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poem (subject)

  • Whitman Archive Title: poem (subject)
  • Whitman Archive ID: duk.00047
  • Repository ID: MS 18
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
  • Date: about 1873
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 3 leaves, handwritten
  • View Images: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
  • Content: Notes for a poem about calls used in various occupations and, on the reverse of the second leaf, an early draft of a portion of "Song of the Redwood-Tree," a poem first published in the February 1874 issue of Harper's Magazine and reprinted in the "Centennial Songs" section of Two Rivulets (1876). Verso images are not available for the first and third leaves.

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