These roman numbered "fair-copy" manuscripts from the Valentine-Barrett collection were originally named "Live Oak with Moss," and were later renamed "Calamus-Leaves."

Fredson Bowers writes: "It is clear that these leaves originally formed part of a notebook in which the poems were written on the rectos continuously in the order indicated by their roman numbers. The normal vertical measurement of a full leaf is about 5 3/4 inches. The part leaves can be fitted together by their contours to reconstruct the notebook as follows:" (Bowers lxv)

Notebook Wrapper, NYPL Berg Collection

Notebook Leaf (click number for page image)	Poem Roman Number	MS Folliation	1860 Poem Number
1	I	1	14
2-3	II	2-3	20
4-5	III	4-5	11
6	IV	6	23
7-8	V	7-8	8
9	V (concluded)	8 1/2	8, 32
	VI (upper half of MS leaf made from two pasted together pieces)
10	VI (lower half MS leaf 9)	9	32
	VII (half-leaf)		10
11	VII	10	10
12	VII (concluded: pasted below full leaf to make complete MS leaf 12) IX (half leaf)		10
13	VIII	12	9
14	VIII (concluded: pasted below full leaf to make complete MS leaf 12( IX (half-leaf)		9, 34
15	X	14	43
16	XI	15	36
17	XII	16	42