Walt Whitman's Caution | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: Walt Whitman's Caution
Whitman Archive ID: amh.00009
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in the Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection, Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library, Amherst College
Date: between 1856 and 1860
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, handwritten
View Images: 1 | 2
Content: This is a draft of "Walt Whitman's Caution", a poem first appearing as one of the "Messenger Leaves" in Leaves of Grass (1860). The title of the poem was changed to "To the States" in the 1881–1882 edition of Leaves .