About this Item

Title: Citizens took by mutual agreement

Creator: Walt Whitman

Date: Between 1853 and 1855

Whitman Archive ID: loc.05704

Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 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: This manuscript has no known relation to Whitman's published work. The leaf originally was part of a larger notebook, "The regular old followers," that probably dates to between 1853 and 1855.

Related items: The cancelled lines on the back of this manuscript leaf were used in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. The leaf originally formed part of a larger notebook. We have made composite images that show the continuation of the text on this leaf with text on the notebook leaf from which it was cut, and the manuscripts have been transcribed in separate files. See loc.05705 and loc.00024.