deusen on henrylivingston.com, one manuscript poem transcribed by Scott Norsworthy (Melvilliana), and the 1824 Troy Sentinel text of the snow-storm poem (a variant witness of a poem that *is* in the 1844 book).

## Provenance warning

* Items 02 and 04-19 are **second-hand transcriptions from henrylivingston.com**, the pro-Livingston site run by Mary S. Van Deusen (a Livingston descendant and advocate of Henry Livingston's authorship of the *Visit*). They were fetched through the Wayback Machine (the site fails TLS directly) from captures of 2024-2025. The transcriptions have **not** been verified against the manuscripts or against any printed edition; no independent transcription of the MCNY notebook is known to me. Van Deusen states the notebook's accession as "Museum of the City of New York, Poetry Manuscript Book of Clement C. Moore, Accession Number: 54.331.1 (7662)" and gives notebook page numbers (recorded in each `source:` field). She silently normalises some spellings and marks others with `[MS ...]` notes (removed here; see item 15).
* Item 01 is Scott Norsworthy's transcription (Melvilliana, a pro-Moore blog) from a photocopy of the New-York Historical Society manuscript; item 03 is his transcription from the newspaper scan. Also unverified against the originals, but Norsworthy is a careful transcriber and, for item 03, prints a full collation against the 1844 text.
* Everything here is in Moore's hand (or, for item 03, was reprinted under his name by him in 1844), so `attribution: certain` throughout; but note that item 19 is a translation and item 03 is a variant of an 1844 poem.

## Conventions

* File header: `title, author, date, source, form, lines, attribution, notes`, blank line, poem. One verse line per line; blank line between stanzas / verse paragraphs as on the source page. Transcriber's spelling and punctuation kept (including her evident slips such as "sweest", "we boat"); MS headings, dates, signatures and notes moved into `notes:`; editorial brackets and `[MS ...]` readings removed (item 15); Moore's own footnote removed from the body (item 15).
* Representation follows `../moore/`: straight ASCII quotes and apostrophes (curly quotes in item 01 normalised), em dash U+2014 set closed.
* `lines` = non-blank verse lines (the six `Part N` headings of *Charles Elphinstone* are kept as lines but not counted); `words` = whitespace-separated tokens of the verse lines.
* Forms were scanned from several lines of each poem; "sestets (aabccb)" = two rhymed couplets each closed by a shorter (or longer) line.

