About this Item

Title: In a poem make the thought

Creator: Walt Whitman

Date: Before 1860

Whitman Archive ID: duk.00278

Source: Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Transcribed from digital images of the original. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.

Editorial note: Based on the handwriting, Edward Grier dates this manuscript scrap to before 1860 (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 4:1336). It is possible that the manuscript is related to the poem that would later be titled "Recorders Ages Hence," first published as "Calamus 10" in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.