About this Item

Title: Are the prostitutes nothing

Creator: Walt Whitman

Date: Between 1850 and 1855

Whitman Archive ID: duk.00889

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

Editorial note: This manuscript was probably written between 1850 and 1855 when Whitman was composing his first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass. It includes a draft of a line from the third poem in that edition, eventually titled "To Think of Time."

Related item: On the back of this leaf is a partial draft of the final poem in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, ultimately titled "Great Are the Myths." See duk.00032.