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Literary Manuscripts

Integrated Catalog of Walt Whitman's Literary Manuscripts

Recorders Ages Hence

  • Whitman Archive Title: In a poem make the
  • Whitman Archive ID: duk.00278
  • Repository ID: MS q 29
  • Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
  • Date: before 1860
  • Genre: poetry
  • Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
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  • Content: Note for a poem to address the question "What will be the result of this years hence?" The note is possibly related to the poem "Recorders Ages Hence," first published in Leaves of Grass (1860) as "Calamus 10," and taking its final title in 1867. This scrap has been attached by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with "And there," "'The Scout'," and "Drops of my Blood."

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