About this Item

Title: Europe Laplanders

Creator: Walt Whitman

Date: Between 1850 and 1856

Whitman Archive ID: duk.00884

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

Editorial note: Many of the items from this list of European rivers, lakes, and cities were included in "Poem of Salutation" in the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass, suggesting that this manuscript was written between 1850 and 1856. At one point, this manuscipt likely formed part of Whitman's cultural geography scrapbook.

Related item: A poetry manuscript on the back of this leaf likely contributed to lines in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. See duk.00029.