## Files

| file | title | date | form | lines | words | source URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| `01_biography_of_the_heart.txt` | Biography of the Heart of Clement C. Moore | c. 1813 | iambic tetrameter couplets | 152 | 979 | https://melvilliana.blogspot.com/2017/01/biography-of-heart-of-clement-c-moore.html |
| `02_from_saint_nicholas.txt` | From Saint Nicholas | c. 1821-1822 | anapestic tetrameter couplets | 23 | 214 | https://web.archive.org/web/2024/https://www.henrylivingston.com/xmas/livingstonmoore/moorefromstnicholas.htm |
| `03_lines_written_after_a_snow_storm_1824.txt` | [Lines Written after a Snow-Storm] (Troy Sentinel 1824) | 1824 | iambic tetrameter/trimeter (common measure) | 32 | 187 | https://melvilliana.blogspot.com/2019/04/lines-written-after-snow-storm-by.html |
| `04_a_valentine_1843.txt` | A Valentine | 1843 | iambic tetrameter/trimeter sestets (aabccb) | 48 | 269 | https://web.archive.org/web/2024/https://www.henrylivingston.com/xmas/livingstonmoore/moorevalentine-mss.htm |
| `05_for_catharines_album.txt` | For Catharine's Album | 1843 | iambic tetrameter quatrains (abab) | 24 | 149 | https://web.archive.org/web/2024/https://www.henrylivingston.com/xmas/livingstonmoore/mooreforcatharinesalbum.htm |
| `06_irish_valentine.txt` | Irish Valentine | 1844 | anapestic tetrameter/trimeter quatrains (abab) | 68 | 590 | https://web.archive.org/web/2024/https://www.henrylivingston.com/xmas/livingstonmoore/mooreirishvalentine.htm |
| `07_west_point.txt` | West-Point | 1844 | iambic tetrameter/pentameter sestets (aabccb) | 72 | 486 | https://web.archive.org/web/2024/https://www.henrylivingston.com/xmas/livingstonmoore/moorewestpoint.htm |
| `08_for_carolines_album.txt` | For Caroline's Album | 1845 | iambic pentameter quatrains (abab) | 24 | 182 | https://web.archive.org/web/2024/https://www.henrylivingston.com/xmas/livingstonmoore/mooreforcarolinesalbum.htm |
| `09_for_a_kiss.txt` | For a Kiss | 1846 | anapestic tetrameter couplets | 20 | 198 | https://web.archive.org/web/2024/https://www.henrylivingston.com/xmas/livingstonmoore/mooreforakiss.htm |
| `10_theresas_flower.txt` | Theresa's Flower | 1846 | iambic tetrameter/trimeter sestets (aabccb) | 24 | 147 | https://web.archive.org/web/2024/https://www.henrylivingston.com/xmas/livingstonmoore/mooretheresasflower.htm |
| `11_jeannettes_new_years_poem.txt` | Jeannette's New Year's Poem | 1848 | iambic pentameter quatrains (abab) | 60 | 465 | https://web.archive.org/web/2024/https://www.henrylivingston.com/xmas/livingstonmoore/moorejeannettesnewyearspoem.htm |
| `12_to_eliza_in_england.txt` | To Eliza, in England | 1849 | iambic tetrameter couplets | 40 | 273 | https://web.archive.org/web/2024/https://www.henrylivingston.com/xmas/livingstonmoore/mooreelizainengland.htm |
| `13_margaret.txt` | Margaret | 1851 | iambic tetrameter quatrains (abab) | 24 | 155 | https://web.archive.org/web/2024/https://www.henrylivingston.com/xmas/livingstonmoore/mooremargaret.htm |
| `14_for_a_basket_of_flowers.txt` | For a Basket of Flowers | 1851 | iambic pentameter quatrains (abab) | 32 | 262 | https://web.archive.org/web/2024/https://www.henrylivingston.com/xmas/livingstonmoore/mooreforabasketofflowers.htm |
| `15_charles_elphinstone.txt` | Charles Elphinstone | 1851 | iambic pentameter (blank verse) | 1804 | 13703 | https://web.archive.org/web/2024/https://www.henrylivingston.com/xmas/livingstonmoore/moorecharleselphinstone.htm |
| `16_the_beach_at_newport.txt` | A Morning on the Beach at Newport | 1852 | iambic pentameter quatrains (abab) | 40 | 309 | https://web.archive.org/web/2024/https://www.henrylivingston.com/xmas/livingstonmoore/moorenewportbeach.htm |
| `17_valentine_for_fanny_french.txt` | Valentine for Fanny French | 1852 | iambic tetrameter/trimeter (common measure, abab) | 24 | 136 | https://web.archive.org/web/2024/https://www.henrylivingston.com/xmas/livingstonmoore/moorefannysvalentine.htm |
| `18_to_little_clem.txt` | To Little Clem, from a Little Girl | c. 1852 | iambic tetrameter quatrains (abab) | 16 | 103 | https://web.archive.org/web/2024/https://www.henrylivingston.com/xmas/livingstonmoore/mooretolittleclem.htm |
| `19_petrarchs_sonnet.txt` | Petrarch's Sonnet (translation) | c. 1852 | iambic pentameter sonnet | 14 | 107 | https://web.archive.org/web/2024/https://www.henrylivingston.com/xmas/livingstonmoore/moorepetrarchssonnet.htm |

**Totals (all 19 files): 2541 lines, 18914 words.**  
**Totals excluding the 1824 snow-storm variant (03) and the Petrarch translation (19): 2495 lines, 18620 words** (16 original poems + Biography).  
Of these, *Charles Elphinstone* alone is 1804 lines / 13703 words (blank verse); the remaining original poems total 691 lines / 4917 words.  
Anapestic items (the metrically relevant comparanda for the *Visit*): 02 From Saint Nicholas, 06 Irish Valentine, 09 For a Kiss = 111 lines / 1002 words.

## Notes on coverage

* **henrylivingston.com Moore section** (`/xmas/livingstonmoore/`, index `allmoorepoetry.htm` and `mooreindex.htm`): the site lists 4 "Loose Poems" (Old Santeclaus, From St. Nicholas, Valentine for Fanny, To Little Clem), the 1844 *Poems*, and 14 "Manuscript Book" poems (notebook pp. 1-125). All 14 notebook poems and 3 of the 4 loose poems are here. The site's dates and line counts (given on `allmoorepoetry.htm`) agree with these files except as noted under item 15.
* **Not included, by design**: *Old Santeclaus* (1821 broadside "The Children's Friend"; anonymous, attributed to Moore only by Don Foster — attribution not secure, so it fails the "secure attribution" test; the site's transcription is at `mooresanteclaus.htm` if wanted). *On seeing my name written in the sand* ("Sand") and *Old Dobbin* are in fact in the 1844 *Poems* (TOC items 7 and 12; see `../moore/07_...` and `../moore/12_...`) and are therefore skipped. *A Trip to Saratoga*: in the book, skipped. Moore's "Prometheus" (Port Folio, 4 May 1805, over the pseudonym "Hermes"; Melvilliana 17 Feb. 2017) is the book's *Translation of a chorus in Aeschylus* in an earlier state — skipped as an in-book translation (variant witness only). Norsworthy's posts also print the 1805 Evening Post text of *Lines written after a Season of Yellow Fever* ("Congratulatory Lines", 27 Nov. 1805) and the Evening Post text of *To Petrosa*, both in-book poems — not collected here (variant witnesses; could be added to `../moore/` if newspaper states are wanted). Poems in Hoffman's *New-York Book of Poetry* (1837) are in `../moore/hoffman_1837/`.
* **Jackson's Moore corpus / held-back texts.** The site's "Mac Jackson's Databases" pages (`/data/index.htm`, `/data/favoredphonemes/moore/`, `/data/poemphonemes/moore/`) show the poem files supplied to Jackson: the 1844 poems plus `moorefromstnicholas`, `moorefannysvalentine`/`mooretofanny` and `mooretoclem` (Moore phoneme set: 2,750 lines, 19,887 words). The MCNY notebook poems (items 04-16, 19) are **not** in those data sets, which is consistent with Jackson's reported use of them as held-back test texts; I could not open Jackson's book (Google Books/HathiTrust blocked) to confirm his exact list of 47 poems, and no page on the site enumerates "47 poems" as such. Treat the `notes:` remarks on Jackson as inferences from the site's data directory, not as citations of Jackson.
* **Newspaper printings under Moore's name in his lifetime, not in the 1844 book**: none found beyond the items above. (Melvilliana's "Pre-1844 attributions" and later posts concern the *Visit* itself.)

## Problems

* Wayback gaps: the site's per-page notebook transcriptions (`page095-valentine.htm` … `page125-petrarchssonnet.htm`), the seven `moorecharleselphinstone-part1..7.htm` sub-pages, `mooretoclem.htm`, `mooretofanny.htm` and `mooredaughtersnow.htm` appear in the CDX index but have **no 200-status captures** (only 404/redirect captures), so they could not be fetched. Nothing was lost: the single-page `moorecharleselphinstone.htm` holds the complete poem, and `mooretolittleclem.htm` / `moorefannysvalentine.htm` hold the two valentines. `xmas/cusum/index.htm` also 404s.
* *Charles Elphinstone* (15): the site says 1806 lines; this file has 1804 verse lines after removing the footnote and not counting the 6 part headings — the 2-line difference is unexplained (probably the site counted headings or a split line). The transcription carries Van Deusen's modernising emendations; the manuscript spellings she flags are listed in the file's `notes:`; a raw copy with all `[MS ...]` notes is not included in this folder. A few lines look corrupt in the transcription (e.g. "Two joyous cherubs greeted her - they were her own." as the closing line has six feet).
* *Irish Valentine* (06): the signature "Pat." is set on its own line by the transcriber; joined here to the final verse line (it supplies the rhyme). *West-Point* (07): closing date line removed. Items 17-18: MS headings removed from the body (quoted in `notes:`).
* *For a Basket of Flowers* (14), line 3 is a foot short as transcribed; *Jeannette* (11) "we boat" (for "boast"?) and *Fanny* (17) "sweest" (for "sweetest") look like transcription slips — left as found.
* Dates: *For Catharine's Album* — site page title says Aug 1846 but the MS heading and the site's list say Feb. 1843 (1843 used). *To Little Clem* and *Petrarch's Sonnet* are undated (c. 1852 assigned from context/notebook position). *Biography of the Heart* is dated only by a later archival note ("probably 1813").
* Repositories for the two loose valentines (17, 18) are not stated on the site (MCNY presumed, but unverified). Item 02 is MCNY doc. 54.331.4 per the site.
* *Lines written after a Snow-Storm* (03): the 1824 newspaper text is unsigned; the blog sets each line as a separate paragraph, so the quatrain breaks here are editorial (they match the 1844 stanzas). Do not count it alongside `../moore/05_...` in Moore totals.
* Nothing in this directory has been checked against the manuscripts; word-level reliability is that of the two transcribers.